wh I) ADVANTAGES OF THE STUDY. ] 
ask your notice. If you know nothing of Botany, you may in- 
‘deed love to look at pretty flowers, and to pull them to pieces , 
but in this there is little amusement and no instruction. It is 
when your reason is brought into action in order to examine how 
these wonderful pieces of work are put together, and to trace 
their various properties and relations, that the notice of flowers 
yecomes important as a means of improvement. 
11. 5th. The study of Botany will teach you to be systematic 
in other things: you will find that men of science have so ar- 
ranged plants, that all, even dandelions, daisies, and thistles, 
have their exact places in the system of classification.—It is this 
exactness of arrangement which makes us able, amidst so vast 
a multitude of plants, to find the description of each one. If 
all the articles in a house were thrown together without order, 
you would be troubled to find a needle, a pair of scissors, a book, 
or an article of dress. But by means of system, a person who 
possesses a hundred thousand articles, may arrange them so that 
any one can be found at any moment. 
12. Asa house is divided into apartments, so in Botany the 
vegetable kingdom is divided into classes ; as each apartment 
contains sideboards, bureaus, closets, &c., for disposing of dif- 
ferent articles, so each class in Botany contains orders in which 
are arranged the individual plants. There are also subdivisions 
of orders in Botany, which may be considered as corresponding 
to the different drawers of bureaus, and shelves of closets, so 
that a Botanist is seldom obliged to look over a whole order be- 
fore he finds the particular plant which he seeks for. Now some 
children are very careless with respect to the arrangement of 
the clothes, books, and other articles, with which their kind 
friends provide them: it appears to me, that when they see how 
beautiful is the systematic arrangement of plants in Botany, 
they will at once resolve that every thing which belongs to 
them, or that they have the care of, shall be arranged according 
to some rule, so that they may always find what they want, 
without being obliged to make a long search for it. I could 
spend a great deal of time in telling you of the advantages ofa 
knowledge of Botany ; but it is better that you should proceed 
directly to the study, and then your own minds will suggest, to 
you many reasons why :t is to be classed among the most useful 
and interesting pranches of science. I will however mention 
oae farther recommendation of this study. 
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11. What fifthly ? 
12. How do the divisions of a house correspond to the divisions ir 
-Botanv 2? 
