Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1875-12-21
FLOWERS.

OF our tasty people have nearly all
passed away before the chilly whis-
perings of the approaching season.
These smiles of Dame Nature like
not the aspect of frowning Winter,
and when he shakes his hoary locks
they hide themselves beneath his
snowy mantle and sleep until the
twittering birds and the genial sun
light herald the approach of Spring.
But there is one exception to this
general rule, for some ladies do not
like to have their poseys buried from
sight so long, but rather see them
live in their beauty and sweetness /;
and, to do this, keep them in their
houses. True, this requires some
little extra trouble and work, and
many ladies, not wishing to admit
their indifference to flowers, say they
have not the time or room. This is
not always SO, for we have seen a lady
keep her house in excellent order, do
all her house and kitchen work for a
family of five or six, and yet besides
her birds "a family of eight, she
| attended to her flowers outdoors in
the warmer seasons and indoors dur
ing the cold. The other day we
called on friend of olden days, Mrs.
Harris, Of Gold Hill, long noted for
her rare and beautiful varieties of
shrubs, blossoming plants, viues, ETC.,
and was much surprised to see in a
large bay window so many of the
20 or 30 plants she has housed
blooming and filling the room with
fragrance. In the center stood a
stately Gala lily, while arranged
around were eleven varieties of
fuchsias, some of them filled with
blossoms Of surprising beauty; in
different portions of the room Eng
fish and German parlor ivy entwined
in their slender arms the pictures of
departed ancestors; a beautiful japo-
MICA or camelia was just opening its
winter treasures, but none exceeded
in sweetness the white jessamines and
mignonette-so modest and yet so
rare. We also saw q fine Madeira
vine frescoing the ceiling more deity
than any Italian artist could. OF
gcraniums, there appeared al endless
variety, double and single, some bios
soming and others with the most
quantity tinged leaves imaginable
hanging baskets with green moss,
ferns and many other plants whose
names we cannot recall. Close by
the blooming chrysanthemums stood
an Australian acacia. whose long,
slender leaves close up and go to
sleep, as it were, with the setting sun
and unfold as its first warm rays
touch the window. We have forgot
ten the names of many, and some are
not winter-blooming, but are kept in
the house that they may do better
when set out in the Spring. But the
window was the choicest bouquet we
have ever seen in this State, and with
those we have already mentioned we
noticed azalias, symila, carnations,
lobelias, hyarangeas and heliotropes
There appears to be a poetical SINH
larity between a cultivated woman
and the blossoming sweets of earth,
We find one on the bloody battlefield
ministering to the wounded and
dying, and after the smoke has passed
away, the carnage over, and the dead
buried, these beautiful mementoes OF
peace and purity spring up over and
around the graves and trenches; and
even the blue bell has been seen to
greet the passer by from the hollow
of an exploded shell which had car.
ried death on its wings of fire, but its
mission of woe being past, the gentle
flower comes as promise--as q
mute teacher that after the battle and
woe of life, there is peace Of heaven