Excerpt from Meehans' Monthly, Vol. 4: A Magazine of Horticulture, Botany and Kindred Subjects She lifted the heads with her tender hands, And sustained them with rods and osier bands; If the flowers had been her own infants, she Could never have loved them more tenderly. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.