CONTENTS. 



FAOE 



LETTER I. 

 Introduction 1 



LETTER II. 

 The Loves of the Spiders — The Tour — Comparisons G 



LETTER III. 

 The Two Carpets — The Glories of Nature always within out Reach — In 

 the Journey of Life are many Fiomises of Happiness — Our Play- 

 things are but changed in Kame 10 



LETTER IV. 

 The Start— Costume — The Wren— The Mason Bee — The Chiysis — 



Marie Antoinette 17 



LETTER V. 

 Varied Colours of the Rose — ^Its Progress &om a WUd Flower, or Eglan- 

 tine, to its present Perfection — ^The Cetonia, the Enemy of the 

 Rose — The Aphis Rosse — Extraordioary Fecundity of an Aphis — 

 The Lady-bird — Nature's ProTxsion to preserve a Balance — The 

 generative Principle in Flowers — Grafted Rose 23 



LETTER VI. 

 Savants — The Reseda or Mignonette — The Marsh-mallow and the 



Baobab 36 



LETTER VII. 

 Nut-tree— Nut-Weevil— What is Property! 41 



LETTER VIII. 

 The Lily— The Ichneumon-fly — The Poppy 48 



LETTER IX. 

 Awakening of Creation— The Lupin— Night— The Sleep of Creation— 

 The Glowworm— The Death's-head Moth— Respiration of Plants . 59 



