ADVERTISEMENT TO THE SECOND EDITION. 
They tell me, gentle Reader, that I must either 
write a new Preface, or add to the present one, on 
this pleasant occasion of “ The Flower-Seasons Illus¬ 
trated” reaching a second edition. Ill would it be¬ 
come a favoured writer to be uncourteous to her 
generous patrons, and I therefore gladly accede to the 
demand. But the feelings expressed in my former 
prefatory remarks would inevitably be repeated in a 
second essay, and they shall therefore remain as be¬ 
fore:— then what have I to say?—nothing, save the 
presentation of my own poor thanks for the unmixed 
kindness with which my volume has been received. 
To render it in some measure more worthy, I have care¬ 
fully corrected some typographical and other errors, and 
in a few places added to the matter. 
I will here remark, in answer to several enquiries 
on the subject, that the metrical passages interwoven 
with the prose, are, when not marked otherwise, 
original. 
