PREFACE. 



OF all rational amusements the Cultivation of 

 Plants is the most so. It promotes health, invi- 

 gorates the animal spirits, and if persons are of a 

 contemplative turn of mind, there is nothing so 

 elevating to our ideas of beauty as the subject 

 of Flowers, for whilst we are employed in view- 

 ing the admirable productions of Nature, it ought 

 at all times to lead us to the God of the Universe 

 who formed them all. There is no work so well 

 calculated to encourage useful reflections upon 

 the subject of Flowers as the late Rev. James 

 Hervey's " Meditations in the Flower Garden." 



THE EDITOR. 



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