CONTENTS 
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Preeacs.... 3 
Presentation pago. 5 
Introduction.. 7 
Management of Plants in Rooms ... .1 
Ornamental Creepers for the open air 14 
GARDENS, WREATHS, &c. 
Legends of Flowers, Lucy Hooper 15 
The Painted Cup, Bryant . 18 
Flowers, Mrs. Sigourney . 1 
S.ir.g of the Last Violet, E. D Em¬ 
bury . 22 
Lines to a Belle — For the Orchis, 
O. W. Holmes . 23 
A Clump of Daisies. 25 
Invocation to a Wreath of Trans- 
Atlantic Flowers, Mrs. Balmnnno 27 
The Remonstrance of the Trans¬ 
planted Flowers, E. C. Embury ,. 29 
The Consumptive, E. C. Embury .. 30 
To an Autumn Rose, Hoffman . 34 
Invitation to Flowers, Barton . 33 
Beauty and Fragrance of Floweis, 
Thomson . 37 
Garden l.ecture, Evans . 38 
Garden Thoughts, Montgomery .... 41 
COLLECTION OF FLOWERS. 
Language or Flowers, Hoffman 47 
Illustration (Fringed Pink), Lucy 
Hooper . — 
The Snow-Drop . 49 
The Snow-Drop, Smith . 51 
The same, Langhome . 51 
The same, Montgomery . 53 
The same. Hauntt . 57 
The Snow-Drop's Call, Miss E. 
Emra ..... 59 
The Primrose...- ’< 
To the Primrose, Anon. .. ' 
The Early Primrose, H. K. White Pi 
The Primrose, Mrs. Hcmans . 63 
The same, Clare . 63 
The same, Mickle . 64 
To Primroses Filled with Morning 
Dew, Herrick .... . 65 
Cowslip. 67 
On Finding an Harly Cowslip, 
Anon . 69 
Cowslips, Howitt . 69 
Illustration (Pyrus Japonica), Lucy 
Hooper . — 
The Daisy. 71 
To a Daisy Blooming in the Depth 
of Winter, Willhouse ..' 72 
The Daisy, Montgomery . 73 
The same, Leyden . 74 
The same, Wordsworth . 75 
To a Mountain-Daisy, Burns .... 77 
The Michaelmas Daisy, Anon. ... 78 
The same, Miss Mitjord . 79 
Sweet Violet. 80 
To an Early Violet, Howitt . 81 
The same, Anon . 82 
Violets, A Sonnet, Barton . 83 
The same, Smith . 83 
To a Violet, Bowring . 84 
To a Yellow Violet, Anon. . 83 
To a White Violet, H. I Johns .. 84 
The Violet, Miss London . 87 
Illustration (the Crocus), Lucy Hoop 
er .. .. 
The Crocus . 82 
The Crocus. Prior . 99 
The Autumnal Crocus, Howitt ... 9 
Lilies. 93 
To Lilies, Anon .............. V) 
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