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scientific and fashionable claims of the fair token-flowers, my 
sketches, both of pen and pencil, may happily prove some¬ 
thing more than a matter of “love and idleness.” 
Here the author may be supposed to curtsey her adieu, 
for a season, to the kind readers who have companioned her 
in her prosaic ramble among the Flower’s selected as Illustra¬ 
tions of Spring. Like an actress who performs several parts 
in one play, she must now change her character, and pray a 
“ continuance of patronage in the poetic and pictorial line,” 
until the next sweet Season, with its bright Flowers and 
fanciful flibles, asks a similar introduction from her prosaic 
pen. 
