HANDFUL I. 



FLOWERS IN MANY PIECES, " MANY PETALBD." 



" To J on deep wood 



With our baskets we will go, 

 rind where the violet loves to brood, 



And the primrose crouching law ; 

 The gentle anemone shall be ours, 



With its delicate pink and white, 

 And the bright marsh marigold's gorgeous Howers 



Shall give us their golden light," 



Let us see what we have got. Weeds every one 

 of them ! Weeds we all know them to be, but 

 flowers they are as well; we will therefore give 

 them the name indifferently, weeds or flowers, as it 

 may be. Poppies in their red, from the corn-field 

 or wayside ; bright shining buttercups from the 

 meadows, with their magnificent cousin the marsh 

 marigold; a stray wallflower from the old castle 

 wall, or garden if you will, for it is a true British 

 wilding ; lady's smock ; and a charlock — the yellow 

 flower you always call wild mustard — or, if you like 

 it better, a water-cress. Do not forget our wee 



