From Scottish Fairy and Folk Tales by George Brisbane Douglas, 1900.

Pushed out of bed by an ill-tempered lily, from "A Flower of Prey" by Mildred Howells, in St. Nicholas magazine, 1904.

Pollen was once considered fairy gold.  "Did you ever wish with it?  Just touch your finger to the pollen, and then wish.  After you wish, blow hard twice to get the pollen off.  If it goes, your wish will come true, but if not, you will not have your wish" (E. M. J., "A March Ramble," Primary Education 1906).  Our illustration of the pollen fairy appears in Blossoms by the Way by Carrie Adelaide Cooke, 1882.

[For Clint Marsh.]  Telling the time by puffing on a dandelion from Arthur's Home Magazine (1863).  The caption reads: "The Dandelion Clock."

An illustration from a 1908 issue of Harper's magazine.  The caption reads: "He went forth into the dawn sleepless."

An illustration from an 1858 issue of Harper's magazine.  The caption reads: "The poor summer flowers were forced to come out at unreasonable hours."

"If a man could pass through Paradise in a dream, and have a flower presented to him as a pledge that his soul had really been there, and if he found that flower in his hand when he awoke—Ay! and what then?" —Coleridge, Anima Poetae, qtd. in John Livingston Lowes, The Road to Xanadu, 1927