Excerpt from In Color
What the Narcissus is in the bright Spring-time, what the Rose is in the full Summer, so is the Chrysanthemum in that later time when shortening days and lessening heat speak to us of the waning of the floral year.
The three are Sister-Queens of the World of Flowers to most of us, and, were we told that we could have but one of them, many would say leave to us the Chrysanthemum. Leave it with us for its length of blooming time; leave it with us because it leads us kindly through those later months when Autumn is to give place to Winter, and floral Nature is to fall into its yearly sleep.
These three flowers - the Narcissus, the Rose, and the Chrysanthemum-what emblems of our human life! Bright youth, with all before us, and no cloud to dim the Sky - the Narcissus. Maturity and power - the Rose. And, then, through the more sober and perhaps sadder period of later life, when sometimes a strong faith is needed to make us realise that the gathering clouds have still a silver lining, and that there remains behind them a sun which may yet shine for us - our floral help and comforter - the Chrysanthemum.
The Chrysanthemum is a flower of great antiquity: in the character of a flower carefully cultivated and systematically improved, probably the oldest of all flowers.
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