PREFACE. 



My hopes in this little Work are that it may be con- 

 sidered useful : and if at some future time I should learn 

 that it has induced but one person to apply to the study 

 of Botany, or imbued the mind of a single individual 

 with a relish for the simple beauties of Nature, the time 

 devoted to it will have been well employed. 



G. FRANCIS. 



PREFACE 



TO THE SECOND EDITION. 



THE former very extended Edition of this Work met 

 with so favorable a reception that it rapidly sold off. I 

 had no hopes at its first publication that a second 

 would be thus early called for, yet the applications for 

 it this Spring have been so numerous, that I have ven- 

 tured to offer to the Public a Second Edition. This 

 I believe they will find more worthy of their patronage 

 than the last, in consequence of the introduction of a 

 great mass of new information and numerous Wood 

 Engravings, besides the general and careful revision and 

 improvement which the whole has received. 



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