Excerpt from The Rural Wreath: Or, Life Among the Flowers

IN adding one to the many works on ¿owers, that have, from time to time, been offered to' the public, we make no apology. We believe that each, in its turn, has ministered to the widely spread and still increasing taste for those most beautiful creations of the Divine Goodness, which every where surround us, ' with such forcible, though voiceless, appeals to our notice and love. We trust that this may be the gentle mission of our unpre'tending work. I.

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