The Asa Gray Bulletin Volume 6-8 (Paperback)


This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899 Excerpt: ...sums of money are often spent in the endeavor to grow tender exotics, while much more satisfaction could frequently be gotten from plants of our own woods and meadows. Wild flower gardens can be made to add much to the attractiveness of the school yard, and at the same time furnish the children with a never-failing source of amusement and profitable study. With a little tact and encouragement on the part of the teacher the boys and girls can be induced to plant and care for such gardens, and will take a pride in the schoolhouse and grounds hardly possible otherwise. These gardens can be made particularly valuable to the rural school, where it is certainly of extreme importance that the pupils should learn to know plants and their habits and needs, but where all too often plants are seldom mentioned, much less studied or discussed in an attractive way. Among the many botanical works that have appeared during the last five years designed more particularly for the secondary schools, that by Professor Atkinson of Cornell University is one of the best. Throughout it is permeated with the breath of the field, meadow and brookside, and the teacher who can not Elfmcntary Botany, by George Francis Atkinson, Ph. B. Publishers, Henry Ho t & Co, New York. with such a book as a text make his pupils feel that botany is an intensely interesting study, more than the mere "analysis of a few plants and the memorizing of a lot of long names" has certainly missed his calling. Although all may not agree with Professor Atkinson in the sequence in which the various subjects should be presented, all must agree that he has presented them in a very attractive manner, which after all is of greater importance. It is most refreshing to have a text book replete with new il...

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899 Excerpt: ...sums of money are often spent in the endeavor to grow tender exotics, while much more satisfaction could frequently be gotten from plants of our own woods and meadows. Wild flower gardens can be made to add much to the attractiveness of the school yard, and at the same time furnish the children with a never-failing source of amusement and profitable study. With a little tact and encouragement on the part of the teacher the boys and girls can be induced to plant and care for such gardens, and will take a pride in the schoolhouse and grounds hardly possible otherwise. These gardens can be made particularly valuable to the rural school, where it is certainly of extreme importance that the pupils should learn to know plants and their habits and needs, but where all too often plants are seldom mentioned, much less studied or discussed in an attractive way. Among the many botanical works that have appeared during the last five years designed more particularly for the secondary schools, that by Professor Atkinson of Cornell University is one of the best. Throughout it is permeated with the breath of the field, meadow and brookside, and the teacher who can not Elfmcntary Botany, by George Francis Atkinson, Ph. B. Publishers, Henry Ho t & Co, New York. with such a book as a text make his pupils feel that botany is an intensely interesting study, more than the mere "analysis of a few plants and the memorizing of a lot of long names" has certainly missed his calling. Although all may not agree with Professor Atkinson in the sequence in which the various subjects should be presented, all must agree that he has presented them in a very attractive manner, which after all is of greater importance. It is most refreshing to have a text book replete with new il...

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May 2012

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July 2010

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246 x 189 x 4mm (L x W x T)

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Paperback - Trade

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68

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978-1-154-54895-2

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9781154548952

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1-154-54895-3



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