CONTENTS 
Page 
Preface . a 
Page 
Presentation page. 5 
Introduction. 7 
Management of Plants in Rooms ... 11 
Ornamental Creepers for the open air 14 
GARDENS, WREATHS, &c. 
Legends of Flowers, Lucy Hooper 15 
The Painted Cup, Bryant . 18 
Flowers, Mrs. Sigourney . 19 
Song of the Last Violet, E. C. Em- 
To the Primrose, Anon . 61 
The Early Primrose, H. K. White 61 
The Primrose, Mrs. Hemans . 62 
The same, Clare . 63 
The same, Mickle . 64 
To Primroses Filled with Morning 
Dew, Herrick . 65 
Cowslip. 67 
On Finding an Early Cowslip, 
Anon . 69 
Cowslips, Howitt . 69 
Lines to a Belle — For the Orchis, 
Illustration (Pyrus Japonica), Lucy 
Hooper . t 
The Daisy... 71 
Invocation to a Wreath of Trans- 
Atlantic Flowers, Mrs. Balmanno 27 
The Remonstrance of the Trans¬ 
planted Flowers, E. C. Embury .. 29 
The Consumptive, E. C. Embury .. 30 
To an Autumn Rose, Hoffman . 32 
Invitation to Flowers, Barton . 33 
Beauty and Fragrance of Flowers, 
Thomson . 37 
To a Daisy Blooming in the Depth 
of Winter, Willhouse . 72 
The Daisy, Montgomery . 73 
The same, Levden . 74 
The same, Wordsworth . 76 
To a Mountain-Daisy, Burns .... 77 
The Michaelmas Daisy, Anon. ... 78 
The same. Miss Mitford . 7Q 
Sweet Violet. 8 (i 
Garden Lecture. Evans . 88 
Garden Thoughts, Montgomery .... 41 
COLLECTION OF FLOWERS. 
Language of Flowers, Hoffman 47 
Illustration (Fringed Pink), Lucy 
Hooper . 
The Snow-Drop . r 49 
The Snow-Drop, Smith . 51 
To an Early Violet, Howitt . 81 
The same, Anon . §2 
Violets, A Sonnet, Barton . 83 
The same. Smith . 88 
To a Violet, Bowring . 84 
To a Yellow Violet, Anon . 85 
To a White Violet, H. I. Johns .. 86 
The Violet, Miss London . 87 
Illustration (the Crocus), Lucy Hoop 
er . 
The same, Langhorne . 51 
The Crocus . tt gg 
The same, Montgomery . 53 
The same, Howitt . T .,, 57 
The Snow-Drop’s Call, Miss E. 
Emra . so 
The Crocus, Prior . 90 
The Autumnal Crocus, Howitt ... 91 
Lilies. qq 
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