THE H ' N 0-BOOK 



LlMilMliK & SKMIMKM OF FLOWERS. 



INTRODUCTORY OBSERVATIONS. 



By all those token-flowers that tell 

 What words can ne'er express so wel.. 



BYBOK 



Or all the varied productions of nature, 

 there is none more agreeable and pleasing 

 to the senses and to the itnasrination than 

 flowers. Historic, il and fabulous records 

 connect them with great and important 

 events. The Greeks and Romans decorated 

 the altars of their gods with (lowers in their 

 holy feasts; and they crowned themselves 

 with wreaths of flowers- and on days of 



