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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 202

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IN THE SUNFLOWER GARDEN. HERE BESIDE THE MODERN STOCK FLAUNTS THE FLOWERING HOLLYHOCK. actly the same as heliotrope, and is a namealso given to the sunflower. The wind, too,has a flower named for it —the anemone. Shakspere makes Ophelia say, There srosemary, that s for remembrance: there ispansies,… … 1 do not know why rosemary should be for re- when it was still a single flower like the daisy,membrance. It is not a kind of rose, as you and some wild asters are still called daisies. Andmight be led to believe. Its name comes fromthe Latin words rosand marinus andmeans sea-dew. And the daisy,…

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