WILD FLOWERS WHITE AND GREENISH 
about buildings, and in waste places generally, through- 
out our area and Canada. It is also found in Europe, 
Asia, Africa, and Australasia. 
DAISY. OX-EYE DAISY. WHITE-WEED 
Chrysdnthemum Leucdnthemum. Thistle Family. 
The fields, meadows, and roadsides of our more 
northern and eastern states and Canada are brightened 
from May to November with the beautiful, wheel-like, 
golden and white flowers of the Daisy. In June, when 
their flowering season is at its height, many of our 
fields are completely snowed over with their starry blos- 
soms. During the annual graduation exercises at 
Vassar College, the famous Daisy-chain, an immense 
rope made from thousands of Daisies, is carried on 
dainty pillows which rest upon the shoulders of our 
fairest maidens, and their combined beauty inspires the 
beholder with an admiration for this flower that never 
wanes. Even country schools have their class mottoes 
or more frequently the word ‘“ welcome” reproduced 
in Daisies and strung across the blackboards on 
closing day. On Memorial Day, school children make 
wreaths of Daisies and decorate the graves of soldiers. 
Every lassie has “told her fortune” by plucking away 
the white “petals” one by one, to determine the pur- 
suit of her future husband, while chanting: 
“Rich man, Poor man, Beggar man, Thief. 
Doctor, Law-yer, Mer-chant, Chief,” 
or to tell whether her lover “loves me, or loves me not.” 
Various other pastimes are indulged in by separating 
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