Excerpt from Familiar Garden FlowersThe completion of a Second Series of familiar garden F lowers may suggest to some readers that suitable subjects will now be growing scarce. But there will be no scarcity even when the Third Series is completed, and it matters not how far we proceed, there will still be suitable subjects remaining, so va'st is the field in Which these humble labours are pleasantly prosecuted, and so infinite the variety of beautiful and familiar garden ¿owers. We are still only on the threshold of the temple of F lore, and in the Third Series, therefore, we shall be enabled, With.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.