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The poetic sentiments in the following pages are chiefly original; those that 
have been selected are usually from sources not attainable to the mass of readers, 
and will, we think, be as new as they are appropriate. The language of the 
flowers is, in most cases, that which lias been established by popular acceptance. 
Where authorities differ, we have followed our own taste. 
The study of flowers is so interesting, and their connection with poetry so 
natural, that it is hardly necessary to commend any work of this class to the 
notice of the cultivators or the lovers of flowers. 
