PREFACE. 
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the colour of its flowers, and, for the benefit 
of the curious, the place from whence it 
originally derived its birth; it will be seen 
that many of our ordinary flowers were once 
exotics, although now naturalised. 
We have added an explanation of a few 
botanical terms which we have had occasion 
to employ ; and in a preliminary article, we 
have given a list of the Linnsean classes and 
orders, and their names. A careful perusal 
of this article will give every necessary in¬ 
formation on this head. 
