JOHANN S. BACH 
Wliat a desolate place the world would be without a flower! It would be a face 
without a smile, a feast without a welcome. Are not flowers the stars of earth, and are 
not stars the flowers of heaven?—Mrs. Balfour. 
To analyze the charms of flowers is like dissecting music; it is one of those things 
which it is far better to enjoy than to attempt to understand.—Tuckerman. 
Flowers preach to us if we will but hear.—Christina Rosetti. 
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