THE BOOK OF FLOWERS

5^'V \^'' THE BOOK OF FLOWERS; OR, GEMS OF FLOWERS AND POETRY TE ABE THE STARS OF EARTH, IS AND DEAR TO ME EACH SMALL TW1>'KLI>'G GEM THAT WAXDEKS FREE 'mid GLADE OR WOODLAND, OR BY MURm'rING STREAM, FOR ¥E TO ME ARE MORE THAN SWEET OR FAIR, I LOVE XE FOR THE MEm'rIES THAT YE BEAR OF BY-GONE HOURS, WHOSE BLISS WAS BUT A DREAM LOUISA ANNE TWAMLEY ,FS7 PRINTED BY HASWELL AND BARRINGTON, ST JAMES STREET mew yoka PREFACE The Compiler of this little ^ an indulgent Public, not as a ^ Volume to the ^ convinced there j^' many charms, is offers it to scientific one of moral amusement, which "^ lead the reader '^^^f'-^' work, but may possibly study of botany; feeling no study that possesses' so nor any that can exceed