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may make no mistake, and I have given the colour of 

 the flowers that you may exercise your own taste in 

 their arrangement. 



Christmas Rose Helleborus niger white 



Winter Cyclamen Cyclamen coum white with red 



Winter Aconite Helleborus hyemalis yellow 



Snow Drop Galanthus nivalis white 



Spring Crocus Crocus vernus different colours 



Common Primrose Primula veris pale yellow 



Tower Mustard Arabis Siberica white 



{white and yellow, 

 with deep crimson 



Persian Iris Iris Persica 



Early Starry Hyacinth Scilla bifolia blue 



Hepatica Anemone Hepatica different colours 



Bulbous Fumatory Fumaria bulbosa white 

 Mezereon Daphne Mezereum a flowering shrub, 



red, and white 



This little parterre may have a border made with 

 the perennial Draba, whose little golden flowers will 

 appear at the same time. 



In composing this manual for your amusement 

 or instruction I take no credit to myself j I am indebted 

 to the works of the learned Dr. Smith, and to my 

 sincere friend at Abberley, for my slender stock of 

 knowledge ; but I ought not to forget Martyn's Virgil, 

 which first gave me the desire to study Botany. 



In presenting you with this little book I hope our 

 mutual esteem may not be diminished; for such is the 

 variable texture of the human mind, that while with 

 some, gifts cement esteem, with others they destroy 



