Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from A Manual of Botany, for the Northern and Middle States of America: Containing Generic and Specific Descriptions of the Indigenous Plants and Common Cultivated Exotics, Growing North of Virginia; To Which Is Prefixed a Grammar and Vocabulary
In early life, before our external senses are completely evolved; when we are, in truth, endeavouring to bring them into exercise and use it has always appeared to me a very absurd practice in our schools, to occupy children with studies of an abstract nature, and which re quire faculties to comprehend them that are not yet unfolded.
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