Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1871-03-02

From the New York Mail.

! LII is estimated that In New York and
Brooklyn the trade in "cut flowers y
alone amounts annually to million of
dollars; and the sale of plants to the
third of million more. To supply
the vast and ceaseless demand, gath
er1ngs are made from all the city green
houses, fower-bais and hot-beds in the
suburbs, from Westchester county,
Staten Island, Long Island and New
Jersey, and frequently from Boston
and Philadelphia and even on grand
occasions, In exchange for similar favors,
from Chicago, Cleveland and st. Louis.
Newport furnishes us this winter with
many choice ferns and tea-roses; and
packed in cotton-like fine Jewels, we
shall receive in their season the trailing
arbutus from the sweet-scented forests
of New England; and magnolia buds,
orange blossoms and jessamine from
the Carolinas. And besides these ''cut
flowers" there IRE plants from every
climate of the world brought here to
blossom: and varieties produced by as
siduous cultivation, constantly renew
ing surprise until our city says like the
peri
md the stars themselves have flowers for me- y
Flowers, for different occasions are
differently arranged. At dinners they
are unobtrusive. At receptions and
evening parties the floral adornment is
more studied and profuse; while for
the dance--with its wildly gay music
and the hearts that beat in time to its
rythm--the flowers. "fresh plucked
and ripe with fragrance, fling themselves
delightfully."- everywhere-overt the man.
tells, before the mirrors, branching and
clustering and lolling in the grace of a
delicious abandon. They throng in the
japonica bushes that veil the musi-
clans; they float in aerial globes
across the ceilings, and hover bird
like in the archways they give
themselves with impressement to
"the German" and climb the chan
deliers to turn and look down upon the
| fitting beauties that pass to and fro
beneath them. And as the moments
quicken and the dance grows more
vivid, their bloom is hectic glow,
their fragrance more languishing, and
they conspire with the music to weave
a subtle network wherein to catch the
sighs and glances that after all will be
the "keepsakes of the occasion.
FOR WEDDINGS
there has recently. been an Innovation
upon the floral bell in an archway wo-
ven with colors corresponding to those
worn by the bridesmaids, and as cen
ter piece dome or canopy in the form
of an orange-blossom-its petals made
entirely of these typical flowers and its
stamens golden with their miniature
fruits chosen for the bride.
FOR BURIALs.
The whitest of the white flowers seem
to have taken to their hearts the wis
dom of Solomon, that declares: at is
better to go to the house of mourning
than to the house of feasting." The
custom of burying our dead with flow
ers grows upon us, and every bereaved
friend sends such tokens to the house
of death. At the funeral of Miss H
there were four, and at the funeral of
Miss s. there were six carriage-loads
of flowers
These pure, white flowers! The rich
have so many, the poor have very few.
Are they passports to thy loving bosom,
dear Mother Earthl Even as kind
words and thoughts-fowers of the
heart-are passports to the skies?
FOR THE BOUQUET.
The favorite flowers of the season for
the bouquet are tea-roses, lilies of the
valley and viOlets. Tea-roses bring
higher prices tLan over before. Dur
ing the holidays the price at the green
houses for ordinary rose-buds was three
dollars dozen, and a fine flower of the
Marechal Mel, or Gloire de Dijon sells
for dollar. A beautiful rose is better
paid for its petals than many poet has
been for his Immortal lines.
Asa GIFT
The presentation of flowers is one of
the most refined modes of courtship
it bridges the gulf between love and
pride. The Lady of Lyons, who had
never yet dreamed of smiling on CT ,ude
Melnotte, was lured nearer than she
knew to the net when she stopped to
breathe over his gift" Who could
have sent me these beautiful flowers 2"
"Truth, says the proverb, "ies in
well;n and we all know with what
effort philosophers draw it out But
just watch the well Love lies in; how
quickly, how lightly blue eyes have
drawn up "I faint" from the marble
cistern of the lily, and "fame" from the
rose.
OF the general effect upon the mascu-
line mind of moonlight, music, love,
and flowers we have life lonp prOofs