CHRYSANTHEMUMS 

 treat those who seek to make it more 

 beautiful or more strange as La Bru- 

 yere once treated the lover of the tulip 

 or the plum. Do you remember the 

 charming page? 



"The lover of flowers has a garden in 

 the suburbs, where he spends all his 

 time from sunrise to sunset. You see 

 him standing there and would think 

 that he had taken root in the midst 

 of his tulips before his 'Solitaire;' he 

 opens his eyes wide, rubs his hands, 

 stoops down and looks closer at it; it 

 never before seemed to him so hand- 

 some; he is in an ecstasy of joy, and 

 leaves it to go to the ' Orient/ then to 

 the ' Widow/ from thence to the c Cloth 



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