THE H ' KD-BOOK 
OF THE 
LANGUAGE & SENTIMENT OF FLOWERS. 
INTRODUCTORY OBSERVATIONS. 
By all those token-flowers that tell 
What words can ne’er express so wel.. 
Byron 
Of all the varied productions of nature, 
there is none more agreeable and pleasing 
to the senses and to the imagination than 
flowers. Historical and fabulous records 
connect them with great and important 
events. The Greeks and Romans decorated 
the altars of their gods with flowers in their 
holy feasts; and they crowned themselves 
with wreaths of flowers : and on diys of 
