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THE ROMANCE OF NATURE; 
OR, 
THE FLOWER SEASONS ILLUSTRATED. 
By LOUISA ANNE TWAMLEY. Second Edition. In one large 8vo. volume, 
Price 31s. 6 d. 
*** This splendid Work contains Twenty-seven Plates of Flowers, carefully en- 
graved and most beautifully coloured after Nature. It is richly and appropriately 
bound in green morocco, extra gilt, and forms one of the handsomest as well as most 
nteresting ornaments for the Drawing-room table ever produced. 
“ This is a book of singular beauty and taste. Exquisite coloured drawings of favourite flowers are ac- 
companied by graceful quotations from the various authors who have felt their ‘ sweetest inspiration,’ and 
some charming original poems. Whether for tasteful decoration, originality, or grace, we have seen no 
superior to this most beautiful volume .” — Literary Gazette. 
DEDICATED TO THE QUEEN. 
FLORA’S GEMS; 
THE TREASURES OF THE PARTERRE, 
IN TWELVE BOUQUETS, DRAWN AND COLOURED BY JAMES ANDREWS, WITH 
POETICAL ILLUSTRATIONS BY L. A. TWAMLEY. 
The Plates of this work are all coloured in the most finished style, so as to equal first- 
rate Drawings, and are accompanied with poetical illustrations. It forms a unique 
ornament for the drawing-room table or lady’s boudoir. Imperial 4to., handsomely 
bound, £2 2s. A few choice copies in morocco £2 12s. 6d. 
“ We know not which we love best among these groups of loveliness : we halt amid heath, hyacinth, 
hollyhock, and heliotrope, and look at the gentle camellia, and lovely convolvolus, and columbine, and 
cyclamen, and know not which to choose ; even Iris cannot wholly captivate our eyes, for in the next page 
we are flirting with a china-aster, sighing out our soul before sweet peas, or languishing before a white 
geranium. — They are indeed beautiful ; there is a naturalness about them such as we have rarely seen 
excelled ; we could almost fancy that the hand of Nature had fashioned them, or that the spirit of the 
flowers had stolen forth in the still twilight, and thrown around them her magical tints. 
“ Oh '. they are beautiful and fair to see, 
Like ladies from afar Countiie.” 
The poetry is occasionally very pleasing ; and there are several happy and original thoughts which only 
a love of flowers could have produced. The description of the Hollyhocks in the Old Hall Garden is new 
and beautiful. — The work contains many passages of beautiful and sterling poetry . — Literary Gazette. 
THE SENTIMENT OF FLOWERS; 
WITH TWELVE GROUPS OF FLOWERS, TASTEFULLY DESIGNED AND COLOURED. 
Third Edition, cloth, gilt edges, price 6s., silk, 7s. 6d., or morocco elegant, 8s. 6d. 
“ In Eastern lands they talk in flowers. 
And they tell in a garland their loves and cares ; 
Each blossom that blooms in their garden bowers. 
On its leaves a mystic language bears.” 
This work teaches the eloquent language referred to in the above beautiful lines. 
As in the East, so in the fair island of Britain, “flowers are here made to speak the 
language of sentiment.” 
“ One of the prettiest little books we have seen. It contains twelve coloured engravings, a neatly told 
biography, if we may use the term, of each flower— all the graceful anecdotes connected with them, and 
some very beautiful and appropriate poetical quotations. Well, if we were a young lady, we would neither 
write nor receive a billet-doux, save in the shape of a bouquet .” — Court Journal. 
REFLECTIONS ON A FLOWER-GARDEN; 
By the Rev. James Hervey. Price 5s. 6d., neatly bound. 
This New Edition of Hervey’s celebrated Work is elegantly printed, and illus- 
trated by Twelve Plates of the most remarkable Flowers mentioned by the Author, 
It forms a very tasteful present for young persons. 
LESSONS IN FLOWER PAINTING; 
In a Series of easy and progressive Studies. Drawn and coloured after Nature, 
By James Andrews. 
This Work contains Twenty-four Sheets of Flowers, beautifully coloured. In 
the style of its execution, it far surpasses any similar publication. To render it essen- 
tially useful, as well as ornamental, a duplicate of each plate is given in outline, 
printed on drawing paper, for the pupil to colour like the original. It may be had 
complete, handsomely bound in ornamented cloth, gilt edges, price 1 6 s. ; or in Six 
Parts, 2s. fid. each. 
