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Evel -rvune-blithe 
Geof Chaueer 
HAUCER knew the daisy as no bot- 
anist had ever known it before him. 
The flower is immortalized in his tender verse. 
*“ And ever I love it and ever like new 
And ever I schall till that mine hart die,” 
he exclaims, with the simple joyousness of a child with its daisy 
chain, and herein has he set a worthy text for all the botanists 
and nature students present and to come, if they would gather 
the higher harvest of their calling. 
