The motto chosen for the title page of this little 

 volume, will best explain the nature and plan of it, 

 and therefore the readers are spared the infliction of 

 a long elucidatory preface, which it is quite likely that 

 they would not take the trouble to read. Apologies 

 for putting forth a work on a similar subject to so 

 many beautiful volumes as to have, during the last 

 few years, issued from the press, the Editor does not 

 conceive to be necessary, because he feels assured 

 that the taste for flowers, and for the poetical associa- 

 tions connected therewith, widely as it has been 

 extended and diffused among all classes, by these 

 various publications, is still a growing and increasing 

 one, and that there is yet room for many more works, 

 both original and collected, upon this most imagina- 

 tive and delightful of all subjects. 



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