AND THEIR ASSOCIATIONS. BY ANNE PRATT, AUTHOR OF "THE FIELD, THE GARDEN, AND THE "CONSIDER THE LILIES." LONDON: CHARLES KNIGHT AND CO., 22, LUDGATE-STREET. 1840. PREFACE. The following pages are intended chiefly for the information and amusement of those who, while fond of flowers, have not made them the object of their study. Several interesting circumstances respecting flowers are here recorded; and the general observations on their habits and nature, which an acquaintance with botany has enabled the author to furnish, are expressed in a manner which, from its general avoidance of scientific terms, she hopes will render her work pleasing to the general reader. She has taken indiscriminately, as the subject of her observations, the flower which, blooming on the parterre of a British garden, has been |