THE LOCALITIES IN WHICH THEY GROW, THEIR TIMES OF
FLOWERING, &c.

AND ILLUSTRATIVE POETRY, ORIGINAL AND SELECTED.

BY ROBERT TYAS, B.A.,

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QUEENS' COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE;

AND FELLOW OF THE ROYAL POTANIC SOCIETY OF LONDON.

In hedgerows and in fields our favourites grow;
And moru, and noon, and dewy eve, they throw
Their fragrance on light vapours floating by
Where Nature bids her choicest beauties lie.

With Twelve Coloured Groups of flowers.

LONDON:

HOULSTON & STONEMAN, 65, PATERNOSTER ROW.

EDINBURGH: J. MENZIES.

1848.
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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

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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;
And morn, and noon, and dewy eve, they throw
Their fragrance on light vapours floating by
Where Nature bids her choicest beauties lie.