flower queen among the Chinese and believed 

 to be divine by the Greeks; the Tulip, held by 

 Persian lover to be the emblem of his passion 

 for the mistress of his heart; Evening Prim- 

 rose, strange flower of mystery; Yellow Day 

 Lily, with its pretty old-fashioned name, 

 "Liricon fancy" ; the Madonna Lily, white and 

 pure as the name it bears; Rosemary, the flow- 

 er of remembrance: Daffodil and Primrose, 

 sung by our English poets; Larkspur, Fox- 

 glove, Speedwell, Blue Bonnet, Bleeding Heart, 

 Sweet Lavender, stately Hollyhock and splen- 

 did Sun Flower, all take us back to the gar- 

 dens of our childhood or suggest poetic fancies 

 as beautiful as themselves. 



The flowers themselves are touched with a 

 finer beauty and exhale a sweeter perfume be- 

 cause of what they are in our thoughts and 

 what they recall. Is not my " Dean Hole " rose 

 the more charming because it bears the name 

 of that great lover of roses, and brings to 

 my mind the many beautiful things he wrote 

 about roses? Who does not love the "wee, 



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