BOTANY FOR YOUNG PEOPLE. 
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In the First Part of this book we proceed to consider, under four principal 
heads or chapters, — 
I. How Plants Grow, and what their Parts or Organs are, 
Chapter I. Page 5. 
The Parts of a Plant, 
Section I. Page 5. 
How Plants grow from the Seed, 
“ II. “ 10. 
How Plants grow Year after Year, 
“ III. « 23. 
Different Forms or Kinds of Roots, Stems, and Leaves, 
“ IV. “ 34. 
II. How Plants are Propagated or Multiplied in Numbers, 
Chapter II. Page 56. 
How Propagated from Bads, 
Section I. Page 56. 
How Propagated by Seeds, 
“ II. “ 58. 
Flowers : their Arrangement, their Sorts, &c., 
“ III. « 58. 
Fruit and Seed, 
" IV. “ 77. 
III. Why Plants Grow; what they are made for, and what 
they do, 
IV. How Plants are Classified, Named, and Studied, 
Classification, — as to the Plan of it, 
Names of Plants, 
The Natural System of Classification in Botany, 
How to study Plants by the Flora, in Part II., 
Chapter III. Page 85. 
Chapter IV. Page 93. 
Section I. Page 93. 
“ II. “ 94. 
“ III. “ 96. 
“ IV. “ 99. 
The Second Part of the book consists of a Popular Flora for Beginners, viz. 
a Classification and Description (according to the Natural System) of the Common 
Plants of the country, both Wild and Cultivated. 
Then follows a Dictionary of the peculiar terms which we have occasion to use 
in describing plants, or their parts, combined with a full Index to Part I. Every 
science, and every art or occupation, has terms or technical words of its own, and 
must have them. Without them, all would be confusion and guess-work. In Bot¬ 
any the number of technical words which a young student need to know is by no 
means great, and a little diligent study and practice will make them familiar. 
The first and most important thing for the student is, to know well the general 
plan of a plant and the way it grows; the parts plants consist of; the uses of the sev¬ 
eral parts; their general forms, and the names which are used to distinguish them. 
This is all very interesting and very useful in itself; and it is indispensable for study¬ 
ing plants with any satisfaction or advantage to find out their names, their proper¬ 
ties, and the family they belong to; i. e. to ascertain the kinds of plants. 
