TO THE READER. 
vacancy seems to exist in the litera¬ 
ture of the present day, which this hook, 
it is hoped, may help to fill. There is 
no English work on the Language of 
Flowers which is at all satisfactory, and 
no foreign one, as far as we are aware, 
which is either sufficiently complete, or 
exactly adapted to American wants. The 
editor has consulted all the flower books 
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