Excerpt from Botany for High Schools
This book is addressed to pupils in their first or second year in the high school. It assumes that Botany may be the first science they study, and that therefore it should provide plenty of individual work within their powers, and should give this work unity of effect and make it evidently worth while. In keeping with the modern scientific spirit, nutrition, reproduction, and relation to man are made the dominant aspects of the subject. What plants are is made to appear in terms of what they do. Structures and processes are then interpreted both from the plant's point of view and from man's. The problems set before the pupil call for definite and continued effort on his part, and for the independent interpretation of observations. The economic relations of plant life are noted as the study proceeds, and the concluding chapters are intended to leave the pupil with a general view of the larger general applications of the science.
Especial importance is given to the study of seeds and seedlings, the parts of the full-grown plant and the principal types or forms of the root, stem and leaf, including the work performed by these parts in providing food and water, building material, and food storage. Since the flower is an important structure designed for the purpose of facilitating seed production, with principal and subordinate organs for this work, especial interest is attached to a careful study of its parts and their structure. As the different kinds of flowers and the different modes of their association on the flower shoot are the result of the operation of natural laws, floral structures and groupings naturally indicate plant relationship.
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