The Daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1845-1850, 1845-10-28
FLOWERS.

The English appear to me to have strong pas
sion for flowers, and | commend their taste. A
country house, without its plantation of flowers
and Towering shrubs, would be quite an anoma-
ly; and many of the humble and moss grown cot
tages have their small gardens of flowers, their
doors trellised with woodbines and honeysuckles,
and their outer walls covered with a thick mant-
ling OF ivy, and made gay with the sweetbrier
and monthly rose. The door. yards of the Eng
fish, in the country, their windows, their halls,
their palaces, all decorated with flowers
they are among the most beautiful ornaments at
their festivals; and even the highest charms of
female loneliness are studiously augmented by
these innocent and splendid adornments
Looking out of my window a short tune since,
l saw that the laborer wheeling his barrow be-
fore the door, had his button hole decorated with
a beautiful geraneum. | went into the street
and the driver of the omnibus, whom first met
wore a handsome nosegay. | met bridal party
and, besides the white favors worn by all the
servants in attendance, each one had bunch of
flowers at his breast l met the crowd of mag
nificent equipages fastening to a drawing-room
to pay their courtly homage to sovereign queen.
whose virtues and most exemplary demeanor
render her worthy Of the homage of true affec-
ton and respect; and every lady bears in her
hand magnificent bouquet; and the coachmen
and the tootmen seem to emulate each other in
the gayety and beauty of the flowers which they
all wear. AT st. PauFs at the opening of the
term OF courts, the long procession of grave and
learned Judges, who then 90 in state to church.
appears, each one, with elegant nosegay in
his hand. AT the opera, upon the breathless and
successful competitors for public favor, in the
midst OF a tempest of applause, descends perfect
shower of floral wreaths and rich bouquets.
sympathize heartily in this taste of the Eng
fish for flowers, which thus pervades all ranks,
and flowers being accessible to all, and among
the most innocent and the cheapest, of all pleas
ures, diffuses vast amount of enjoyment. They
area indeed, among the richest adornments of
Gods beautiful creationAand every where, in the
tangled forest, in the most secluded thicket, on
the ocean prairies, and even upon the desolate
heaths, are scattered about in such an endless
variety and profusion cannot fail to impress "a
rejecting and devout mind with the most CRATE
| full veneraion and delight
AS tor those persons who can see no good and
no utility in any thing beyond that which fills
the belly, or covers the back, or puts money int
the pocket, they are of the earth, earthly Such
grovelling selishness and animaism | trample
under foot with ineffable scorn. But the cultiva
ton of flowers does much for the benefit of the
mind. A taste for objects SO pure expels taste
for others which are unworthy. passion for
whati is beautiful and refined in nature often Sc
cures the mind from the intrusion of passion
low and hurtful Every advance, which is mad
in any direction for the improvement of the tast
or the refinement of manners, is so much done
for the general comfort of social life and for goo
morais.-Coleman'S European agriculture.