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152 "Flora Londinensis," of Hooker, I find the following interesting "memoir" of this exquisite flower:—

After so admirable a description I have little left to say of my favourite flower, which, in pure and stately beauty, is truly "the Queen all flowers among," the Empress of the River, the "Lady of the Lake." How few, if any, of our foreign