MODERN FLOWERS. 



E have included in the previous pages 

 all the flowers and fruits mentioned in 

 Scripture. We have presented some 

 which are doubtless uncertain; but 

 about twenty-two or twenty-three have 

 so much to distinguish them from the 

 rest and to identify them with ancient 

 varieties that considerable confidence 

 maybe placed in the opinions expressed 

 that they are the same with those of 

 Scripture times and reference. 

 But numbers of flowers, and some fruits not belonging to 

 trees, have been found on the hills and in the valleys, which 

 have never yet been mentioned, either in the Scriptures or in 

 botanical works. Many, however, have been introduced into 

 the country and spread over it from various causes, some of 

 which have been already noticed in our introductory chapters 

 Some have been transplanted from Europe by visitors. 



In the final plate (VI.) we have three which might be con 

 sidered representatives of three great classes of interest, the 

 classic, the scriptural, and simply the botanical, and of three 



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