"This book is made for the pupil: 'Lessons With Plants' was made to
supplement the work of the teacher." This is the opening sentence of the
preface, showing that the book is a companion to "Lessons With Plants,"
which has now become a standard teacher's book. The present book is the
handsomest elementary botanical text-book yet made. The illustrations
illustrate. They are artistic. The old formal and unnatural Botany is
being rapidly outgrown. The book disparages mere laboratory work of the
old kind: the pupil is taught to see things as they grow and behave. The
pupil who goes through this book will understand the meaning of the
plants which he sees day by day. It is a revolt from the dry-as-dust
teaching of botany. It cares little for science for science's sake, but
its point of view is nature-study in its best sense. The book is divided
into four parts, any or all of which may be used in the school: the
plant itself; the plant in its environment; histology, or the minute
structure of plants; the kinds of plants (with a key, and descriptions
of 300 common species). The introduction contains advice to teachers.
The book is brand new from start to finish.
"An exceedingly attractive text-book."--_Educational Review._
"It is a school book of the modern methods."--_The Dial._
"It would be hard to find a better manual for schools or for
individual use."--_The Outlook._
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fruits, vegetables, flowers and ornamental plants known to be in the
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of presenting for the first time, in a carefully arranged and perfectly
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for such users of it a too advanced nomenclature would have
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given, there is little liability to serious perplexity. There
is a growing impatience with much of the controversy
concerning revision of names of organisms, whether of plants
or animals. Those investigators who are busied with the
ecological aspects of organisms, and also those who are
chiefly concerned with the application of plants to the arts
of agriculture, horticulture, and so on, care for the names of
organisms under examination only so far as these aid in
recognition and identification. To introduce unnecessary
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Transcriber's Note:
Extra, missing, or misprinted punctuation has been corrected without
note. Variation in hyphenation (e.g. house plants vs. house-plants), and
capitalization in some botanical names has been left as in the original.
In the ASCII version, the degree symbol has been replaced with "deg."
Hyphens have been added to numbers with fractions (e.g. one and one half
is 1-1/2), and hyphens indicating a range of heights were changed to the
word "to" in the following passages: grow 1 to 2-1/2 ft. high (p. 5);
Grow 1-1/2 to 2 ft. high (p. 52); should stand 1-1/2 to 2 ft. apart (p.
56); 1-1/2 to 2-1/2 ft. high (p. 74). Accents and ligatures have also
been removed.
The following changes were also made to the text:
p. 9: couservatory to conservatory
p. 12: Burridgianum to Burridgeanum (Cosmidium Burridgeanum)
p. 13: autumnale to autumnalis (Adonis autumnalis.)
p. 23: herbacous to herbaceous
p. 41: Beaume to Baume (26 deg. Baume)
p. 55: batchelor's to bachelor's (bachelor's buttons)
p. 56: Callirhoe to Callirrhoe
p. 89: rocommended to recommended (the treatment recommended for Crocus)
p. 122: establishd to established (when well established)
p. 132: 80, deg. to 80 deg., (begins to fall below 80 deg.,)
p. 133: witholding to withholding (gradually withholding water)
p. 207: seed to seeds (six seeds in each hill)
p. 233: ipomeas to ipomoeas and Ipomea to Ipomoea
p. 233: Cobea to Cobaea
Advertisements (end of book): science' to science's (science for
science's sake), and the repeated headings "WORKS BY PROFESSOR BAILEY"
removed.