The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-04-13

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Pansies are in bloom and in different
parts of the city l see many flower
beds filled with the pretty blossom.
These are the first flowers hardy
enough to bear the chilly spring
nights, and those who make a custom
of adjoining their grounds with flowers
are now busy arranging the pansy
beds. Near the pansies / very often
find larger and more p%rerentious look
ing beds of tulips and hyacinths,
which are planted in the fall, and
whose tiny green shoots are the first
heralds of spring. These are tenderly
cared for and eagerly watched until
they bloom.
In Jersey City I think the prettiest
display of these small attempts at gar
dening is in the Bergen section of the
town, where the pretty cottages have
considerable ground about them.
/ was walking through that vicinity
a few days ago, and noticed with
pleasure that in almost every door
yard were some attempts at gardening
in a small way.
PLAYING AT GARDENING.
Indeed, / discovered that it had be-
come quite a fancy of the ladies to
have a neat little patch of ground in
which they can dig, rake, hoe and
play at being gardener in a pretty
way. Sometimes the result is far
better than the friends of the fair
gardener anticipate, and a harvest of
blossoms will repay the anxious care
of many days. Even where a florist Or
gardener is given the planting to do,
the ladies often superintend the ar
rangement of the beds and the selee-
ton of the plants that are put in them.
Just now only pansies are to be
seen, and a pleasant rivalry is carried
on among the ladies who cultivate
them, in the way of producing the
prettiest shaped beds and greatest
variety of blossoms.
NO MORE PANSIES THEN.
In a few weeks there will be no more
modest pansies to brighten the gar
dens. They will be ruthlessly up
rooted and nor conspicuous flowers
will replace them.
The English m~arigold, stock,
lobelia, heliotrope, and fuchsia are
among the most popular flowers this
season, and the bright blossoms make
a great variety of color when well
grouped.
MRS. YoUNG's BEDS.
Some of the very prettiest flower
the handsome cottage of Mrs. E. r. G.
Young. on Glenwood avenue, and are
arranged entirely in accordance with
that lady's idea and taste.
Large urns of pansies stand in front
of the yerandah, and other urns of
colas. carnations and heliotrope are
scattered about the grounds. At
present the tulips and hyacinths in
star shaped and oblong beds are in
full bloom, and the air about the place
is filled with their fragrance.
Later in the season the plants are
changed many times, and only those
that bear flowers are kept. The cen
tres of the beds are always a mass of
gay eolored blossoms, but the edges
are bordered with the deeper and
richer shades Of colors and the sweet
and quiet mignonette.
1t requires an artists eye to arrange
the many colors tremendously, and
Mrs. Young exercises much skill and
exquisite taste in this respect.
IN OTHER PLACES.
There is generally a great similarity
in the arrangement of the flowers, and
the different shapes of the beds. Al
WAYS some few particular flowers will
about nearly every house.
Mrs. English, of Sip avenue, is very
fond of identifying her home in this
and has quantities of lovely
flowers in bloom all summer long.
The Misses Apgar and Misses Under
wood are among the few young ladies
who interest themselves in this
pleasant occupation land they meet
with fiattering results.
Taken altogether the gardening fad
is not very popular and but few are
really fond Of it. Most women prefer
to leave that part of home decorations
to the taste of a gardener or to go
without it rather than to expose their
faces to the sun and wind in caring
for plants.
Rather Embarrassing to the Girl.
A young IN brought a ring to a
ieweller the other day and requested
him to reset the stone, which she said
was loose. The jeweller took the ring
and said he would attend to it. As the
customer was leaving the store the
jeweller called her back and said
s'This stone is glass, ma'am-I want
YOU to understand that"
The young colored up and
exclaimed with wrath in her voice.
'sIt's no such thing-it's a real dia-
mond. GLASS, indeed!n
Excuse me, ma'am,n politely re-
Joined the jeweller. ut is nothing
more than a piece of common crystal
or glass. There is no doubt whatever
about it,
"Bnt it was a present given to me
last Christmas by a very dear friend
who wouldn't think of giving me a
sham diamond the young woman
I'm sorry, mann replied the
ieweller, somebody's been deceived
very likely, but this stone is absolutely
worthless; a chip of glass;
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