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Title: Proserpina, Volume 1
Studies Of Wayside Flowers

Author: John Ruskin

Release Date: January 22, 2007 [EBook #20421]

Language: English

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PROSERPINA.

STUDIES OF WAYSIDE FLOWERS,

WHILE THE AIR WAS YET PURE

_AMONG THE ALPS, AND IN THE SCOTLAND AND
ENGLAND WHICH MY FATHER KNEW_.

BY

JOHN RUSKIN, LL.D.,

HONORARY STUDENT OF CHRIST CHURCH, AND SLADE PROFESSOR OF FINE ART.

"Oh--Proserpina!
For the flowers now, which frighted, thou let'st fall
From Dis's waggon."

VOLUME I.

New York:
JOHN WILEY & SONS,
15 Astor Place.

1888.

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Press of J. J. Little & Co.,
Astor Place, New York.

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CONTENTS OF VOL. I

PAGE
INTRODUCTION, 1

CHAPTER I.
MOSS, 12

CHAPTER II.
THE ROOT, 26

CHAPTER III.
THE LEAF, 40

CHAPTER IV.
THE FLOWER, 64

CHAPTER V.
PAPAVER RHOEAS, 86

CHAPTER VI.
THE PARABLE OF JOASH, 106

CHAPTER VII.
THE PARABLE OF JOTHAM, 117

CHAPTER VIII.
THE STEM, 127

CHAPTER IX.
OUTSIDE AND IN, 151

CHAPTER X.
THE BARK, 170

CHAPTER XI.
GENEALOGY, 176

CHAPTER XII.
CORA AND KRONOS, 205

CHAPTER XIII.
THE SEED AND HUSK, 219

CHAPTER XIV.
THE FRUIT GIFT, 227

INDEX I.
DESCRIPTIVE NOMENCLATURE, 239

INDEX II.
ENGLISH NAMES, 255

INDEX III.
LATIN OR GREEK NAMES, 258

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PROSERPINA.

INTRODUCTION.

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