THE 

 CORN MARIGOLD. 



Chrysanthemum segetum. Nut. 

 Ord., Compositce. 



MONGST all the localities 

 that various plants favour, 

 none bear away the palm 

 for brilliancy from our 

 cornfields. Our hedgerows 

 are gay with the pure 

 white blossoms of the sloe 

 or the delicate pink of the 

 rose; the moorland is dotted 

 over with the golden stars 

 of the asphodel, the white 

 tufts of the cotton grass, 

 the brilliant yellow of the 

 furze, or the rich sheet of 

 crimson of the heather-bells; while 

 the river bears on its surface the 

 silver chalice of the water-lily, 



or reflects in its waters the clusters of purple blossom of 

 the loose-strife; but the cornfield has an intensity of colour 

 all its own, for here we find in perfection the glorious 

 corn-flower, one of our finest blue flowers, the intensely 

 scarlet poppy, and the great golden discs of the corn 

 marigold. Such a nosegay as a good handful of these 

 three flowers would make should form a good test for the 



