St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-05-11
THE CENTENNIAL YE AR.
Among the Flowers and Grains
With the Coming Incid ents.

Special Letter to the Globe.
FOUNTAIN, Mimi, May 4.-With the
coming of the month of May there comes
no warmth of the suns rays to cheer the
invalid that looks for renewed strength
in out-of-door exercise; or the woman
who is anxious to clear the rubbish
from the flower garden. but finds the
winds too cold for her endurance for
any length Of time. And then when
will she be prepared for the shrubs
and hardy plants that she has ordered,
that will soon claim her undivided
attention. and must not be neg
lected in the least or the high antici-
pations she has INDUCED in will be
blasted in whole or in part unless she
endures the chilling air, OF runs the risk
of later setting out in these cold, drying
winds from the north or northwest. The
rains have been quite Scantily supplied
us this spring and the earth is rather
thirsty at present, more so than is agree
able, still there is nothing of vegetation
that shows great need of rainfall just
now, vet we do need the warmth of the
springtime more than is agreeable to
contemplate in connection with our
struggling floral pets, that should now
be ready to unfold their buds.
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the rain comes soon and quite abund-
antly when it does come to cheer us.
The farmers as yet make no complaint
slowly growing grain, but keep moving
along toward complaining, as the time
draws near, for that crop to be planted
without needing the fears of all the
women about their flowers being so very
late in blooming. Even now some of
the farmers are planting corn, and the
chill north, or the northwest winds
keep coming over the fields and bring
chill with it. which makes one Shiver
with its penetrating power. so we leave
the garden and go into the house.
And this is the centennial year, so all
: the old ''fadS" in all things must be re-
vived.
We must have the fashionable flowers
of our grandmothers, which must be
grown under their old-fashioned names,
which was different in almost every
neighborhOod, and often without any
one that had ever heard it's proper
botanical name, just as there arc some
in these days to express astonlshmentat
your presuming to call such flowers by
any cognomen but some name that had
been given it in some locality where she
had dwelt in her childhood, and
botany was term unknown to
her as well as the botonical name
which she scornfnlly disdains to speak.
After all, the s'pot marygold' is none
the less calendula by bearing the
former name, and the new variety,
called meteor. is beauty. and tender
perennial, which have now in bloom
by treating it as perennial i'll the win
dow garden the past winter. and it
might have bloomed all winter for
aught l can tell, had it received
sunny place in the south win
dow instead of being set aside where no
sunshine reached it and where it just
lived until the sun Oh its northward
journey reached point where its rays
could finger on the plant, then came
buds and in due time the blossoms.
The old-fashion tlowers! We still grow
the cornflower that is much improved,
and the blue variety that was the favor
lite of the late Kaiser Will
helm Of Germany, now bears
his name and is very fine, and would
hardly be recognized by our grand
mammas as the blue bachelors but