
          would cost two shillings or a [sistrian?], headed
with the name of [crossed out: the] [added: each] month with a column of
the days on the left, and having the names of 
all plants, which they are to expect to find in
flower, set against the respective days. We do every
thing after experience has announced it necessity;
and such a book has [added: become] almost indispensable.

You see we do not calculate to push the
Sciences ahead. But we intend to make [added: for] ourselves
Scientific companions. We study to bring down
the Leviathan to the level of lapdogs; and
to persuade our girls and boys to throw away
lapdogs and whistles and to adopt the play-things
of Mitchell, Torrey, Townsend, Rineveh,
Pierce, Mc Neven, Schaeffron, Cooper &c [etc.] as such
[?]. I think I shall prefix to the little
book some simple directions about teaching.
We shall probably give a nice naked list of names
and [plans?] of growth. This will leave room for a
more extensive list, than was at first contemplated.
We shall probably take in the N. York
plants and all to the north, where we can be
accurate about the place of growth and time of flowering.
By place of growth I do not mean localities; I
mean wet, dry, meadows, pasture &c[etc.] so that
students may know when and where they are
to expect to find a plant., or rather, what
plant they ought to look for to-day, [added: &] in what
situations they are to expect to find it.

Now I am going down to breakfast, then after
minerals.
        