Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-05-25
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lFrom Country Life by r. E. Copeland now in press
FLOWERS AND THE FLOWER GARDEN.

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lFrom Country Life, by r. E. Copeland now in press
FLOWERS AND THE FLOWER GARDEN.
May We are growing tired of the green
house, full though it may be with flowers.
bright and fragrant Every time that we en-
ter 1t, the approach of real, out ofdoor spring
the blossonring trees and wild-fowers, have
paled its beauty; it looks to us too much like
ballroom after party is over, and we really
wonder how it could have given us so much
pleasure during the winter, we are all impa-
tlence to get the flowers out of doors, and look
at the thermometer and. the sky many times
day to see if the weather is not mild enough.
Flowers are naturally simple and retiring =
they rarely intrude on the notice of man tfiev
bend over the BROOKS lending and receiving
beauty by the reflection; they peep out
OF the grass, they fringe the roadsides
and their masses of bright color contrast
with the gray stones and dark foliage
about them; but they never insist on being
noticed; they are always subordinate to leaves
and branches and stems, and those that give
the best and most enduring pleasures, combine
modesty OF appearance with beauty of color
and delicacy of fragrance. The possessor of
bed of such flowers, however simple and
familiar, if they are perfect of their kind and
well-cared for, need not envy the owner of the
1850 efAN
England.
shall give in few pages, list OF plants
which will grow and blossom at different sea-
sons, and the sizes and colors being given, any
person can easily choose such as will produce
the effect he desires. But to get effects of col
or, you must plant large mass of the same
kind, or color, together, otherwise, only thin,
meagre and spotty result will be obtained
Elaborate plans of coloring in fower-beds
must fail and yet in arranging flowers, we
should always be guided by regard to the
relative positions which their colors occupy in
most harmonious combinations, SO that they
may, when i'll perfection, resemble a well-ar-
ranged boquet, or dish of flowers. BY fami-
liar observation of their coors in beds, both
the eye and the taste may be cultivated till we
learn to love and appreciate color, and instinc-
lively, as it were, how to combine with the
pleasantest effect A boquet or dish of flowers
so arranged that all their colors show to the
best advantage, is seldom seen. Flower. are
too often mixed confusedly, SO that there is
no distinct character obtained and the eve
gets no healthy excitement. Arrange your
flowers always so that one decided color shall
predominant in the whole, and also be massed
in some particular place. Then contrast with
the principle mass of color, those colors best
calculated to relieve and show it to advantage.
Do not entirely discomfort the main mass
of color in other parts, but by single flower
of the same, or similar hue, carry the eye
along to the other parts where the dominant
color is again to be seen.
The habit of heaping colored flowers one
upon another, and putting nothing else in the
dish, arises, think, partly from the want of
delicacy of taste, and partly from taking as
standard Of color the spectrum, or pictures
where other things, as light and shade, atmos-
phere, etc, come in to blend and tone the
whole.
To return to the colors of the garden AS
have said, arrange your plants according to
a welldigested system of colors, but remem-
Der that unity of effect and harmony is almost
impossible from all points, or for a length of
time. My flower garden, if | have in it all
the varieties l want, if / work over it for
weeks, cultivating, pruning, tying up, and
watching it, during all that time, may give me
the precise effect | have described and looked
tor-yes, longed for, for months but it will
probably only be for one day or even for part
of day, and never again during the year;
and if | can get that perfect effect for these
few moments, | shall be certainly satisfied and
repaid, and regardless of comment from those
too dull to appreciate or too critical to admire
j shall be content to work another season. just
as long, for the same few moments pleasure.
OWEN LovEJoY ON NEGRO STEALING
Owen Lovejoy, NJ c., of Illinois, in speech
before the House of Representatives, last Feb
ruary, made the following satisfactory reply
to the charge of aiding fugitives to escape.
His position will probably not be questioned
hereafter:
"a single word as to this charge of negro
stealing. Isuppose l have right to speak on
this subject, having been made the object of
this allegation. So far as any personal abuse
is concerned, it may go for what it is worth
If the object is to ascertain whether l assist
fugitive slaves who come to my door and ask
it, the matter is easily disposed of l march
right up to the confessional, and say, do. |
recollect the case of a young woman, who
came to my house, who had not a single trace
of African descent either in feature or com
plexion. According TO her own story, she
was betrothed to a man of her race, though
not of her color, and was, before her mar
riage, sold to a libertine from the South, she
being in St. Louis. She escaped, and in her
flight from life of infamy and fate worse
than death, she came and implored aid. Was
| to refuse it Was to betray the wanderer
Was l to detain her, and give her up prey
to the incarnate fiend who had selected her
as victim to offer up on the altar of sensual
ism.
Who would do it? I would not did not.
No human being, black or white, bond or free,
native or foreign, infidel or Christian, ever
came to my door, and asked for food and shelter
in the name of common humanity, or OF a
plying Christ, who did not receive it. This |
have done. This mean to do as long as God
lets me live. l shall never betray him that
I cIall hnponp a slave.
catcher. Any one who chooses, may trans
form himself into a bloodhound-snuff, and
scent, and howl, along the track of the fugi-
tive-loll out his tongue, and lap up the dirty
water that stands in muddy pools by the way
side-overtake the the rifledscared and lash
excoriated slave, Ia mother, it may be, with
her infant, the love of whom has nerved her
for the fight, thrust his canine teeth into the
uuivering flesh, brace out his fore feet, and
hold the captive till the kidnapper come, with
letters and handouts to load down ankles and
wrists, and then receive, as reward of this
brutism, pat on the head from the slave
catcher, and the plaudit, Good dog, Bose.
Sir, | never will do this. j never will de-
grade my manhood, and stihe the sympathies
of human nature. 1t is an insult to claim it.
| wish l had nothing worse to meet at the
judgment day than that. | would not have
the guilt of causing that wall of mans despair,
or that wild shrek of woman's agony, as the
one or the other is captured, for all the diadems
of all the stars in heaven.
1t is desired to call attention to this fact
Proclaim it then upon the house-tops. Write
it on every leaf that trembles in the forest,
make it blaze from the sun at high noon, and
shine forth in the mild radiance of every star
that bedecks the armament Of God. Let
it echo through all the arches of heaven, and
reyerberate and below along all the deep
gorges of hell where slave-catchers will be