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Entered, according to the Act of Congress, in the year 1839, BY HOOKER & CLAXTON,

In the clerk's office of the district court of the eastern district of Pennsylvania.

05-5-33 JWB

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Tappan Presb. Assoc.

1-22-1933

Transs to

Museums.

6-29-62

ADVERTISEMENT.

THE language of flowers has recently attracted so much attention, that an acquaintance with it seems to be deemed, if not an essential part of a polite education, at least a graceful and elegant accomplishment. A volume furnishing a complete interpretation of those meanings most generally attached to flowers, has therefore become a desirable, if not an essential part of a gentleman's or a lady's library. In the manual now offered to the public, an attempt has been made to comprise all that is important in the way of interpretation in a reasonable compass, and to adorn this part of the work with such quotations from the best poets of our language, both native and foreign, as have a direct and graceful reference either to the peculiarities of the flowers, or to the sentiments which they are made to express. The outline of Botany placed at the end of the volume will be found to contain a sufficiently clear exposition of the Linnean system to explain fully the scientific terms and the classification used in the body of the work.

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EXPLANATION OF THE PLATES.

ROSE Love.

FRONTISPIECE.

Ivy. MYRTLE. - To Beauty, Friendship and

To face page 72.

SCARLET IPOMOEA. LAURUSTINUS. CONVOLVULUS.-I attach myself to you, but shall die if neglected.

To face page 132.

JASMINE. STRAWBERRY. TULIP.-Be not too early entangled in the charms of love, or yours will be a life of inquietude.

To face page 192.

CROWN IMPERIAL. TURK'S-CAP LILY.

LILY OF THE VAL

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LEY.-You have the power to restore me to happiness.

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