Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-04-18
FRAGRANT FLOWERS.
Successful Opening of the
Fourth Festival.
SCENES IN THE PAVILION
A Vision of Enhancing Beauty
Five Thousand Visitors
Present.

o. the reason cofaes in time TO Dloom aut
perish.
And first among, the violet, with an eye
Blue as the midnight heavens; the frai
snow.drop,
Born of the breath of winter, and on hel
brow
Pix'd like pale and solitary star;
The languid hyacinth and pale primrose,
And daisy trodden down. like modesty;
The fox glove, in whose dropping bells the
bee
Makes her sweet music; the nsrcissus
(named
From him who died for ioye;) the tangled
woodbine, -.
Lilacs, and towering lines, and scented
thorns.
The brother artists OF Blackmer, the
flower painter, used to say that he
took his palette of glowing colors and
with his magic brush dabbed here
and there until wonderously on the
canvass there grew into still-life,
flower and bud and leaf; yet in the
marvellous and realized conception
there could not be traced the form OF
genus of a single flower in the living
mass of bloom So harmonious, how
ever, was the whole, SO high his art,
that in the brilliant creation the eye
saw and the mind conceived all kinds
of flowers and all manner of forms.
So it was at the Flower Festival
which opened last evening. Entering
the Pavilion a great canvas opened
out with brilliant dabs of royal purple,
intense crimson, sulphur yellow, deli
cate pink, creamy white, bright hello
trope, azure blue, sober maroon, daz-
zling scarlet, gorgeous orange, pale
straw, rich green and thousand and
one shades and tints mingling and
forming a grand and beautiful mass
of color. On nearer approach the
glowing creation resolved itself into
separate forms and an array Of fiowery
minarets, pinnacles, pilasters,
stars, crosses, bells and globes !;
there the Alhambra and here
a mosque or marmuring fountain. On
through the deliciously perfumed air,
past the green embowered booths
ladened with a wealth of callas, hya.
cinths, sun-howers. campanulas fuch.
sias, heliotropes, nasturtiums. chry-
santhemums, camellias, rodanthes,
and mignonettes to the central bower
of roses, adorned with magnificent
profusiop of buds and blossoms from
the stately Marechal Mel and gorgeous
Jack to the pale brier, touched ten
derly like pure ocean shell with
faintest pink.
Further on are timid jasmine
buds, sweet verbenas, the full
cerulean passion flower and slum ber-
ing poppies, lords of Lethe downs,
proud yucca trees and:
Cactuses Queen might don,
If weary Of her golden crown,
And still appear as royal.
The ethereal breath of the flowers
entrances each beholder and recalls to
memory the exultation OF Valiant
over flower found in the torrid waste
of Africa and the affecting mention OF
the influence of a flower upon the
mind, by Mungo Park, in time of
suffering and despondency, in the
heart of the same savage country.
So the Court de Charney, imprisoned
for life in the fortress of Fenestrella,
cursing fate and denying God, was
taught gentleness and faith through
love of "Picciola little flower that
sprang up between two tlagstones of
the prison yard.
There are other flowers at the Fes-
tival besides those that in the gardens
grow-human fowers-the fair ladies,
young and old, who adorn and are
adorned by the flowery offerings and
en- bellishments which their skillful
and willing hands have created.
AT one booth the old-fashioned
flowers-the posies of home-are dis
played. Here al the old-time fox
gloves, Canterbury bells, asters, bach
elor's buttons, balsams, cockscombs,
the sweet-pea, violet and the love-
faced pansy. Also the flowers of the
old Franciscan monk. He lighted the
taper to the Virgin Mother
on the blowing Of the
white snowdrop, which opens its
foweret at the time of Candlemas ];
the lady's smock and the dsfodil re
minded him of the Annunciation; the
blue hare-bell of the Festival of St.
George, the ranunculus of the Inven-
ton Of the Cross, the scarlet lychnis
of St. John the Baptist's day, the
white lily Of the Visitation OF Our
Lady and the virgins bower of her
Assumption. The old monk learned
the time of day from the shutting Of
the blossoms of the Star of Jerusalem
and the dandehon, and the hour of
the night by the stars.
OPENIsG SCENES. ...
From the moment the doors were
thrown open to the public, steady
throng poured in, and soon occupied
the seating accommodation, which,
ample as it appeared at first, proved
inadequate to the demands upon it.
The invited guests entered through a
private door on Olive street, and were
ushered to seats on the stage by the
reception committee. The following
is full list of those invited, the ma
jority of whom were present:
General John G. Fremont, Mrs.
Fremont. Governor r. w. Waterman.
Mayor w. H. Workman.
Members of the City Council-J. F.
Humphreys, Presidents; Messrs. A.
w. Barrett, B. Cohn. II. Sinsabaugh.
E. G. Bosbyshell, Chas. 4. johnson.
E. A. Gibbs, John Lowell, M. Teed.
H. Hitler, Jas. Hanley, B. Chandler,
z. G. Teed, N. Mathews, M. I. Col
Inns, John Moriarty.
The Board of Education-Dr. j. S
Crawford, President; Thos. Kelley
Secretary Messrs. N. S. Embody, Q
E. Day, e. P. johnson, Professor w.
M. Freisner, Superintendent OF
Schools; Mrs. A. s. Averill, Assistant
Superintendent # Schools: Professor
Ira More, Principal Normal School.
Senators-The Hon. Stephen M.
White and the Hon. l.. j. Rose.
Members OF Assembly-The Hon.
J.R. Briefly and the Hon. G. W.