Flora's Lexicon: An Interpretation of the Language and Sentiment of Flowers, With an Outline of Botany, and a Poetical Introduction (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

Catharine Harbeson Waterman

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 036656272X ISBN 13: 9780366562725

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Excerpt from Flora's Lexicon<br/><br/>Tun language of ?owers has recently attracted so much attention, that an acquaintance with it seems to be deemed, if not an essential part of a polite educa tion, at least a graceful and elegant accomplishment. A volume furnishing a complete interpretation of those meanings most generally attached to ?owers, has therefore become a desirable, if not an essential part of a gentleman's or a lady's library. In the manual now o?'ered to the public, an attempt has been made to comprise all that is important in the way of inter pretation in a reasonable compass, and to adorn this part of the work with such quotations from the best poets of our language, both native and foreign, as have a direct and graceful reference either to the peculiarities of the ?owers, or to the sentiments which they are made to express. The outline of Botany placed at the end of the volume will be found to con tain a sufficiently clear exposition of the Linnean sys tem to explain fully the scientific terms and the classi fication used in the body of the work.

Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 036656272X
• ISBN 13: 9780366562725
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 272