. Garden flowers . ^Si-gg^^C3<^;ii<a.^^ ^:^i. .THE DAISY. It is not, perhaps, too much to affirm that there does not grow a floweret inthe floral universe more interesting or more consonant with the tender feelingsof human nature than the Daisy—that wee crimson-tipped flower which,nearly all the long year through, lifts its modest head on every field, and lawn,and mountain side, as if to court the glance and smile of man. Poets, fromthe earliest ages to the present day, haVe tuned their lyres to sing the daisyspraise; but, methinks, none have sung more fitly than Chaucer, wWo sail of it,
. Garden flowers . ^Si-gg^^C3<^;ii<a.^^ ^:^i. .THE DAISY. It is not, perhaps, too much to affirm that there does not grow a floweret inthe floral universe more interesting or more consonant with the tender feelingsof human nature than the Daisy—that wee crimson-tipped flower which,nearly all the long year through, lifts its modest head on every field, and lawn,and mountain side, as if to court the glance and smile of man. Poets, fromthe earliest ages to the present day, haVe tuned their lyres to sing the daisyspraise; but, methinks, none have sung more fitly than Chaucer, wWo sail of it,in language whose simplicity accords with that innocence of whicli it is theemblem, the daisy it is sweet. lie could not have said less, twas impossibleto have said more, for Sweetness implies a modest winnin;^ grace,Tliat sits in radidat beauty on the plainest face. Other flowers are indeed more gorgeous, but none more simply sweet andsuggestive of tender associations. Who can gaze on these modest specks of white, with their golden bosses andti
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