WILD FLOWERS white and greenish 



about buildings, and in waste places generally, through- 

 out our area and Canada. It is also found in Europe, 

 Asia, Africa, and Australasia. 



DAISY. OX-EYE DAISY. WHITE-WEED 



Chrysanthemum Leucanthemum. Thistle Family. 



The fields, meadows, and roadsides of our more 

 northern and eastern states and Canada are brightened 

 from May to November with the beautiful, wheel-like, 

 golden and white flowers of the Daisy. In June, when 

 their flowering season is at its height, many of our 

 fields are completely snowed over with their starry blos- 

 soms. During the annual graduation exercises at 

 Vassar College, the famous Daisy-chain, an immense 

 rope made from thousands of Daisies, is carried on 

 dainty pillows which rest upon the shoulders of our 

 fairest maidens, and their combined beauty inspires the 

 beholder with an admiration for this flower that never 

 wanes. Even country schools have their class mottoes 

 or more frequently the word " welcome " reproduced 

 in Daisies and strung across the blackboards on 

 closing day. On Memorial Day, school children make 

 wreaths of Daisies and decorate the graves of soldiers. 

 Every lassie has "told her fortune" by plucking away 

 the white "petals" one by one, to determine the pur- 

 suit of her future husband, while chanting: 



" Rich man, Poor man, Beggar man, Thief. 

 Doc-tor, Law-yer, Mer-chant, Chief," 



or to tell whether her lover "loves me, or loves me not" 

 Various other pastimes are indulged in by separating 



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