CHRTSAJVTHEMUMS 



EVERY year, in November, at the sea- 

 son that follows on the hour of the dead, 

 the crowning and majestic hour of au- 

 tumn, reverently I go to visit the chrys^ 

 anthemums in the places where chance 

 offers them to my sight. For the rest, it 

 matters little where they are shown to 

 me by the good will of travel or of so- 

 journ. They are, indeed, the most uni- 

 versal, the most diverse of flowers ; but 

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