Flowers are generous enough.

The more you take from them the more they give.

And yet I have seen people with beds glowing with geraniums, and trees laden with roses, who grudged to pluck them, not knowing that they would bloom all the better and more luxuriantly for being culled." "Do daffodils flower better when the flowers are picked off ?" I asked, having my full share of the childish propensity for asking awkward and candid questions.

Mr.Andrewes laughed.
"Well, no.

I must confess they are not quite like geraniums in this respect.