vi PREFACE 



to think of my readers as collaborators, friends 

 going round their gardens and through the fields 

 and woodlands, and sharing with me the desire to 

 know the meaning and origin of the names of the 

 trees and flowers which we love. 



I have to express my obligations to Miss White, 

 LL.D., Principal of the Alexandra College, Dublin; 

 to Miss May Crosbie; to Sir Frederick W. Moore, 

 F.R.H.S., late Director of the Royal Botanic 

 Gardens, Glasnevin; to the Rev. Canon Kingsmill 

 Moore, D.D., Principal of the Church of Ireland 

 Training College, Dublin; to R. Lloyd Praeger, 

 Esq., Librarian of the National Library of Ireland; 

 to Lieut. -Colonel Sir John Ross of Bladensburg, 

 K.C.B., K.C.V.O.; and to Colonel the Hon. M. G- 

 Talbot, C.B., who most kindly helped me in 

 various ways. 



Malahide, 



Co. Dublin. 



