INTRODUCTION. 
CHAPTER I. 
Advantages of the Study of Botany.* 
1. You are now about to commence a study which was for- 
merly thought too difficult for children, but which is, in reality, 
much easier than many to which they usually attend. 
2. In Grammar, you can have no assistance from maps or 
pictures,—every thing in this science depends on the powers of 
the understanding; and it affords no pleasant objects to delight 
the eye. But Grammar is a very useful study, and should 
be pursued while you are young; and other studies, especially 
the one you are about to commence, will help you to understand 
it. 
3. Geography is easier than Grammar, because you may have 
maps or pictures of countries before you, and the eye impresses 
on the mind the relative situation of places, the direction of 
mountains, the course of rivers, &c.—but if, instead of maps, 
you could have the countries themselves before you, to examine 
with your eyes and hands, if you could see the people who live 
in them standing before you, how much deeper would be your 
impressions of Geography ! 
4, Youare now to study Botany ; here the objects about which 
you are to learn, will be placed before you, to see, to touch, and 
to smell. Thus three of your senses will be called upon to aid 
the memory and understanding ; and as flowers are objects of 
much beauty and interest, your imagination also may be grati- 
fied. 
5. Your emotions, too, will be warmed by the thought of His 
tove and kindness who causeth the earth to bring forth, not only 
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* Nors.—It is important, for the teacher to ask the pupils to give 
the heads of the chapters, either at the commencement or close of the 
lesson. 
1. What is said of the study you are about to commence ? 
2, What is said of the study of Grammar 2? 
3. What renders Geography an easier study than Grammar ? 
4, Are the objects about which you study in Botany manifested to 
the senses 2 
5, What effect has the contemplation of flowers upon the emotions ? 
