THE 

 GARLAND DAISY. 



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ARGUERITES may be prin- 

 cesses or peasants, but if 

 human they must be good 

 to be called Marguerites. 

 They may also be pearls or 

 flowers, and in either case 

 they must be pure and 

 pretty ; and hence white 

 daisies and chrysanthemums 

 and pyrethrums are by the 

 fanciful French termed, 

 collectively and generally, 

 " Marguerites.''^ Everywhere 

 in Paris, from the 1st of 

 January to the 31st of De- 

 cember, we may meet with 

 Marguerites of exquisite beauty. If the 

 weather is cold, they are in the glass- 

 houses of the growers or the warm shops 

 of the dealers in flowers. If the weather is warm, 

 they are flowering out of doors; and most beautiful are 

 the hedges and bands and beds made of Marguerites 

 and petunias and marigolds that are in the gardens 

 and promenades of Paris. Here they are comparatively 



