EBOOK FLOWERS AND FLOWER-GARDENS ***
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FLOWERS AND FLOWER-GARDENS.
BY
DAVID LESTER RICHARDSON,
PRINCIPAL OF THE HINDU METROPOLITAN COLLEGE, AND AUTHOR OF "LITERARY
LEAVES," "LITERARY RECREATIONS," &C.
WITH AN APPENDIX OF
PRACTICAL INSTRUCTIONS AND USEFUL INFORMATION RESPECTING THE
ANGLO-INDIAN FLOWER-GARDEN.
CALCUTTA:
MDCCCLV.
PREFACE.
In every work regard the writer's end,
Since none can compass more than they intend.
_Pope_.
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. I beg the London critics to bear this in
mind. I 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.
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