Excerpt from The Teaching Botanist: A Manual of Information Upon Botanical Instruction; Together With Outlines and Directions for a Comprehensive Elementary Course IT may appear at first sight that the title of this work is of wider scope than its contents. Addressed broadly to the teaching botanist, and professing to serve as a manual of information upon botanical instruction, it nevertheless deals chiefly with one phase of botanical teaching; namely, with its elementary presentation as a science. Yet in this it represents the actual condition of the problems in botanical teaching at the present day. On the one hand, our university and advanced college teaching, carried on as investigation or in that spirit, represents a well-nigh ideal relation of teacher to student; and on the other, the botanical part of nature study in the lower schools has hardly yet begun to attract the attention it deserves. It is just between these two, between advanced college and lower school work, that is, in elementary courses in Botany treated as a science, whether in high school or college, that the present problems lie. Here is the real centre of discus sion, effort, and advance in botanical teaching to-day. This part of botanical teaching is now in a state of wonderfully rapid expansion and transition. Three causes are contributing to this result: first, the natural reaction from its former extreme backwardness second, a widening recognition of the value of the sciences, of which Botany is a leading one, in general education. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Charles Kovacs characterizes different plants, from fungi, algae and lichens, to the lily and rose families. He describes the parts of each plant and their growth cycle. It is recommended for Steiner-Waldorf curriculum Classes 5 and 6 (age 10-12).