[Illustration] [Illustration] OLD FASHIONED FLOWERS AND OTHER OUT-OF-DOOR STUDIES BY MAURICE MAETERLINCK TRANSLATED BY ALEXANDER TEIXEIRA DE MATTOS ILLUSTRATED NEW YORK DODD, MEAD & CO. 1905 COPYRIGHT, 1904, BY THE OUTLOOK COMPANY COPYRIGHT, 1904, BY THE CENTURY CO. COPYRIGHT, 1905, BY DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY PUBLISHED OCTOBER, 1905 COMPOSITION AND ELECTROTYPE PLATES BY D. B. UPDIKE, THE MERRYMOUNT PRESS, BOSTON CONTENTS OLD-FASHIONED FLOWERS 3 NEWS OF SPRING 43 FIELD FLOWERS 65 CHRYSANTHEMUMS 85 ILLUSTRATIONS “I HAVE SEEN THEM ... IN THE GARDEN OF AN OLD SAGE” _Frontispiece_ “THE HOLLYHOCK ... FLAUNTS HER COCKADES” _Facing page_ 20 “A CLUSTER OF CYPRESSES, WITH ITS PURE OUTLINE” 50 “THAT SORT OF CRY AND CREST OF LIGHT AND JOY” 70 “HERE IS THE SAD COLUMBINE” 74 THE CHRYSANTHEMUMS 92 OLD-FASHIONED FLOWERS [Illustration] _OLD-FASHIONED FLOWERS_ This morning, when I went to look at my flowers, surrounded by their white fence, which protects them against the good cattle grazing in the field beyond, I saw again in my mind all that blossoms in the woods, the fields, the gardens, the orangeries and the green-houses, and I thought of all that we owe to the world of marvels which the bees visit.