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The flower there with the big yellow eye 
And little white lashes that wink so spry ”’ 
The Rose spoke up quite loftily, said she, 
“The gardener calls it a French Daisy,”’ 
“Aha!” said the Marigold; “oho!” said the Pink, 
“What are we coming toj My!—just think! 
The ladies all wear it and exclaim ‘how sweet!’ 
Some call it a Daisy and some Marguerite.”’ 
Quick spoke the Tonch-Me-Not—“French is it, hey ? 
Halloo! little Daisy—parlez vous Francais ?” 
“Ahem !” said the Hollyhock clearing his throat, 
“On this fine French ‘Daisy the ladies may dote. 
With due respect for the opinion of the Rose, 
Pray excuse me ifI hold my old-fashioned nose; 
But when I was young it grew round the Kennel, 
My grandmother called it ‘that horrid Dog Fennel,’ ”’ 
—BETTIE GARLAND. 
VARIETIES IN PRESENT CULTIVATION. 
It is somewhat amusing at the present day to look over 
a few of the works written some years back upon the 
Chrysanthemum by English and other writers, to see the 
varieties there enumerated as the finest in their respect- 
ive classes. With some slight exceptions there is not 
one of them that would stand the muster roll among the 
great army of American raised seedlings of the present 
day. So great has the improvement been within the 
‘past few years, that most all the varieties of ten years 
ago are now relegated to the shade, and are only to be 
found in old-fashioned gardens, where they are cherished 
for what they have been, and not for any remarkable 
beauty they at present possess. In view of this it is with 
hesitation we give a list of the best varieties of the present 
time, lest future chroniclers should deride us for our 
choice of to-day. However if in the next decade the 
sorts here enumerated will be as far behind the ones of 
that period, as those of a dozen years ago are behind the 
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