PEEFACE. 



The Author of tlie followiBg pages, in treating 

 ** the Gai'den Flowers, has acted on the same 

 |jrinciple as that adopted in the volume on 

 Wild Flowers, which preceded it. In selecting 

 a few from the thousands of flowers which 

 ;iave been introduced into Britain, those are 

 ohosen which are most commonly seen in the 

 garden, rather than those which are of more 

 choice culture. No instructions have been 

 added as to the mode of rearing them, as many- 

 inexpensive and valuable treatises are aheady 

 before the public, which are well calculated to 

 aid the amateur gardener in his pursuit. A 

 few simple things respecting cultivated flowers, 

 somewhat of their history, their uses, and 

 their relations to scriptural allusions, are here 

 stated. 



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