

SUGGESTIONS TO TEACHERS. 
Borany furnishes the most interesting, convenient, and diversified 
field for the study of nature. 
The teachers of the schools in our rural districts are especially favored 
in being surrounded by the objects for the practice of this pursuit. 
Every teacher should have some favorite study to occupy his leisure 
hours, and none can be more interesting and inviting for a resident in the 
country than Botany. 
The pursuit of any department of science will soon impress upon the 
learner the great importance of thorough investigation and minute ac- 
curacy. 
The teacher, especially, is benefited by the training it affords, he will 
not only come to see the necessity for accuracy in his investigations, but 
he will imperceptibly fall into the habit ef minute and clear description 
in imparting instruction. It will necessarily teach him to require verbal 
accuracy in recitations, the great secret of all successful instructors. He 
will be introduced, also, to other departments of knowledge as accessories. 
Let him so far pursue the study of Botany as to become interested in it, 
and he will become a frequent and delighted visiter within the portals of 
ether useful branches of science. 
DIRECTIONS FOR SECURING ASSISTANCE. 
As I am addressing teachers allow me to put these suggestions in the 
form of a familiar talk with an individual. 
Having provided yourself with suitable books* and apparatus, select 
from the catalogue ef living Botanists the name of a person with whom 
* As Floras, ‘“ Gray’s Manual” and ‘** Wood’s Botanist and Florist,’ are the best. 
Gray’s lessons should be carefully studied. The Key to the natural orders in ‘* Gray’s 
‘Field, Forest, and Garden Botany,” is the most simple. '1'o insure intelligent progress, 
careful attention should be given to structure. For this purpose “ Gray’s Structural 
Botany” should succeed the Lesgons. “‘Lindley’s Ladies’ Botany” is a good book 
for beginuers. 
