iv PREFACE. 
mialyzation. ‘Flora’s Interpreter,’—the best of 
ihe. flower books,—has been our guide in this; 
but, though imitating, we have not copied. 
The study of flowers is so interesting, and their 
connection with poetry so natural, that it is hardly 
necessary to commend any work of this class to 
the notice of the cultivators or the lovers of 
flowers. We only ask for ours, that it may have 
its clay witn toe rest. 
September 1, 131?. 
