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t6 There is a flower, a little flower, 

 With silver crest and golden eye, 

 That welcomes every changing hour, 

 And weathers every sky ; 



" 'Tis Flora's page : in every place, 

 In every season, fresh and fair, 

 It opens with perennial grace, 

 And blossoms every where. 



" On waste and woodland, rock and plain, 

 It's humble buds unheeded rise ; 

 The rose has but a summer reign, 

 The daisy never dies." 



Montgomery. 



Large patches of the common field daisy 

 are very ornamental, when planted amongst 

 shrubs ; and the double crimson, white, and 

 variegated kinds, deserve a conspicuous situa- 

 tion for their beauty, as well as for their early 

 flowering. 



As the lawn forms a principal feature in 

 every pleasure-ground, this should also have 

 an undulating surface, where the extent of 

 ground will admit of it ; and it must be a 

 small space indeed that will not allow of a 

 bank being thrown up. The form of this 

 part should neither be too regular, nor of 

 a studied irregularity. It should appear in 

 different places to retire into the plantation, 

 so as to give the idea of greater extent, espe- 

 cially when viewed from the windows of the 

 villa. 



