Excerpt from Botany
In writing this little introduction to the study of a plant I have endeavoured especially to present it to the reader as a living organism. Botany is now regarded as a branch of biology, and is not satisfactorily studied by gathering plants and, after ascertaining their names and the natural orders to which they belong, drying them and putting them away in a cabinet. I have tried to present them as they are engaged in the struggle for existence, and to call my readers" attention not only to their form and structure but especially to what they do in life, and why and how they do it.
I hope that those who study them by the assistance of this little primer will try to have the living plant under observation while they read it. I have not written any detailed scheme of laboratory work, but I hope my readers will be able to construct such a scheme for themselves as they follow the directions for study given in the text.
I should like to suggest that students should read the Chemistry primer first, to gain some acquaintance with the phenomena underlying the processes of construction and decomposition going on in the plant. It would be well to read the Biology primer also before beginning Botany.
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