The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-03-04
SWeet-Scented Flowers.

Gay-colored flowers may attract the
eye, but it is the sweet scented kind
which command our most sincere love
and admiration.
Form and size are also attractive prop
critics OF plants, and we may admire and
enjoy the graceful leaves OF the delicate
fern or those of the lofty palm of the
tropics, somewhat as we do the lovely
cascades or magnificent landscape; but
the fragrance of flowers is the soul OF
beauty, thing to be felt, known and en-.
joyed, still remaining hidden from
human eyes.
1t is true that there are persons who
either cannot or do not appreciate the
delicious fragrance of flowers; but they
are rare exceptions to the general rule
We have only to glance over the pages
of Horticultural history to learn how
strong hold plants with sweet-scented
flowers have upon the affections of man.
kind.
Fashion may for time popularize the
gaudy.colored zinnia, the straight-laced
and stately hollyhock, or geometrical
dahlia; but their superficial merits never
strike very deep in the affections of the
masses, henced the vacillations observed
in their culture. Of course we would
not exclude gay-colored flowers from the
garden any more than we would bright
colored garments from children, for they
attract the eye and in turn lead to a
closer acquaintance with both the useful
and beautiful in nature.
For $50 years the small, colorless but
sweet-scented tuberOse has held undis-
puted sway as one of the queens of the
floral kingdom, its popularity increasing
with each succeeding generation. Won
derful discoveries have been made in the
Lily family during the past few years.
New species and varieties of large size
and brilliant colors have reached us from
China and Japan, besides those found in
California;; but who would exchange
that little gem known as the lily of the
valley for the best or most gay-colored
of them ALL Keates truthfully said:
No flower amid the garden fairer grows
Than the sweet Lily of the lowly vale,
The queen of flowers.
1t is neither large nor snowy in color,
but its sweetness has ever made it uni
versal favorite. The wall flowers, ten
weeks stocks, heliotrope and mignon'
cite possess none of the snowy kinds of
beauty; still few plants can claim more
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camellia is snowy and beautiful flower,
fit to bedeck queen; but the little
orange blossom, with its lovely fra
GRANGE, fittingly becomes the bride.
Spring will soon come again, and then
I would urge every one who cultivates
flowers to remember the sweel-scented
kinds. In making out lists of plants do
not overlook the fragrant sorts. We
have gay and snowy clematis in album.
dance but few are fragrant, the old G..
Fammula being the best of all.
Among the climbing honeysuckles the
old Belgian monthly and the Chinese
evergreen are indispensable, on account
of their swectly-smelling flowers. Talk
as we will, or even attempt to despjsc the
old-fashioned plants, few can forget the
sweet rocket or the punches of grass
pinks in "my mothers garden" If we
would have childr, carry with them
through life pleasant thoughts OF child
hood days, surround them with fragrant
flowers. Even the rose shall " smell as
sweet by any other name. Cor. ". Y.
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