PREFACE. xxxi 



The lily and the fleur-de-lis, 



For colour much contenting, 



For that I them do only prize, 



They are but poor in scenting ; 



The daffodil most dainty is 



To match with these in meetness ; 



The columbine compared to this, 



All much alike for sweetness : 



These in their natures only are 



Fit to emboss the border, 



Therefore I '11 take especial care 



To place them in their order : 



Sweet-williams, campions, sops-in-wine, 



One by another neatly ; 



Thus have I made this wreath of mine, 



And finished it featly." 



DRAYTON. 



" So did the maidens with their various flowers 



Deck up their windows and make neat their bowers : 



Using such cunning as they did dispose 



The ruddy peony with the lighter rose, 



The monkshood with the bugloss, and entwine 



The white, the blue, the flesh-like columbine 



With pinks, sweet-williams ; that far off the eye 



Could not the manner of their mixtures spy." 



W. BROWNE. 



What is here said on the subject of arrangement is 

 of course addressed to those who are unacquainted with 

 botany ; those who study that delightful science will, most 

 probably, prefer a botanical arrangement, observing how- 

 ever to place the smaller plants of each division next the 

 spectator, and thus proceeding gradually to the tallest and 

 most distant ; so that the several divisions will form strips 

 irregular in their width. 



The exertions of Lamarcke and the Jussieus have now 

 so improved the ancient and original method of arranging, 

 plants by their natural affinities to each other, that most 

 of the young botanists have adopted it. The only work 



