Excerpt from Familiar Garden FlowersIN presenting the fifth bouquet of ¿owers from the home garden, occasion is made for returning thanks for the generous manner in which, with all their faults, the several gatherings have been received. The form of the work compels concentration, and it is well known that to write a long letter is much easier than to write a short one. It has sometimes troubled me that the brief space at command for presenting information compelled me to omit matters which, at the moment of writing, appeared to me of the highest importance. But now, when the task is completed, I see clearly that in the lightest of brief sketches there may often be conveyed a considerable amount of useful information, and perhaps in such a case as the present all that is really required. Unhappily, the shortness of the story is no defence against the intrusion of error, and while returning thanks for the cordial reception which the former volumes of the work have obtained, it is necessary to ask pardon for any slips of the pen that may be discovered. S. H.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.