CHRYSANTHEMUMS 



BECAUSE of these things I love the 

 chrysanthemum; because of these 

 things I follow its evolution with a bro- 

 ther's interest. It is, among familiar 

 plants, the most submissive, the most 

 docile, the most traftable and the most 

 attentive plant of all that we meet on 

 life's long way. It bears flowers im- 

 pregnated through and through with 

 the thought and will of man: flowers 

 already human, so to speak. And, if the 

 vegetable world is some day to reveal 

 to us one of the words that we are 

 awaiting, perhaps it will be through 

 this flower of the tombs that we shall 

 learn the first secret of existence, even 



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