Excerpt from College Botany: Structure, Physiology and Economics of Plants
This work is the outgrowth of the author's class work and is an effort to meet present conditions. It is an effort to present as many different phases of the subject as possible and to give the student a very general and very broad view. It is an effort to meet the criticisms that botany, as taught in recent years, is unsatisfactory and unsuited to the needs of the student, and to meet the demands for applied botany by making a combination of the elementary principles of pure and applied science. Or, rather, to present the fundamental principles of botany and at the same time give some idea of the lines of application of the subject, which are to be taken up in more advanced courses.
The book is intended as a guide for the student, but it is expected that the teacher will expand, reduce or modify such parts as may be necessary to meet conditions or as may be necessary to meet his or her ideas of the best method of presenting the subject. Neither the teacher nor the student should be a slave to a text-book of any kind. Books are the records of the work of others and methods for the guidance of the students, but there is no botany in the book; the study of botany is the study of plants.
The book is not complete; it is intended as an introduction, which must be expanded in more advanced courses which may be adjusted and planned to meet the students needs. However, it is hoped that it will give a broad viewpoint to those who wish to take up the advanced study of the subject, and that those who do not expect to continue the subject will learn to appreciate its importance.
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