The motto chosen for the title page of this little 
volume, will best explain the nature and plan of it, 
and therefore the readers are spared the infliction of 
a long elucidatory preface, which it is quite likely that 
they would not take the trouble to read. Apologies 
for putting forth a work on a similar subject to so 
many beautiful volumes as to have, during the last 
few years, issued from the press, the Editor does not 
conceive to be necessary, because he feels assured 
that the taste for flowers, and for the poetical associa¬ 
tions connected therewith, widely as it has been 
extended and diffused among all classes, by these 
various publications, is still a growing and increasing 
one, and that there is yet room for many more works, 
both original and collected, upon this most imagina¬ 
tive and delightful of all subjects. 
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