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Excerpt from Second Book of Botany: A Practical Guide to the Observation and Study of Plants
In the preface to the First Book, and in an Essay reprinted at the end of the present volume, I have stated the purpose that led to these publications: the present extension of the method affords a suitable occasion for presenting some further considerations in illustration of it. I had two objects in view, one relating to the subject of Botany, and the other to the mental cultivation of the young.
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