THE LOCALITIES IN WHICH THEY GROW, THEIR TIMES OF AND ILLUSTRATIVE POETRY, ORIGINAL AND SELECTED. BY ROBERT TYAS, B.A., 70 QUEENS' COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE; AND FELLOW OF THE ROYAL POTANIC SOCIETY OF LONDON. In hedgerows and in fields our favourites grow; With Twelve Coloured Groups of flowers. LONDON: HOULSTON & STONEMAN, 65, PATERNOSTER ROW. EDINBURGH: J. MENZIES. 1848. PREFACE. OUR design in writing the following pages was to supply entertaining and instructive accounts of such plants, indigenous to Britain, as are most generally known and admired; whose names are familiar as household words with thousands who seldom, if ever, had seen them in their native wilds, and who scarcely knew them when seen Many a one doomed to toil for daily bread within close pent cities, reading the name of some fair floweret of the vale, and 720 า seeing how it is associated in the mind of his author with pleasant thoughts and sweet recollections, has loved the flower. To such we purposed to bring a more intimate acquaintance with these bright and cheerful favourites of still merry England. In hedgerows and in fields our favourites grow; |