JULY 151 



farmer, our sister State has induced us to 

 entertain an angel unawares, even though it 

 be a breezy one, as becomes a western angel. 

 This dashing beauty belongs to a most 

 aristocratic family, indeed to the family 

 that scientists have come to put at the very 

 summit of the flower world. And here the 

 botanist and the flower lover are for once 

 agreed, and both opposed to the farmer. 

 For in this splendid group come the bright- 

 faced dandelion and the white-rayed daisy, 

 the blue-eyed chiccory and the sumptuous 

 golden-rod, the haughty chrysanthemum 

 of the fashionable flower show and the self- 

 sufficing thistle of the country road-side, 

 the stately "queen of the meadow" and the 

 richly purple iron- weed. But which of 

 them all gives to the landscape it adorns 

 a more instant challenge or a cheerier note 

 than Susannah of the dark brown eye ? 



NOT A FLOWER BUT A BOUQUET 



The truth of the matter is, that in this 

 entire group what is commonly called a 

 flower is not at all a flower but an entire 



