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Project Gutenberg's Flowers and Flower-Gardens, by David Lester Richardson This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: Flowers and Flower-Gardens With an Appendix of Practical Instructions and Useful Information Respecting the Anglo-Indian Flower-Garden Author: David Lester Richardson Release Date: May 7, 2004 [EBook #12286] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK FLOWERS AND FLOWER-GARDENS *** Produced by Tony Browne and PG Distributed Proofreaders. Produced from images provided by the Million Book Project. 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. 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 materials that pressed upon my notice. As by far the largest portion, of it has been written hurriedly, amidst other avocations, and bit by bit; just as the Press demanded an additional supply of "_copy_," I have but too much reason to apprehen
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