4 INTEODUCTION. 
, It is no new thing to attach sentiments to flowers. 
In Eastern lands, flowers have a language which all 
understand. It is that “ still small voice ” which 
is powerful on account of its silence. “ It is one of 
the chief amusements of the Greek girls to drop 
these symbols of their esteem or scorn upon the 
various passengers who pass their latticed windows.” 
And the traveller can read upon Egyptian rooks 
accounts of the conquests of that ancient people, 
recorded by foreign plants. 
The name which we have chosen for this little 
volmne we deem most appropriate for a work of this 
kind. As longfas sentiments have been attached to 
flowers, so long has Flora kept an Album on the 
pages of which she has faithfully inscribed them. 
We do not profess to have found this Album, as 
books have been found, on the dusty shelves of old 
and neglected libraries ; but we found scattered here 
and there, leaves, which by the sentiments inscribed 
upon them we felt assured rightly belonged to such 
a work. We therefore collected them ; and, when 
they were collected, we found we had in our posses¬ 
sion a complete copy of “ Flora's Album.” 
' With these few words we introduce this volume 
to your notice, and trust that our endeavors to please 
wUl meet the approbation of the public. 
J. S. A. 
October 1st, 1846. 
