PEEFACE. 
In bespeaking for the “Illustrated Lan¬ 
guage of Mowers” the favourable notice 
of her readers, the Editor cannot pre¬ 
tend to offer them anything decidedly novel 
either in material or arrangement. The 
meaning attached to flowers, to have any 
utility, should be as firmly fixed as possible ; 
no licence whatever has therefore been 
taken in creating or changing meanings. 
The Editor has simply confined herself to 
the task of making the best selection she 
could from the different sources of informa¬ 
tion at her disposal, and she trusts that 
within the very moderate compass of this 
little volume, the reader wiU find nearly 
everything of interest supplied by the cor¬ 
responding portions of larger and more 
expensive publications. 
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