The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1874-06-18
CITY OF ROSES,

y SACRAMENTO, CALL, June Sd 1874.
| Though it is rather late to write upon
this topic, as the first glory OF the roses is
somewhat on the wane--st1lI it NAV be
none the less interesting, as your Junes
are always gay with roses
The Queen of Beauty is holding cour
In this, the fair "City Of the Plains" And
never did she look more regal than now
in this lovely month of roses" There is
scarcely little cottage however plain in
It's pretentlons, but has its little patch of
flowers at the front, or its rude sides COW
cred with the different varieties of climb
ers; while many are SO completely sur
rounded AMI covered with green foliage
as to be scarcely visible, others look as
the @ ueen of Fairies, and her train of
mischievops nymphs might covet them
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around The finer residences are supremely
grand. One would suppose that Flora
had robbed the whole world of all her
garnered treasures and emitted her lap in
Sacramento-Let as look which way or
where we wilbur eyes rest upon roses
Over the porch and the orchard, gateway
around the door-sill, and the garden
promenade,ln the highways and by-ways,
cluster in elegant and tasteful profusion-
or seemingly scattered broad cast by the
hand If Nature-Dlooms this flower Of
love and poetry, the very perfection of
floral realities. The graceful 'Multifora'
peeps out laughingly from the vine trel-
Used arber over my head-stretchlng it's
green arms to the root-thirty feet from
the ground-and some IF the branches, #
Strengthened out-would be even longer
than this--and filled With clusters of little
wee flowers no bigger than dime, and
delicate as q maiden's blush--as if too
modest to occupy the same proud emf
hence with her royal neighbor the stately
Queen LA Raine," The monster "Giant
de Battelle'' with flaming jacket dyed in
Venus blood, ia holding court among the
floral elves, his prime minister in coat of
"Cloth of Gold" coquetting with the
chaste "illodesta." The matcbless "Prai-
RE Queen" regardless of the pattern she
should set is nesting side by side the
Duke of York her virgin sister "Prln-
cess Adelaide" DROPS her white head,
and bushes soft behind her vail of "Moss."
prince Albert" and the fair Kentucky
bride" are flirting to thei hearts content,
while George the Fourth mods affably
TO his plebian neighbor the "Belle of Bal
timore." Strange as it may appear, there
often sprin gs from the stock. or rather
are grated into the sweet "CaGtilliau"-
as it is sometimes calied-.-or ole Madame
Dardy''--and it is no uncommon thing to-
see half dozen varieties Ia full bloom
upon one bush The old BLUSH rose
is considered the best stock in which to
graft these more delicate varieties,
| What you, in colder climates, call
monthly roses-are here called perpetual
bloomers-and some of them are in bios
som, nearly the year round-But it is not
always state days with queens, they are
frequently in desho6ilIe, and their silken
drapery made the sport Of the rough
March winds; or drenched by chilling
April ;showers-Who can talk of roses,
and live among them, and not have some
aspirations, for the pure the beautiful and
the poetical, t'Poetry is lavish of roses"
and Why should not roses and those who
love them be inspired with poetry. Not
yet to mortal ken has the Angel of the
Flowers revealed a rival 10 the rsss. a3.a
i Our city bids fair TO ont rival Persia.
and the gardens of the Nile, I might say
Ia great deal more in it's praise, but l fear
II an interrupting little Miss yellow Breast
there, who is breakfasting on deY drop
land talking to her lover under the rose.'
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