You may eat this one if you like!" "No, no, auntie," laughed Nellie, "I'm not quite so hungry as that! But, oh, auntie, here are some of those lovely big daisies we saw when we first came in the park." "Those are the daisies that are called the `ox-eye' or moon daisy, my dear," explained Mrs Gilmour.

"You might call them the first cousins-- though only, mind you, a sort of poor relation--of the choice marguerite daisy that gardeners cultivate and think so highly of.

Here, too, dearie, I see another old friend of mine, whose petals fall just like snow-flakes on the grass." "It is almost like the honeysuckle," cried Nellie.

"How sweet it smells!" "Like its name, dearie," replied the other.

"It is called the `meadow- sweet'; and a delicious perfume can be extracted from it by infusion in boiling water.