THE PANSY. 



Viola tricolor. 



> LORISTS who make a speci- 

 ality of pansies will not, 

 owing to their colour, ap- 

 prove of the specimens set 

 before us in the plate. It 

 is by no accident that we 

 disappoint the florist of the 

 model flowers he would like 

 to see portrayed, but of set 

 purpose and serious inten- 

 tion. It would he poor 

 policy in such a work as this 

 to set forth floral models, for 

 our business is to figure and 

 describe familiar flowers. 

 These pansies have been 

 selected from a garden bor- 

 der as samples of the general 

 average ; such flowers as the 

 great world loves, and, while 

 loving them, entertains no 

 disrespect for the more technically perfect flowers of the 

 florist, but recognises the broad truth that in what may 

 be termed nature's imperfections there are beauties that 



