PREFACE. 



In giving some account of the Wild Flowers 

 of each month, the author has selected those 

 which are most common, and most likely to be 

 known by name to the general reader. To 

 have enumerated each flower of each month, 

 would have occupied so much space, as to 

 render these few pages no more than a floral 

 dictionary. The writer would regard the work 

 as a little guide-book to the fields, and lanes, 

 and woods; designed to direct the attention of 

 the lover of country walks, to the lowly flowers, 

 which he may be most likely to find in his 

 path. 



"For not to aweil at large, on things remote 

 From vise, obscure a;id subtle ; but to know 

 That which before us lies, in common life, 

 Is the chief wisdom." 



The scientific name of each flower is added, 

 in order to assist any who may wish to study 



