INTRODUCTION. 
t was in that age when the golden 
mornings of the early world were 
unclouded by the smoke of cities, — 
when the odors from thousands of 
untrodden flowers mingled with the 
aroma of old forests, and the gen¬ 
tlest wind that ever tried its wings, 
flapped its way through vast realms of sleeping fragrance, 
— that Love first set out to discover the long lost Lan¬ 
guage of the Flowers. For there had been rumors in 
the olden world, that before the winged lovers of Earth’s 
first daughters left their watch beside the star-beaconed 
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