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serviceable and pleasurable by others. Neither shall I 

 now change the position of the Draconidee, as suggested 

 at p. 118, but keep all as first planned. See among other 

 reasons for doing so the letter quoted in p. 121. 



I also add to the plate originally prepared for this num- 

 ber, one showing the effect of Veronica officinalis in deco- 

 ration of foreground, merely by its green leaves ; see the 

 paragraphs 1 and 5 of Chapter "VI. I have not repre- 

 sented the fine serration of the leaves, as they are quite 

 invisible from standing height : the book should be laid 

 on the floor and looked down on, without stooping, to 

 see the effect intended. And so I gladly close this long- 

 lagging number, hoping never to write such a tiresome 

 chapter as this again, or to make so long a jTause between 

 any readable one and its sequence. 



p. 105, 1. 1, for ' love ' read ' be loved.' 

 p. 105, 1. 3, put a semicolon, instead of comma, after ' it.' 

 p. 113, 1. 9 from bottom, put 'calf's muzzle' in inverted commas, 

 p. 115, ' never appearing in clusters ' ; I meant, in close masses. It 

 forms exquisite little rosy crowds, on ground that it likes. 



