VERY BEAUTIFUL FLOWERS 117 
very beautiful butterflies, and others that seem to be 
very beautiful butterflies just changing into flowers. 
There are flowers that are all the colours that there 
are, and others that have tried all the colours that 
there are, and then found out new ones to be of. 
And there are some, too, that are only white, but so 
lovely that all the flowers of all the colours that there 
are, gaze at them and envy them. Some are so soft 
and delicate that, although you see them, you only 
seem to be dreaming of them. They make you 
think of heaven, and it is as if angels were kissing you. 
Others are like golden stars, with a stem that is like 
a long, long, very long piece of red string that goes 
tying itself round and round a great many trees, and 
climbing up and up them, and all the way up there 
are bright green leaves and the beautiful golden stars. 
Other strings are golden or green, and have pink or 
crimson stars upon them, and some of these hang 
down, like glowing lamps from a soft, cool, emerald 
ceiling. Some flowers are like little bunches of 
red counters that you play games with, and there is 
one that is like a wonderful, scarlet, shining leaf, 
with a thick little tail at the tip of it, twisted round 
in a coil. This tail is orange with cream-white 
spots upon it, but just at its owm tip it is scarlet 
again, like the rest of the leaf. Such a wonderful- 
looking flower! There are creeping crimson nastur- 
