Flora's Interpreter: Or The American Book Of Flowers And Sentiments (1833) - Tapa blanda

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There is nothing new attempted, except in the arrangement, and the introduction of American sentiments. Flowers have always been symbols of the aiiections probably ever since our int parents tended theirs in the garden of Godâs own planting. They seem hallowed from that association, and intended naturally to represent pure, tender and devoted thoughts and feelings. The expression of nhese feelings has been, in all ages, the province of poetrys And to the poets we must relhr in order to settle the philology of flowers. This I have endeavored to do. I have carefully searched the poets and writers on Eastern manners where llowers are even now the messengers of the heart, and have selected such interpretations, (for these authorities, like other philologists, sometimes diifer,) as appeared most reasonable from the character and history of the ,B owen I have given the generic and usually the specidc name ,also the Class, Order, and native country of each Bower. These particulars will be of someuse if the study of botany is pursued, or at any rate, they must associate in the mind of the reader some notion of the science. A knowledge ofthe locality of the plant would, I thought, assist us to judge somewhat of its character and adaptation to our gardens er green houses, andthe size of the volume to which I was restricted, prevented me from entering into long descriptions and scientiiic explanations. I name these things, not to swell the importance of a trifling production, but only to show that good motives may mingle a little of the useful even with trifles.
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