Excerpt from Botany for Beginners
It is now generally accepted by educationists that experimental work is an essential part of instruction in any branch of physical or natural science. Too much importance cannot be attached to knowledge gained direct from Nature; and it is gratifying to know that many questions now set by public examining bodies are designed to test the student's own observations and experience. As an instance of this, it is worth pointing out that in the syllabus for Botany, published by the Department of Science and Art, the examiners remark: -
"The examination will be especially directed towards ascertaining the amount and character of the practically acquired knowledge possessed by the students."
To provide students with a means of obtaining such knowledge, this little work has been prepared in the spirit of the foregoing remarks, as a guide to beginners in the practical study of plants. The attempt is often made to study Botany without the practical examination of plants, and it has produced on the popular mind an impression that the subject is uninteresting. This is the result of the old method of teaching Botany by means of ideals or definitions; the new method is to examine the plants from as many points of view as possible, and to draw conclusions from actual observations. Studied in this way, the subject becomes one of living interest, instead of being merely a collection of technical names and terms. It is with the idea of placing in the hands of all who are interested in the study of plants a book which shall be a guide and companion during a first course that the present volume has been prepared.
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