CHRYSANTHEMUMS 



depths of the sea ; it reveals itself only 

 in shifting patches at the tips of the pe- 

 tals; it is vague and anxious, frail and 

 elusive, but undeniable. It has made its 

 entrance, it exists, it asserts itself; it 

 will be daily more fixed and more 

 determined; and, through the breach 

 which it has contrived, all the joys and 

 all the splendours of the banished prism 

 will hurl themselves into their virgin 

 domain, there to prepare unaccustomed 

 feasts for our eyes. This is a great tiding 

 and a memorable conquest in the land 

 of flowers. 



We must not think that it is puerile 

 thus to interest one's self in the capri- 

 cious forms, the unwritten shades of a 

 humble, useless flower, nor must we 



