Chapter 11 QUAINTNESS IN FLOWERS

Throw hither all your quaint enamell'd eyes.

Milton.

I spoke just now of a love of the quaint. Quaintness, though it may exist apart from beauty, is often associated with it, and, unlike grotesqueness, has a pleasurable interest for the spectator. In flowers it is usually suggested by some abnormality of shape, as in the snapdragon; less freq