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Presentation page 6 



Introduction 7 



Management of Plants in Rooms ... 11 



Ornamental Creepers for the open air 14 



GARDENS, WREATHS, «&c. 



Legends of Flowers, Lucy Hooper 15 



The Painted Cup, Bryant 18 



Flowers, Mrs. Sigoumey 19 



Song of the Last Violet, E. C. Em- 

 bury 22 



Lines to a Belle — For the Orchis, 



O.W.Holmes 23 



A Clump of Daisies 25 



Invocation to a Wreath of Trans- 

 Atlantic Flowers, Mrs. Balmanno 27 

 The Remonstrance of the Trans- 

 planted Flowers, E. C. Embury . . 29 

 The Consumptive, E. C. Embury . . 30 



To an Autumn Rose, Hoffman 32 



Invitation to Flowers, Barton 33 



Beauty and Fragrance of Flowers, 



Thomson 37 



Garden Lecture, Evans 38 



Garden Thoughts, Montgomery .... 41 



COLLECTION OF FLOWERS. 



Language of Flowers, Hoffman 47 

 Illustration (Fringed Pink), Lucy 



Hooper — 



The Snow-Drop 49 



The Snow-Drop, Smith 51 



The same, Langhorne 51 



The same, Montgomery . i 53 



The same, //otoiU 57 



The Snow-Drop's Call, Miss E. 



, 59 



The Primrose MI 



To the Primrose, Anon '' 



The Early Primrose, H. K. White 61 



The Primrose, Mrs. Hemans 62 



The same, CZarc 63 



The same, JlficA;/e 64 



To Primroses Filled with Morning 



Dew, HerricJc 65 



Cowslip .' 67 



On Finding an Early Cowslip, 



Anon 69 



Cowslips, Hoioitt 69 



Illustration (Pyrus Japonica), Lucy 



Hooper — 



ThbDaisy 71 



To a Daisy Blooming in the Depth 



of Winter, Willhouse 72 



The Daisy, Montgomery 73 



The same, Ley den 74 



The same, Wordsworth 75 



To a Mountain-Daisy, Bums .... 77 



The Michaelmas Daisy, Anon. ... 78 



The same. Miss Mitford 79 



Sweet Violet 80 



To an Early Violet, Howitt 81 



The same, ^nora 82 



Violets, A Sonnet, Barton 83 



The same, Smi<A 83 



To a Violet, Bowring 84 



To a Yellow Violet, Anon 85 



To a White Violet, H. L Johns . . 86 



The Violet, Miss London 87 



Illustration (the Crocus), Lucy Hoop 



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The Crocvs 89 



The Crocus, Prior 90 



The Autumnal Crocus, Howitt .. . 91 



Lilies « 93 



To Lilies, .<inon 95 



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