In giving some account of the Wild Flowers of each month, the author has selected those which are most common, and most likely to be known by name to the general reader. Το have enumerated each flower of each month, would have occupied so much space, as to render these few pages no more than a floral dictionary. The writer would regard the work as a little guide-book to the fields, and lanes, and woods; designed to direct the attention of the lover of country walks, to the lowly flowers, which he may be most likely to find in his path.
"For not to dwell at large, on things remote
From use, obscuse and subtle; but to know
That which before us lics, in common life,
Is the chief wisdom."
The scientific name of each flower is added, in order to assist any who may wish to study