CONTENTS. 
Page 
Preface. 3 
Presentation page .. 5 
Introduction. 7 
Management of Plants in Rooms ... 11 
Ornamental Creeperh for the open air 14 
GARDENS, WREATHS, &c. 
Legends of Flowers, Lucy Hooper 15 
The Painted Cup, Bryant . 18 
Flowers, Mrs. Sigourney . 19 
Sur.g of the Last Violet, E. C. Em¬ 
bury . 22 
Lines to a Belle — For the Orchis, 
O. IV. Holmes . 23 
A. Clump of Daisies. 25 
Invocation to a Wreath of Trans- 
Atlantic Flowers, Mrs. Balmanno 
The Remonstrance of the Trans¬ 
planted Flowers, E. C. Embury'.. 
The Consumptive, E. C. Embury .. 
To an Autumn Rose, Hoffman . 
Invitation to Flowers, Barton . 33 
Beoi'y and Fragrance of Fjo we is, 
Thomson . 3 7 
Garden Lecture, Evans . 38 
Garden Thoughts, Montgomery .... 41 
COLLECTION OF FLOWERS. 
Language of Flowers, Hoffman 47 
Illustration (Fringed Pink), Lucy 
Hooper .. 
The Snow-Drop. 49 
The Snow-Drop, Smith . 51 
The same. Langhorne . 51 
The same, Montgomery . 53 
The same, Howitt . 57 
The Snow-Drop’s Call, Miss E. 
Emra . 59 
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The Primrose .... . ’'t 
To the Primrose, Anon. .... . ' 
The Early Primrose, H. K. White 61 
The Primrose, Mrs. Hemans . 62 
The same, Clare . 63 
The same, Mickle . 64 
To Primroses Filled with Morning 
Dew, Herrick ... 65 
. 67 
Hariy Cowslip, 
Cowslip. 
On Finding an 
.. 69 
Cowslips, Howitt . 69 
Illustration (Pyrus Japonica), Lucy 
Hooper .... “ 
The Daisy. 71 
To a Daisy Blooming in the Depth 
of Winter, Willhouse . 73 
The Daisy, Montgomery . 73 
The same, Leyden . 74 
The same, Wordsworth .. 75 
To a Mountain-Daisy, Burns .... 77 
The Michaelmas Daisy, Anon. ... 78 
The same, Miss Mitford . 79 
Sweet Violet. 80 
To an Early Violet, Howitt . 81 
The same, Anon .. 
Violets, A Sonnet, Barton . 83 
The same, Smith . 83 
To a Violet, Bowring . 84 
To a Yellow Violet, Anon.. 85 
To a White Violet, H. I. Johns .. 84 
The Violet, Miss Landon . 87 
Illustration (the Crocus), Lucy Hoop 
