The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1889-10-31
BEN ROET.
PURCHASES SOME RARE
FLOW ERS.
For the DomCcrst. ]


rare beauty, but as it turned out We
were more astonished than they
at its rare ug!yness. Since the frost
has come and killed most Of them |
will tell all about IT. We ordered
some floral catalogues and after care
fully reading them and picking ont
those with the strangest, biggest
names, here is what we bought, with
it's catalogued virtues, and what 1t
turned out to be: Adlumia Cirrhosa
unique pale green climber-Al>
leghanv Vine, grew two feet, and
never blossomed; Convolvnlus-
climber msgnificently grand to per
celye- Morning Glory, our hen-house
was already covered with them
Certaura Cyanus-handsome, sports
ing. | was bound 10 have that
Bachelors Button, old as tue hills,
and nobody else would let them grow
on their place; HelIanthus--st stately
and brilliant, imagine our astonlsh
ment when 1t turned out sun flower
big as a wash tub; Messy nbryanthe-
mum--peculiarly, sublimely, bril-
liantly dazzling in the sunshine-we
wanted something that would glitter
and shine so we got that-Ice Plant,
and looked like toad frog with
| honey poured on him; POrtulaca--
90 flower in cultivation so dazzllng,-
Purslane Moss; Yucca Filamentosa
--nothing like it-Bear grass; kerria
Japonica--amazingly beautiful and
scarce--Thornless "Yaller" Rose,
ugly as my wifo's temper and plenti-
ful as her Jaw. She made ME mad this
morning by pulling my hair, for no.
thing except i kicked the cat in her
face. 1t happened this way. l got
up to light the fire this morning and
stepped on her cat, it bawled Of
course. "Get your follow blocks off
my cat" screamed my wife. | kicked
straight out as hard as | could and
sent the cat flying on the bed in my
wife's face. She came for me. |
heard her it was 80 dark | could
not see her, so | stood still as the
best way for safety but she came on
q bee-line. nothing in her hand she
brought, but she carried back sev-
eral locks of my hair with her.
have been thinking | would leave
her for it--all On the account of 8
cat but thought better of it. How
could she manage to live without
me? She often wishes | was dead
and says | do not esrn my salt, but
that is q woman's way and she Can
not help it. | wander from my sub
ect. Rlclnus-tall, majestic-Castol
Oil Bean wife got that; Passidoras
-unequalled-MaY Pops; Celosis
Cristata JaponiCa--dlstInct, cut
and ruttied like lace. We bad never
seen 8 flower like lace, so we thought
we would dumb found our neighbOrs
by getting that, regular old Prince
Feather. Well sir. that tripped one
worse than anything else. We got
many more | will not mention, only
their names were bigger than their
blossoms, and some larger than the
bush. We worked two whole DAYS
preparing the ground for the seed
| stuck a pitch fork in wlfe's foo
and she cut my toe with a shovel.
broke hoe helYe over negro's
head trying to kill lizard, wifi,
said he would eat up the seed. The
long looked for seed and plants cam,
at last and anot her day was spent il
sowing them and sticking up the
! papers so the psssers>-by could set
. their names and know we did no
= live IN the world for nothing: th,
. paper crowned sticks made me thinl
t OF stones in 8 graveyard, and grave
yard it was alas Of our hopes, tht
stones were erected efore the burr
al. now know "w hats in name
5 if it is tagged to a fower-deep de
1 ception. The seed came up, we CAV
| them wa,er and liquid manure ever
, other day, you never saw anYthin!
gov like they did till the cold spell
in May, then every thing had thl
e croup-that is they caught cold,
2 called 1t Group for want of anot1c
: name--except the shrubs, we sat III
with them O nights, covered then
with blankets, put hot bricks TO thei
=; roots gave them ammonia and ! CAV
some Of them some kerosene OF
= About half died, still We had enougt
q We were in high spirits till they be
gan to blossom and the more the,
blossomcd, the lower our spirits go
+ EOw We have no spirits when flower
are mentioned. We have saved
lot Of seed and are going t. tax
y them to The city and sell item b
! their big names, and thus get ou
u money back. What do you recko
It makes it? When folks get in a ba
! snaD they feel better If they can Uf