The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1888-01-29

XVI.
BELLS PERENNIS-DAISY.
This well known little plant il q native
of Europe but has been introduced IN
this and other countries since many
years. 1t belongs to the natural order
of Composite and here to third tribe
called, Asteroidee, subtribe 1, Asterinee.
The plant is perennial, acaulescent, the
leaves all spring from the creeping root
and are obovate spatulate, crenate, hav-
ing broad mid RIB. The scape or flower
stem is smooth, two to five inches in
height and supports the terminal flower;
and pistilIate, receptacle conical and
naked, adrenia marginless, pappus none.
The name Bells is derived from the
Latin word belIus that means pretty
daisy. The daisy has been prominently
the poets flower, for from the father of
a word of grace for the lovely flower.
1t is divine gift to the poet to see
beauty in all the manifestations of the
Creator from the stars of earth to the
glittering hosts above, yet with many
wanting this precious gift. the claim to
beauty is denied to everything ''cou,-
mon" and the golden center of the daisy
with its chaplet Of petals tipped with
light pink is often spoken Of as of no &C
count. Although the flower is so small
and delicate, it is in reality composed
Of hundreds of flowers, for every one
Of the petals, white above and red be-
meath. forming kind of crown around
the flower is in reality true flower as
perfect as a lily or tuberose, as are also
those tiny points in the center. The
flower was anciently held in the highest
esteem as an emblem of fidelity and
was often worn by gallant knights at
tournaments.
..when in his scarf the knight the daisy bound
And danes, at tourney shone with daisies
crowned"
It may be well accounted an emblem
of fidelity as it may be found in bloom
every month of the year to which Mont
gomery alludes thus:
1.-The rose has but summer reign
The daisy never dies"
Abu Nawas exalts it thus: Behold the
garden of Eden and of the earth and
consider the emblem of those things
which divine power has formed daisies
or eyes of silver everywhere disclosed,
with pupils like molten golden, united
to an emerald stalk, those avouch that
no one is equal to God"
The whole plant when in bloom is used
in medicine, especially the tincture, OBJ
tanned by expressing the juice. One
part of the juice with an equal part of
alcohol is the formula. 1t is recon-
mended in diseases when boils appear
all over the body, bruises with extrav-
asated blood, sprains in ankle and wrist,
whitlows, in boils beginning as slight
pimple with burning pain in skin, in
creasing until it becomes very large, of
a fiery purple color and very sore with
burning and aching pain in it accom-
panied with headache of a cold aching
when the brain feels as if
with vertigo. Daisies can
be raised in the same way rs primroses
as stated in our previous article. Daisies
have been known since time immemorial
especia lily in Europe to many a sweet
heart as fortune tellers, and if one of
our readers ever should have an oppor-
tunity to watch young lady how Gag
erly she is waiting for the last answer
of the flower leaf picked of at last, then
you be astonished what confidence the |
young ladies have in the daisies. For |
while picking off one leaf after another |
the important questions are repeated: |
Does he love me, does he not, to which |
Goethe alludes in his Faust
LEUCoJUM vERNUM-THE SNOW FLAG,
SNOW DROP, ETC.
Wherever we wander towards the
'hine or in tears, new forms Of vegeta-
Die life spring up or old forms in re-
aewed beauty gladden. our every step. |
Here as we look over the fence of Capt.
Adams garden, we have the pleasure to
meet a perfect stranger, yet as it seems
morning star of flowers.
The frail sno~drop,
Born of the breath of winter, and ON his brow |
Fixed like pale and solitary STAR
Snow Flake belongs to the AmaryIlis
amily, has coated bulb which pro-
luces numerous linear leaves, scape one
o two lowered, sepals white tipped,
With green or yellow, with divergent
ems, sepals and petals subequal, often
hickened at the apex, stamens epigy-
Gus, included and style erect. 1t is one
the fairest and purest blossoms of the
ear, reminding us of .'Life's bright and
Apply morning, all purity and beauty"
he flower looks so delicate and fragile,
> it rises between the long, narrow
,aves, in vernal green and virgins
Thite arranged, that we might ON our
rst observation readily conclude that so
.ir and frail flower must, of neces-
ty, be swept away by the first rough
ind and storm. But nature protects
lese little children of Flora often better,
nan in many cases the laws of the
tate the rights of the people, of the
TX payers who have to suffer year after
ear from the wrong done to them by
10 Indian River alias Jacksonville,
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