THE following Essay on Flowers appeared originally in 

 the Quarterly Eeview in the year 1842. Though many ad- 

 ditions and corrections might now be made, it has been 

 thought better on the whole to print it almost word for word 

 as it was first published. A Chapter on the Poetry of 

 Gardening, by the same writer, which first appeared in another 

 Miscellany, has been added, as embodying, though under . a 

 somewhat conceited form, the same views of Gardening at 

 greater length. 



March, 1852. 



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