The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-07-28
NUMBER 80
Legends Of Flowers.

are written words which. nightly read
y lN lead Yea from earths ma grant sol
! To hope, and holiness and God
Cunningham.
+ Legendry lore informs Us that the rose
+ was c0uSecrated to Venus. and Cupid wore
its freshest blooms. The origin of the red
i rose = varIously explained. One accounts
/ tor II by saying that Venus was wounded
+ by It's thorns ana her blood flowed upon the
pure white and changed il red Another
attirms that Eve, wandering in the bowers
+ 81 bliss, stopped 70 kiss the wANen white
ness which biushing retains the vermilioD
+ hue. But Herrlck says that
/ A. Cupid danced among
/ The gods. he down the nectar flung:
" hlch on the white rose being shed.
Made II forever after. red.
We have heard that the origin of the
name torget-me. not" Is ascribed 10 the
following incident: Two lovers had wan
dered Tar until they reached grove all
flowers and moss beneath and leaves above
Within this wood was a dcep blue lake with
islands gemming its peaceful breast
. Those litlle bIue-eyei flowers the maiden
cried,
Q see them, Ernest, dropping d. or the brink
"i that sweet Isle! Now shall thy love be
Thou gallant knight So swear that, swim
or sink.
Those bowers around my brow thy hand shan
The lover. smiling. vowed il DER and Ger.
And leaned right sayiy toward the dowery
But fell alas, and sunk-vet not befor,
He grasped the flowers, and threw them to-
ward the spot
Where Mary sat crying, Forget
The passion flower owes its name to the
missionaries who discovered it while they
We're trayersing South America Ii is said
Its ten petals We're fanciei by them to re-
present the ten apostles, besides Judas, who
betrayed, and Peter, who denied his Mas.
| ter. The stameus compare To a radiance
or glory issuing from the cup Of the flower.
The small purple threads ut the base of the
style, to crown of thorns. The style. to
which the Indicators were bound when
scourged. The ciasper TO the cord and the
palmate leaf to the hand. The three di-
visions at the top of the style represent the
three nails; one of the five stamens being
taken for the hammer, the other four re-
main to form the cross. The time between
the opening and closing of the flowers, in
its native country, being three days COM Z
pletes the representation.
OF one tender flower Shakespeare saws
The more II Is troddeu under foot the .
faster 1t grows yet youth, the more it is
wasted, the sooner it wears The follow
ing anecdote is told of it: During the
Revolution, British officer walking in the
garden, eagerly enquired the names of the
various plants cultivated. Coming 10 one
bed he asked the mistress OF the ground
(who attended him with evident reuclance)
what was the name of that low plant The
rebels flower" replied she with firnness.
Why so calledY' questioned the officer
" Because was the bold reply, sit flour
Ishes the more it is trampled upon"
Wordsworth says
As long - there are yiolets,
They viii have a place in story
SO we must not pass them by In the ,
fourteenth century a golden violet was
awarded as Il prize to the author of the
best poem in the Provencal language. In :
the festival Of the Feralia celebrated hv the q
Romans in honor of their dead yiolets were
'trewed as offerings. But even more do we J
owe OR old friends looking up from their :
bed OF green-the pansies; for we remem-
Der OphelIa's touching words, "Ihere' 5 S
'osemary, that's for remembrance; pray
foui love, remember; and there's panses, !
heyre for thoughts" The couch Of Eden
vas formed Of
'ansies and violets, and aaphodel. G
And hyacinths, earth freshest sottesi lap.
Narcissus indicates egotism and self G
owe. Echo, the nymph, loved the beauti-
ul youth -NafClAsNS. + inulDH he sIld not =
her affection, she pinned away
until at leagVh she was changed to rock. '
nd nothing but her voice remained But a
Aphrodite avenged the injury 20 ner sex
IN Narcissus, who ia MS selflove had N
corned the lovely nymph. As he was hunt
ny one day, he went down to quench
lis thirst from Il spring, clear as a crys-
al, and beheld his own image reflected ~
herein. The goddess caused him to fall in il
Owe with his own shadow, which being
he too pined away from pure u
0nging, and ever since the flower named
fter him has continued an emblem Of
leartless beauty and self-lOve
In some climates the cactus forms dense
tickets % i1nPeryIous as not to be pene-
Iated by man. Since it has been intro
uced into our greenhouses it has been
apidly growing in favor. It's said that
nee one raised its tall bare branches amid
he blooming flower Cf q conservatory, and T
twas deemed so ugly that IL was thrown
sIde3 suddenly it put forth a hundred
lowers, and its perfume fell with every
reeze. Enraptured the gardener exclaim-
d
Most gorgeous Of the flowers Of earth
Like love, thou waitest want and shame A
To call thy beauties into birth.
q. teach me, wise and noble flowers
To train my simple heart to meet
Misfortune dark aud friendlezs hour,
with smiles like Chine, serene and sweet s
Christian Statesman.