Cyclopedia of Practical Floriculture (Classic Reprint)

To those endowed with keen perceptions, the magnificent, intricate and wonderful handiwork of the A ll-wise is daily manifested, and always new, in the infinite variety of the floral vorld. A number of years ago, the writer, being interested in the mythological legends of the Greeks andR omans, was frequently struck with the number of fabled gods and goddesses, and the various rural nymphs who attended them, that were transformed into a tree, shrub or flower, either to mitigate some sorrow, gratify revenge, or as a punishment for some breach of the laws supposed to govern the deities of that time. Having made numerous memoranda of such legends, the love of flowers was sufficient to interest one in the general history of plants, their nativity, uses, the chief events in the history of each species, its cultivation and introduction into A merica.
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