TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES
The following variant spellings are used in this text:
1) midsummer (3 times) and mid-summer (twice)
2) springtime (once) and spring-time (twice)
3) sweetmeat and sweet-meat (once each).
The two occasions on which the œ ligature is used have been rendered as "oe": "Coboea" and "Ipomoea", both on [p. 95].
The following amendments to the text have been made: