MARGUERITES AND POPPIES 79 



bright children, much is tolerated that would be 

 inexcusable in almost any other wild flower; so 

 that I cannot recall a single instance of a golfer 

 being out of temper, even after the loss of a second 

 ball. 



Enlarge a daisy many-fold ; broaden its yellow 

 disc to an inch in diameter, surrounding it with 

 correspondingly great rays, and you get, at all 

 events in appearance, a marguerite. The common 

 idea of the relation between the two is that of big 

 and little sister. 



Happily, the marguerites do not invade the 

 links. Instead of a carpet, we should then have 

 a forest of white, scarce less lovely perhaps, but 

 more troublesome. And the same toleration might 

 not be extended to troops of the bigger sisters. 



The marguerite is not without a history has 

 found its way into ecclesiastical legend, is even 

 sacred to an apostle, all of which go to show 

 that its attractions were recognised very long 

 ago. 



We learn that in the Church of Remi, at Rheims, 

 there exists a coloured window of twelfth-century 

 date. St. John and the Virgin appear at different 

 sides of the cross. The outer edges of the aureoles 

 encircling their heads are touched or rayed with 



