Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1875-06-11
Flower Thoughts and Fancies.

Flower Thoughts and Fancies.
Somebody SAYS that flowers are the ''fu
citive poetry ofnature; and to wild flow
ers most eminently belongs the remark
Our cultivated flowers cannot be called
fugitive poetry we dc not find them
scattered along the roadsides, smiling to
the brooks, nodding on hills to every
and placed in our houses and conseryato-
ries, labeled, and surrounded by the costly
accessories which belong to all volumes of
collected poetry.
But with wild flowers it is different
We come upon them, indeed, as upon
scraps of poetry tucked into the corner OF
some newspaper of everyday life. and in
the ene case, as in the other, exclaim in
sort Of patronizing surprise: why, how
pretty that is :"
One can not, however. be very well ac-
quainted with the woodlands, without
quickly losing any feeling of patronage he
may once have had. There are so many
dainty wild blossoms to harmonic with
any mood in which they may be approach
ed, beheld, or gathered.
We find all sorts of poetry speaking from
them: palest of blue hare-bells, which sug-
gest dainty poem, full of tenderness with
out strong passion, which indeed, they, as
well as people, are better without. Then
there are violets, blue and white and yell
low, like little ballads, tales of uncon-
scious heroines; gill-over-the ground, inn
mediately reminding one of scores Of YER
ses he has seen in the neglected corner OF
some country paper. with blue bits OF
prettiness scattered here and three, but SO
small that one dosn't care for the trouble
Of hunting them out; and besides, like
those scraps OF verse, there is so much OF
it that it can be had at any time
But flowers, also, tell US other things
they are vivid reminders of people
we have known, of faces We have seen,
hearts we have learned to love and trust.
Who can ever see valley lilly. without
feeling OF tender greeting, or Ito go from,
| the pretty to the absurd) who can look at
/ ono OF those saucy Jackin-th -pufpits,
tpeeeing up out of irs green sheath, and
not expect il to speak, and in an Grafton
/ as long as a country ministers tell of It's
relationship to the regal calla 7 Poor re-
lations, truly. How indignant the caila
would be,
| Then. there are the lovely blossoms OF
! the spring beauty, at which one feels as
much surprise as ut finding u Perdita in q
/ shepherds cottage,
! The flowers Of the MULLEN are like fam,
| lilies in tenement house, pretty enough
| individually. but vely-well, they d
/ be rather unpleasant guests, to say the
! least of it.
/ Autumn flowers are like stories of the
tropics. Their very names are suggestive
-golden-rod, flaming -pinxter, trumpet
/ flowers.
And water-lilies W hat shall we say o
theml Lovely, fearful Undiness, gifted
with souls through unavoidable wretched
ness. And, 10y the way, what beautiful
allegory that is, and alas how true to life
But if water-lilies have souls, woodland
vines certainly have no conscience. Run
ming along the ground. climbing up trees
Iclinging To fences, making use of anything
and everything, without SO much as by
your leave" and to be stunned like para
stical friends, which, like them, once Civ
en- footing, can not easily be removed.
1t is quite a pretty amusement to trace
in flowers rcscmblances to ones friends
We have often heard people say that eve
~ human being is like some animal, ii
so, some of them are certainly only fossil
remains, which, by the way, has nothing
To do with the subjcct).
The resemblance of every one to some
flower is quite as easily traceable. Bright
insipid verbeans, queenly lilies. royal ia
popicas. The readers of romance are ia
miliar with hcroines who are like then
ALL and can find among their friends th'
same characteristics.
How peoples dispositions show forth IL
their favorite flowers Some care oni.
for roses, seeing no beauty, smelling NJ
perfume in anything else. Such people
are apt to be singularly pure in life ano
actions, tender in all loves and friendships
but exclusive in everything. Hosts o
people prefer pansics, and are justly in
r dignant with the writer who said tha
they always reminded him ofmonkey faces
Love idleness, heartsease, thoughts
certainly there never was flower with 81
many pet names. People of liberal taste
have. of course, their tavorites, but lik
nearly all flowers. There certainly i
nothing which contributes more to th
beauty of a home than flowers, and moth
ing so full of pretty fancies.
'.Spake full well in language quaint and older
one who dwelleth by the caStled Rhine,
When he called the flowers, SO blue and golden
stars that in eGrth's armament do shine,
The ANine.