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THE STORY OF THE HYACINTH 249 



CHILDREN AND FLOWERS . Amanda B. Harris 249 



THE VIOLET UNDER THE SNOW . R. C. Schauffler 251 



THE PRIMROSES W. G. Robertson 251 



A SAYING OF LINNAEUS John Fiske 252 



OF GARDENS Francis Bacon 253 



I KNOW A BANK William Shakespeare 254 



LEAVES OF GRASS Walt Whitman 254 



THE STORY OF NARCISSUS 257 



A WILD STRAWBERRY .... Henry van Dyke 257 



FLOWERS Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 258 



DAFFODILS William Wordsworth 261 



THE WATER-LILY John B. Tabb 262 



To A MOUNTAIN DAISY Robert Burns 262 



OLD-FASHIONED FLOWERS . . M. Maeterlinck 264 



VIOLETS Lucy Larcom 267 



EPIGRAM ........ R. H. Schauffler 268 



THE DAISY'S SONG John Keats 268 



THE RHODORA Ralph Waldo Emerson 269 



THE FIRST DANDELION .... Walt Whitman 270 



SWEET PEAS John Keats 270 



THE STORY OF THE SUNFLOWER 271 



FLOWERS William Shakespeare 272 



A PITCHER OF MIGNONETTE . . . H. C. Bunner 272 



WILD FLOWERS Richard Jefferies 273 



To THE DANDELION .... James Russell Lowell 276 



THE DANDELIONS Helen Gray Cone 276 



To A WIND FLOWER .... Madison Cawein 277 



To A WITHERED ROSE . . John Kendrick Bangs 278 



MARIGOLDS John Keats 278 



A HOLLYHOCK Frank D. Sherman 279 



WITH A SPRAY OF APPLE BLOSSOMS 



Walter Learned 279 



FOUR-LEAF CLOVER .... Ella Higginson 280 



