FLOWERS AND FLOWER GARDENS 1855 DAVID LESTER RICHARDSON PREFACE This volume is far indeed from being a, scientific treatise On Flowers and Flower-Gardens: it is mere gossip in print upon a pleasant subject. But I hope it will not be altogether useless. If I succeed in my object I shall consider that I have gossipped to some purpose. On several points such as that of the mythology and language of flowers I have said a good deal more than I should have done had I been writing for a different community. 1 beg the London critics to bear this in mind. 1 wished to make the subject as attractive as possible to some classes of people here who might not have been disposed to pay any attention to it whatever if I had not studied their amusement as much as their instruction. I have tried to sweeten the edge of the cup. I did not at first intend the book to exceed fifty pages: but I was almost insensibly carried on further and further from the proposed limit by the attractive nature of the...

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