Chapter

 1 2 |       thinks of nothing but of flowers and of God who made them.
 2 5 | tapestry embroidered with gold flowers, the wonderful manufacture
 3 5 |       wave of the stems of his flowers. His productions also began
 4 6 |        in 1653, -- "To despise flowers is to offend God." ~From
 5 6 |     same year: -- ~"To despise flowers is to offend God. ~"The
 6 6 |      the most beautiful of all flowers. ~"Therefore, he who despises
 7 6 |       a blight on the innocent flowers which had excited it. ~When
 8 6 |   Baerle. He wanted to see his flowers, too; he had the feelings
 9 6 |     down with their string the flowers among which they were struggling,
10 6 |      next year he had obtained flowers of a perfect nut-brown,
11 7 |       the country of beautiful flowers. But, alas! these are no
12 7 |      restored to this queen of flowers its natural distinctive
13 11|       arts, of science, and of flowers. He explained that, since
14 11|       I have been very fond of flowers. That was at a time when
15 11|  boldness. Well, Rosa, I loved flowers dearly, and I have found,
16 11|        as dearly as I loved my flowers. Don't interrupt me, Rosa
17 18|   objection to his cultivating flowers. ~"And how do you know that?"
18 19|        proudest and noblest of flowers, rather than upon poor Rosa,
19 20|       the realm of nature; the flowers of spring are succeeded
20 20|  spring are succeeded by other flowers; and the bees, which so
21 20|     sweet girl, with my loving flowers." ~"I am not displeased
22 22|     Thou hast allowed two such flowers to grow at the grated window
23 25|    earthenware, with yellowish flowers in a basket on three sides?" ~"
24 26|     the water, of beer, and of flowers, sometimes even of that
25 26|  before. ~"And you are fond of flowers?" continued Mynheer van
26 26|       about the cultivation of flowers." ~"So it is, sir," Rosa
27 28|            28. The Hymn Of The Flowers~      Whilst the events
28 28| between his teeth the "Hymn of Flowers," -- a sad but very charming
29 31|        Haarlem went wild about flowers, and tulips received their
30 31|  having advertised its love of flowers in general and of tulips
31 31|       heart as innocent as the flowers which he held in his hand. ~
32 31|     its gardeners. Worshipping flowers, Haarlem idolised the florist. ~
33 32|      Haarlem? as I see so many flowers." ~"It is, indeed, a feast
34 32|       indeed, a feast in which flowers play a principal part." ~"
35 32|        as you are said to love flowers, and especially that the
36 33|      made the rudest keeper of flowers in the whole of the Seven
37 33|      both in May, the month of flowers. ~As a matter of course,
38 33|        wife and the culture of flowers, in the latter of which