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The poetic sentiments in tlie following pages are chiefly original; those that 

 have been selected are usually from sources not attainable to the mass of readers, 

 and will, we think, be as new as they are appropriate. The language of the 

 flowers is, in most cases, that which has been established by popular acceptance. 

 Where authorities differ, we have followed our own taste. 



The study of flowers is so interesting, and their connection with poetry so 

 natural, that it is hardly necessary to commend any work of this class to the 

 notice of the cultivators or the lorers of flowers. 



