Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1871-03-02
About Flowers.
From the New York Mail.

from inc new toIk Mall.
1t is estimated that in New York aud
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
erlngs are made from all the city green
houses, hower-beds and hot7beds 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; aud
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 those ''cut
fowers,n there are 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
Mine are the gardens Of earth and sea,
And the starr themselves have flowers for ne V
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
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and ripe with fragrance, fling themselves
delightfully."- everywhere 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 must
clans; they float in aerial globes
across the ceilings, and hover bird
like in the archways they give
themselves with jnpresseneat to
".the German" and climb the chan
dehers 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, ana
they conspire with the music to weave
a subtle network wherein to catch the
sighs and chances that after all will be
the kespsakes 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 a dome or canopy III the form
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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 Earth Even as kind
words and houghts--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 than ever before. Dur
ing the holidays the price at the green
houses for ordinary buds was three
dollars dozen, and fine flower of the
Marechal Mel, or Gloire de Dion sells
/ for dollar. A beautiful rose is better
paid for it's petals than many poet has
been for his Immortal Hnes.
AS GIFT
|! The presentation of flowers is one of
the most refined modes of courtship ;
it bridges the gulf between love aud
pride. The Lady of Lyons, who had
never yet dreamed of smiling Oh Claude
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 ~
"Truth," says the proverb, "lies IN
a WE'LL 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 Il 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 long proofs
from the first crumpled motto that the
awkward schoolboy brushes daringly
into the scarcely opened hand" The
rose is red, the violet's blue; the pink