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does not fill all the ground near it. There are 

 yellow, blue, and white Crocuses. And they are 

 pleasant when nothing else is in bloom, except, 

 at least, the Snowdrop,, which departs soon after 

 the Crocus begins to appear. 



348, DAISY. I cannot say, with Dry den's 

 damsels, in one of his fine poems, that " the 

 " Daisy smells so sweet" for it has very little 

 smell ; but is a most beautiful little flower, and 

 blows without ceasing at all times when the 

 grass grows, however little that may be. The 

 opening of the Daisy is the sure sign that there is 

 growth going on in the grass; and these little 

 flowers bespangle the lawns and the meadows, 

 the green banks and the glades all over England. 

 Their colours present an endless variety; and 

 those grown in gardens are double. The field- 

 Daisy is single and about the size of a York Six- 

 pence. Those in the gardens are sometimes as 

 broad as a quarter of a dollar. And there is one- 

 sort, called the Hen-and-chicken Daisy, that has 

 a ring of little flowers surrouiiding the main flow- 

 er. This plant may be raised from offsets or 

 seed, in which last case it blows the second year. 

 It is perennial. 



349. GERANIUM wants hardiness only to 

 make it the finest flower-plant of which I have 

 any knowledge. Some give us flower with lit- 

 tle or no leaf ; others have beauty of leaf as well 

 as of flower, but give us no fragrance ; others, like 

 the rose, gives us this added to beauty of flower 

 and of leaf, but, it give us them only for a part of 

 the year. But, the Geranium has beautiful leaf, 

 beautiful flower, fragrant smell from leaf as well 

 as from flower, and these it has in never-ceasing 



