8 INTRODUCTION. 
kind of common flowut,) that you can find in the fields—in the 
mean time, here is a ‘%otany for Beginners’ which I will lend 
you to look over, and exrry home for your parents to examine; 
—should they approve of i, I should like to have them furnish 
yeu with the book, that you may commence the study immedi- 
ately.” 
But it may be said, “there are many teachers who are not 
capable of giving a lecture up. Botany.” It is expected that 
many will use this book, whe have never heard a lecture upon 
the subject; but every teacher who is in any degree fit to be 
such, can learn as much of the science from the work as will 
enable him to understand its leading principles; and he can 
explain them to his pupils: this will be lecturing upon botany. 
With respect to the questions that accompany the Book, they 
are added for the use of young and inexperienced Teachers: 
others are not in general confined to any set of questions :— 
The great object in view is that the pupil shall understand the 
subject; an ingenious teacher will, with every recitation, vary 
his manner of questioning, in order to ascertain this. 
In reciting from this book, the yupil should be taught to vary 
the pronoun from the second to the first person. For instance, 
in the beginning of Chapter I., when the teacher asks “ what 
is said of the study you are about to commence ?’’—the pupil 
should answer, ‘‘We are now about to commence a study,” 
&c. This little exercise, trifling as it may seem, will of itself 
be useful, by leading the pupil to consider the sense of what he 
says, and occasionally to make other variations in the phraseo- 
logy of the book. 
Hor more particular directions for teaching Botany, the au- 
thor would refer Instructors to her Familiar Lectures, pages 6th 
and 7th of the 4th edition. Suffice it to say here, that when 
flowers can be obtained, their examination should make a part 
of each exercise. In winter, when the analysis of plants mu 
pe suspended, the pupil may study with profit, the chapters 
which treat of the parts of plants, as the root, stem, leaf, &c | 
germination of the seed, &c. and the explanation of Botanica 
cerms. 
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