JOURNAL 
OF 
The New York Botanical Garden 
Vor. II. July, 1901, 
No. 19, 
THE INFLUENCE OF FLOWERS UPON LITER- 
ATURE.* 
Ican in this brief space merely touch upon a few of the ex- 
amples of the use of flowers in literature. I have openeda great 
might prove to be, and one would be surprised to find in how 
many cases this first-found sentence is one that speaks of some 
flower. Many of the references I shall give will be instances of 
not my purpose to undertake any psychological an- 
h 
it is not as the haughty nation of the Eagle, the Lion or the 
Bear, but they term it the Flowery Kingdom. 
" * Abstract of lecture delivered at the Garden June 8, 1901. 
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