supply to such, in some measure, this gratification and the opportunity of obtaining such knowledge entered largely into our consideration, and though the number of flowers is small, and their size in some cases necessarily reduced, we yet hope that they have been acceptable to many who, by their residence in rural districts, are shut out from those great privileges of seeing living specimens of the finest and rarest plants, when brought together in floral exhibitions, which are enjoyed by residents in the metropolis and some of our large provincial towns. |