THE STUDY OF BOTANY. 
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tention and tenderness, and often enticed her off the nest for exercise 
and immediately took her seat on the eggs until her return: the 
eggs, however, were not fertile either in this or any subsequent nest 
they had. During the following winter, I turned them into a room, 
in company with a number of male aud female canaries, female bull¬ 
finches, and other birds, yet in the following spring, the same birds 
paired again, or rather renewed their former covenant; I had, how¬ 
ever, no better success than in the preceding year, all the eggs being 
addled; and the year following, breaking up my breeding establish¬ 
ment, in consequence of leaving that neighbourhood, I had not the 
opportunity of trying them further, nor have I since been able to 
resume my experiments. The other bullfinch making no proficien¬ 
cy in music, I put a fine female canary into his cage, but although 
the season was very far advanced, he yet possessed so little gallantry, 
that, without any ceremony, he turned round, seized his mate by 
the throat, cast her on her back, and had I not come to her rescue, 
would doubtless, have been (instead of her lover) her actual murder¬ 
er. I turned other female canaries to him, but with no better result, 
even a female bullfinch, but he rejected all. 
O. B. Wareham. 
ARTICLE XV. 
THE STUDY OF THE SCIENCE OF BOTANY. 
BY F. F. ASHFORD. 
(Continued from Volume II, Page 25.) 
Vegetables are each primarily divisible into, 
1 The Root. 
2 The Herb or Plant itself. 
3 The Fructification. 
1 Radix, the root, is the lowermost part of a vegetable, situated 
within the ground, destined to draw nourishment from the soil for 
the production and support of all the other parts of the plant, it con¬ 
sists of two parts, viz. 
Caudex, the stock or body of the root which both ascends and 
descends. The 
