NOTICE. 



Flowers and their culture have a whole literature 

 to themselves. Hundreds of pounds might be spent 

 in forming a floral library, and years devoted to 

 studying its contents. Will, therefore, the Eeader 

 violently complain if he finds this Flower Garden 

 incomplete in certain details, aud even blemished by 

 sundry small errors, — to avoid which last, however, 

 all pains have been taken ? It pretends to exactly 

 as much as, and no more than, its predecessor, " The 

 Kitchen Garden;" and will be content to receive the 

 same meed of approbation, and to exercise the same 

 amount of usefulness. 



In all pursuits, there must be a first step, — an 

 Indicator to the grand highways which lead to success 

 and eminence. It is something to have taught an 

 apprentice hand not to attempt too much at once; — 

 to have pointed out to him where the difficulties of 

 his Art lie, — what he may undertake with confident 

 ease, — and to achieve which results he must gird up 



