in a net or basket, to be hung up anywhere out of the reach of salt
water, and the seeds in a separate small box. You need not be at
any expense, any friend will supply these things. The cowslips and
daisies of your fields would be great acquisitions here." What the
daisies of the English fields became to Carey, and how his request
was long after answered, is told by James Montgomery, the Moravian,
who formed after Cowper the second poet of the missionary
reformation:--

THE DAISY IN INDIA

"A friend of mine, a scientific botanist, residing near Sheffield,
had sent a package of sundry kinds of British seeds to the learned
and venerable Doctor WILLIAM CAREY. Some of the seeds had been
enclosed in a bag, containing a portion of their native earth. In
March 1821 a letter of acknowledgment was received by his
correspondent from the Doctor, who was himself well skilled in
botany, and had a garden rich in plants, both tropical and European.
In this enclosure he was wont to spend an hour every morning,
before he entered upon those labours and studies which have rendered
his name illustrious both at home and abroad, as one of the most
accomplished of Oriental scholars and a translator of the Holy
Scriptures into many of the Hindoo languages. In the letter
aforementioned, which was shown to me, the good man says:--'That I
might be sure not to lose any part of your valuable present, I shook
the bag over a patch of earth in a shady place: on visiting which a
few days afterwards I found springing up, to my inexpressible
delight, a Bellis perennis of our English pastures. I know not that
I ever enjoyed, since leaving Europe, a simple pleasure so exquisite
as the sight of this English Daisy afforded me; not having seen one