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she has endeavoured to express in a clearer manner; and others 
that did not discuss the subject sufficiently, have been enlarged. 
The Work is also now presented to the Public, it is hoped, in 
a more acceptable manner as to Price; which in the first edition, 
owing to the Author’s inexperience in the management of public 
Works, was fixed too high; although the expence attending it 
fully justified the Publisher’s estimate. In order, however, to re¬ 
medy the error, as far as it is possible, the addition now published 
may be had of the publisher T. Gardiner, for Half-a-Crown; 
or it may be added to a second part of this Work, which will be 
speedily published ; and in which the principles of the theory 
will be extended to Landscapes, &c. 
It may possibly appear presumptuous in one, who is pro¬ 
fessedly only a flower painter, to offer any thing like instruction 
to them who are practitioners in the higher branches of the Art; 
but that is by no means the Author’s intention ; she means only 
to present the principle to their notice, and to point out its ap¬ 
plication to different objects, as well as' flowers, by blots adapted 
to the purpose. 
The difference of opinion alluded to in the following pages. 
