nds of life; or rather, that the word
_life_ is used to express two ideas; vegetable life, and animal life.

(July, 1797.) Miss Louisa ---- told us, that when a rose bud begins to
wither, if you burn the end of the stalk, and plunge it red hot into
water, the rose will be found revived the next day; and by a
repetition of this burning, the lives of flowers may be fortunately
prolonged many days. Miss Louisa ---- had seen many surprising
recoveries performed by this operation, and several of her friends had
adopted the practice with uniform success.

We determined to repeat the experiment. Children should never take any
thing upon trust which they can verify. Two roses, gathered at the
same time, from the same tree, were put into separate glasses of
water. The stalk of one of these roses was burnt, according to
prescription; they were left a night in water, and the next day the
rose that had been burnt, appeared in much better health than that
which had not been burnt. The experiment was afterwards several times
repeated; and should be tried by others until the fact be fully
ascertained.

(July, 1797.) Little W---- (three years old) was shown Miss B----'s
beautiful copy of the Aurora surgens of Guido. The car of Apollo is
encircled by the dancing hours, so that its shape is not seen; part of
one wheel only is visible between the robes of the dancing figures. We
asked little W---- why that man (pointing to the figure of Apollo in
his invisible car) looked so much higher up in the air than the other
people?

_W----._ "Because he is in a carriage; he is sitting in a carriage."

We pointed to the imperfect wheel, and asked if he knew what that was?
He immediately answered, "Yes, the wheel of the carriage." We wanted
to see whether the imagination of a child of three years old, would
supply the invisible parts of the _car_: and whether the wheel and
horses, and man holding the reins, would suggest the idea of a phaeton.
(V. Chapter on Taste and Imagination.)

We shall not trespass upon the reader's patience with any more
anecdotes from the nursery. We hope, that candid and intelligent
parents will pardon, if they have discovered any desire in us to
_exhibit_ our pupils. We may mistake our own motives, and we do not
pretend to be perfectly impartial judges upon this occasion; but we
have hoped, that only such conversations or anecdotes have been
produced, as may be of some use in Practical Education. From
conversation,