Excerpt from The Moral of Flowers: Or, Thoughts Gathered From the Field and the Garden In these rhyming days, when almost every one lays claim to some acquaintance with the muse, vanity can hope so little from the distinction of authorship, that the writer of the following pages would humbly trust some better feeling has induced her to offer them to the public. Many of the pieces were written long before the subject of Flowers was so fashionable as it has now become. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.