Excerpt from First Lessons in Botany
I have written the following pages for children. 1 have used the child's language, so far as was practicable, and have endeavored to dispense, in a great measure, with the technical terms of Botany. It is far from niv wish to make great scholars of little boys and girls. I have aimed in this book merely to give the young student such a knowledge of Botany as is adapted to his years. Some may wonder Why I did not unlock another door or two for my little friends. I can only say, in regard to the matter, that I found it necessary to stop somewhere. I could not show them the whole building; and I had to choose, not between a smal'
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