story the good wife in Devon will tell 

 you when you admire her tulips wav- 

 ing in the scented breeze. 



Joseph Hall, Bishop of Exeter, sturdy 

 flower-lover that he was as well as 

 saver of souls, lived about seventy-five 

 years, from 1^74 to 16?6, and tended 

 his flowers in the shaded garden of 

 his palace, and wrote about them too. 

 Of tulips he says : — 



" These Flowers are true Clients of 

 the Sunne; how observant they are 

 of his motion and influence. At even 

 they shut up, as mourning for his de- 

 parture, without whom they neither 

 can nor would flourish in the morn- 

 ing; they welcome his rising with a 

 cheerfull opennesse, and at noone are 

 fully display'd in a free acknowledg- 

 ment of his bounty." 



Your true lover of flowers cares 

 not a whit whether the blosson that 

 excites his fancy is a spoiled darling 



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