124 FLORA DOMESTICA. 



And in Frenche called La Bel Margarete. 

 O commendable floure, and most in minde ! 

 O floure and gracious of excellence ! 

 O amiable Margarite ! of natife kind" — 



In another poem, describing an arbour, he safs : 



" With margarettes growing in ordinaunce 

 To shewe hem selfe as folke went to and fro, 

 That to beholde it was a great plesaunce. 

 And how they were accompanied with mo, 

 Ne momblisnesse and soneness also 

 The poure pensis were not dislogid there, 

 Ne God wote ther place was every where." 



He tells us that the Queen Alceste was changed into 



this flower: that she had as many virtues as there are 



florets in it. 



" Cybilla made the daisie, and the flour 

 Icrownid all with white, as man may se. 

 And Mars yave her a corown red, parde. 

 In stede of rubies set among the white." 



" The daisy scattered on each meade aijd downe, 

 A golden tufte within a silver croune. 

 Fayre fall that dainty flowre ! and may there be 

 No shepherd graced that doth not honor thee ! " 



W. Browne. 



But the Field Daisy is not an inhabitant of the flower- 

 garden : it were vain to cultivate it there. We have but 

 to walk into the fields, and there is a profusion for us. It 

 is the favourite of the great garden of Nature : 



" Meadows trim with daisies pied." 



The reader will doubtless remember Burns's Address 

 to a Mountain Daisy, beginning 



" Wee, modest, crimson-tipped flower." 

 The Scotch commonly call it by the name of Gowan ; a 



