VI PREFACE. 



it. Nobody is more conscious than the author that 

 he has only Hghtly touched upon the fringe of a 

 great subject ; but if this little Book is the means 

 of rendering plants and flowers more interesting to 

 people after they have read it than they were before, 

 it will not have been written in vain. 



Ipswich, March 4^ 1884. 



