PREFACE. IN bespeaking for the "Illustrated Language of Flowers" the favourable notice of her fair readers, the Editor cannot pretend to offer them anything decidedly novel either in material or arrangement. The meaning attached to flowers, to have any utility, should be as firmly fixed as possible; no licence whatever has therefore been taken in creating or changing meanings. The Editor has simply confined herself to the task of making the best selection she could from the different sources of information at her disposal, and she trusts that within the very moderate compass of this little volume, the reader will find nearly everything of interest supplied by the corresponding portions of larger and more expensive publications. |