"Are you studying botany?"

She understood botany better than the great Chin-nong, who discovered in one day no less than seventy poisonous plants, and their seventy antidotes.

Where have you learned botany?

The girls of my day, I am afraid, gave up their botanies for their duties: it may be different now.

We hope that the appearance of this masterly little book, so finely adapted to the child's understanding, may have the effect of introducing botany into the common schools.

It is not strange that Charlton did not sleep that night, that he was a prey to conflicting emotions, blessing the cool, intellectual, self-possessed face of Miss Minorkey, who knew botany, and inwardly cursing the fate that had handed little Katy over to be the prey of such a man as Smith Westcott.

The doctor knew better; he had annotated Vaillant's botany himself, and it was not there.

My present and sole occupation is planting, in which I have made great progress and talked very learnedly with the nurserymen, except that now and then a lettuce run to seed overturns all my botany, as I have more than once taken it for a curious West Indian flowering shrub.

A great man does not wake up on some fine morning and say, 'I am full of life, I will go to sea and find an Antarctic continent: to-day I will square the circle: I will ransack botany and find a new food for man: I have a new architecture in my mind: I foresee a new mechanic power:' no, but he finds himself in the river of the thoughts and events, forced onward by the ideas and necessities of his contemporaries.

Something had been done respecting its botany, and the whole chain of events was ready to be linked together in a striking manner.

But in the afternoon I did not walk,I loitered; and though I still minded the birds and flowers, I for the most part forgot my botany and ornithology.

In the former, along with British and American professors are now two Indian women lecturers, Miss George, a Syrian Christian, who teaches history, and Miss Janaki, a Hindu, who teaches botany.

"This," he said aside to a friend, "is the young man who confounds all botany," and he took him rather reluctantly into his garden.