This section is from the book "The Flower-Garden; Or, Breck's Book Of Flowers", by Joseph Breck. Also available from Amazon: The Flower-Garden: Or, Breck's Book Of Flowers.
It is a beautiful little perennial plant, with brilliant blue flowers, in April and May; six inches high, and is common in every cottager's garden in England; and would be here, if more extensively known.
 
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