Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1875-05-21
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Flower Thoughts and Fancies.

Fugitive poetry OF nature, and to
wild flowers most eminently belongs the
remark. Our cultivated flowers can not
be called fugitive poetry; we do not
find them scattered along the roadsides,
smiling to the brooks, nodding on hills
TO every breeze. Not they They are
collected aud placed in our houses and
Conservatives, 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 one case, as in the other. exclaim
in sort patronizing surprise: Why,
how pretty that is y
One can not, however, be very we'll
acquainted with the woodlands, without
quickly loosing 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 APP
proached, beheld or gathered.
We find all sorts of poetry speaking
from them; palest of blue hare-bells,
which suggest a dainty poem, full of ten
derness without strong passion, which,
indeed, they. as well as people, are bet
blue and white and yellow, like little
ballads, tales of unconscious heroines !;
gill-over- background, Immediately re-
minding one Of scores of verses he has
seen in the neglected corner of some
country paper with blue bits of pretti-
ness scattered here and there, but so
small that one doesn't care for the
trouble of hunting them out; and be-
sides, 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 peo-
pie we have known, of faces we have
seen, hearts we have learned to love and
trust.
Who can ever see valley lilly, with
out feeling of tender greeting, or { o
60 from the pretty to the absurd) who
can look at one of those saucy Jack-ln-t G.
pulpits, peeping out of its green sheath
and not expect it to speak, and in an
Grafton as long as a country minister's,
tell Of its relationship to the regal Gala I
Poor relations, truly How indignant
the Gala would be !
Then there are the lovely blossoms Of
the spring beauty, at which one feels as
much surprised as at finding Perdita III
shepherds cottage.
The flowers of the MULLEN are like
families in a tenement house, pretty
enough individually, but collectively
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 sugges-
.tive-golden-rod, flaming pinxter, trum-
petitioners.
And water-lilies what shall we say
of them? Lovely, fearful Undnes.
gifted with souls through unavoidabl
wretchedness. And, by the way; what
a beautiful allegory. that is, and alas
how true to life.
But if water-lillics have souls, wood
land vines certainly have no conscience.
Running along the ground, climbing up
trees, clinging to fences, making use OF
anything and everything, without so
much as by your leave" and to be
stunned like parastical friends. which,
like them, once given footing, can not
easily be removed.
1t is quite pretty amusement to trace
in flowers resemblances to ones friends.
We have often heard people say that
every human being is like some animal.
If so, some of them are certainly only
fossil remains, which by the way, has
nothing to do with the subject).
The resemblance of every ole to some
flower is quite as easily traceable
Bright insipid ve.benas, queenly lilies,
royal japonicas The readers of no.
nance are familiar with heroines who
are like them all, and can find among
their friends the same characteristics.
How peoples dispositions show fortl
in their favorite flowers. Some care on
ly for roses seeing no beauty, smelling
no perfume in anything else Such PEG
pie are apt to be sngularly pure in lif
aud actions, tender in all loves an,
Friendships. but exclusive in everything
Hosts of people prefer pansies, and ar
justly indignant with the writer VIII
said they always reminded him {
monkey faces. Lovc-n-idloness, hearts
ease, thoughts, -ceftainly til re neve
vas IA flower with so many pet name.
Peoples of liberal tastes have,
course, their favorites, but like nearl
all flowers. There certainly is nothin
which contributes more to the beauty
home than flowers, and nothing so flu
Of pretty fancies.
''Spake full well in language quaint al
olden,
One who dwelleih by the castled Rhine,
When he called the flowers, SO blue al
golden,
Stars that in ear.hs armament do shine
The Aidine
THE UPAs TREE-The story of Il
terrible upas tree, as told in the bool
furnished for the dedication of childrt