Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1875-11-04
EVENING STAR.
Improved Flowers


lady who
Never loved plant or flower
But twas the first To faie aEav"
must have been one OF our floral inproyerS.
those who IN ke our garden flowers simple
and small, and by selection and cunning
arts give them back 10 us ia a new dress. 50
unique that their mothers and ours would
never know Them. IL IL all very well so far
IS IL goes. There is a certain amount OF faS-
clnation in improving the breed. I'VE take
lies, alas only 10 ind after awhile that we
have none at all.
When we were boys and girls. our gardens
Ieayed roses, White Damask and Provence
roses, and roses with the York and Lancaster
stripes; IL was ga Joy forever" 10 walk
smell tie fragrance OF those rose bedecked
gardens yet; and then the rose leaves were
gathered and preserved, and even material
lytresking the rose odor was ever with u.s.
But the modern florist came and laughed
al us. Those old-fashioned things were ONO
account We should have the double roses.
ana the triple roses, China, Tea and Rarhon
roSes-roses that bloomed all the time" We
took his advice, and now what we have for
roses are as much like real roses as coffee l.
ike beans. Many indeed who have gar tens
hardly krow what a real rose is II is f,rt,-
nate That old Tom Moore lived in the las
generation, or orr sympathetic young ladies
'T, 70. re Anle 20 quote win sigh,
iou may break, you may scatter the vase
as you will.
The otor Of roses will cling 10 IL still"
~ our roses would never have suggested any
thing OF that kind.
Not only has the genuine Sood old rose been
improved 10 death, but az is SOW with other fine
oIa bowers. Every good gar3Un had CAV hoI-
~ rocks, out the improver got hold OF Them
1ney inquired Tor awhile at exhibitions as
Couble as dahlias, but they are now gone
single and double alike. Nobody sees scarce
ly holly hook now a-days. sweet williams
pOlyanthuses, daisies, carnations pinks
DsnsieS. ard so on. Where are they All now
We have panSies ID is true, but we have TO
get them from the florists every spring. The
GOOD old hardy IanSy, which came up in Our
gardens every year OF their own accord. are
now no more. Even the verbena. VII, Oh came
INTO Use so late as our own generation, has
been improved so much that IL will hardly
grow at all any more. a good set OF yerbenas
- among the rarest sights In the gardens of
the present day; yet scarcely a dozen years
ago we depended so much on them that IL
was not unusual for one florist 20 ask an
Other, wonder what they did for garden
Towers before they had verbenas?''
AT This season OF the year VIC miss particu-
larly the good old chrySanthemums, of
which we had two good kindS-a large blush
white and golden yellow. It was no trou be
HOVER borders and came up as regularly
every year as an ox-eye daisy. October was
quite gay with the garden chrysanthemums
but the lmprONers introduced a new set
Win small nowers-pompones and rnatrica-
rlas-getting the flowers ieiucad down TO the
SMALLEST possible size, and the plants To mere
d%arts, that we grew ashamed of our old
ola trends, took 10 the new, aQd now we have
Improvement is all very well; bui We may
Keep on pointing our peg Till we whittle it ali
away Geg7ROffO'Ca IeiegTODh.