
          Somewhere you have said, I think,
that the Lin. Method only enables one to
know plants, to distinguish the species.
How much more does your Bot. or the Nat.
System do? It gives the associations of some
plants, or your view of them, & that association
if fine, often correct, perhaps always,
(but if so, that of others is not), of what general
use is this difference, when it tells you
of no common properties, nor how to find
or expect to find them, from the descriptions,
botanical. I do not object to the
method; but I ask, how much stronger
is the [?] in respect to the Lin.
than the other.

Besides, who will
go to this minute structure for characters.
There must be a reliance upon a few botanists,
for the facts, & much of the structural
Bot. must be occult to most of the teachers
in academies & schools, & [?]. be
confined to the learned. How can it be
otherwise? And though you, & some more,
could teach it in the Schools, as Mrs.
Willards, will will these teach it,
or be fit to teach it.
        