The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1885-09-19

PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 18th, 1885.

PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 18th, 1850.
The flowers at the Park are now at
tracing the attention the hot weather
would not allow. After the denizens of
our great city have gotten through their
summer vacations they begin to think of
the green landscapes of our famous FAR
mount Park. After looking through |
Horticultural Hail. where the tropical
luxuriance of far off zones are displayed |
in miniature forests, and the dampness |
of the humid atmosphere is heavy with |
the scent of the palm, the banana and
the orange trees, you go out on the slop-
ing terraces and see the varied forms into
which man has worked natures grand
productions, wonderful to look at and
more amazing to contemplate. In one
miniature lake were water lilies which
carried the mind back to the age when
all was pure in its virgin beauty. Red
blue and white flowers, with yarigated
leaves covered the park, and on top of
some of the expansive leaves sat frogs
arrayed in all the green hues which ma
ture has arrayed them.
The morning freshness gives the WISH
tor to the Park the best opportunity of
viewing the charms which lie about HOr-
ticultural Hall. On Sundays especially
the crowds in the afternoon are annoy
ing, for you can hardly get a good smell
of an enticing plant, without some one
running into you and driving you nose
far into the flower running the risk of
getting it stung by some busy bee. And
the ears are not so crowded in the morn
ing, another reason why our visits should
be made at this particular time. Street
car travelling is a bore, although you are
forced from circumstances to adopt that
mode of conveyance. TO be packed in
so narrow space with sixty or seventy
souls, in warm weather, is not a condi-
ton very far removed from the regions
below.
/, Very few people, as a rule, understand
the NOMENCLATURE of flowers, and TO be
, silent listener to the peculiar and fantas-
tic names given by visitors who are ex-
, planning the different varieties, is indeed
amusing. "We've got one of Them" they
) begin. ooh, isn't it beautiful" whats
it name?" is asked "Why that is mack
areil." "A mackareil ?" exclams the I'M
sophisticated friend. Eyes, a mackarel p
"Well, | declare that sounds like some
thing we have for breakfast" said the
question. ooh, well don't you know
, what / mean though it had something
to do with the fish business. Its a fish
gcranium !"
= was down to Green's Patent medicine
grounds the other day, and spent an hour
or so going over his extensive manuiac'
tory and pleasure park. DIR. Green him
sof is very good representative Of
American pluck and enterprise, and has
now one of the most valuable patent
medicine properties in the world. His
quiet and undemonstrative style is moi
y in keeping with the great activity hi
: displays in putting his medicine on the
market. His contract with the printe
is for 100000 almanacs, and his agent
- will put three different designs in colo
" pictures before the public this year. II,
keeps Il small steam yacht, on which III
=. often gives pleasure cruises, taking as
does Il small stream which seems to b,
navigablc only to this small craft, befor
i, it reaches the broad eXpanse of the Della
VI ware. His pleasure grounds around hi
large mansion are beautifully laid out
;" and his fish pond is so stocked with ifs
as to be always muddy, He says the
y are black bass and are constantly burrow
~ ing in the mud at the bottom. a rust
old canon which was fished up out of tn
,ei river opposite Red Bank, having bee
!" thrown overheard from some of tn
'.'' naval vessels of the Revolution to escar
~ capture, lies on the grass in front of h
~ mandatory. He is to mount it SON
y day and will shoot all the unbiious
W. his medicines who ventured near. d
=! Green's place is at Woodbury. and it
az through his fundamentally that the eli
'o of Woodbury. has advanced so fast
us prosperity and beauty. Electric ligh
Ior and fine drives are found here, and the
are few opening towns that show sue
'oi' decided signs of Enterprise all of whiC
ne is traced to the patent medicine bus
a'' ness. 1t would be well for those tow
hs' that feel shakey to ask for DIR. Green
by move among them, and perhaps he mig
the get rid of their miasmitic stagnation.