She liked a bulk of colour; and when the dahlia dawned upon our gardens, she gave her heart to dahlias.

By good desert, the fervent woman gained a prize at a flower-show for one of her dahlias, and `Dahlia' was the name uttered at the christening of her eldest daughter, at which all Wrexby parish laughed as long as the joke could last.

There was laughter also when Mrs.Fleming's second daughter received the name of 'Rhoda;' but it did not endure for so long a space, as it was known that she had taken more to the solitary and reflective reading of her Bible, and to thoughts upon flowers eternal.

Country people are not inclined to tolerate the display of a passion for anything.

They find it as intrusive and exasperating as is, in the midst of larger congregations, what we call genius.