St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-05-30
THE CHILLED FLOWERS
And Their Needs, and the Culture
Requisite for the Plants.


Special to the Globe.
FOUNTAIN, Mimi, May 27.-The rains
have been falling at intervals, and
mostly at night. for the past two weeks,
which has made it very fine for the
flower gardens and transplanting or
setting out of the new plants that have
been purchased, and particularly for
new shruobery.
Vegetation is said to be farther adj
vanced than usual the present season.
| but on Tuesday night hard frost Oc-
j Cured and laid many tender plants low.
| One woman had planted plat of
ground with extra early potatoes and
they had grown into the budding. or
rather were we'll budded to bloom, but
+ the frost Frustrated them and blighted
her prospects of ready money in the
near future. Ali the gardens suffered
the loss of tomatoes and some other gar
deu products that are rather tender. In
the flower garden there were many
plants destroyed that promised well on
Tuesday morning.
Many fields of corn which had got
above the ground We're touched in a
greater or less degree. GrapeVineS that
were budded suffered badly. Trees
that had been set out for shade were
completely robbed Of every green leaf,
and left very misunderstanding. Alto
gether the frost was rather hard OH
nature and pinching cold on humanity,
where the house had gone through the
spring cleaning and the stoves were in
their summer quarters and the rooms
could not be warmed.
The first three days of last week will
remain in the memory of many as the
coolest of this spring, so far; and yet
with the cold winds and rain, and frost,
the few gardens that had early flower
ing plants showed up bright, and very
pleasing to look upon, and almost made
one forget to shiver in the chill and
damp air that was abroad.
Not until Thursday did the sun shine
with any apparent and genial warmth.
nor was it possible for woman thin in
flesh to be out in the garden long
enough to take proper care OF plants
they needed to be cared for just then, SO
that had to be left to the tender mercleS
of wind and cold weather, which was
not inspiring and hopeful of future
brightness and beauty. Alas and alas!
+ The cold never killed one weed or in
it seem to prevent their growth or in
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least. so far as | can discover.
There are people who will look upon
the flowers of your garden and beg
plants of you and feel agrieved and
mortally offended if you decline to
share with them, and so long as you
have one left they will want it; and to
such as want flowers, is it not better to
purchase where they are kept for sale?
Please, my lady readers. do not go beg
ging flowers, roots and bulbs unless
YOU can give something OF the kind of
equal value. Purchase your own, a few
at a time If your purse is a shallow one
like my own, for inStance-then you
will feel quite independent.
You would not go to any lady and
ask her to give you her best dress or
her bonnet, or wearing apparel, yet you
want that which she has paid her money
for, and between her flowers and her
asking for your dress or bonnet to wear,
there is no difference at all. IT you can
make an equal exchange with her.
make it: but do not make beggar of
yourself. You may have flowers from
bulbs before the frost has entirely left
the ground, and from other bulbs until
the columbines and ivieS, in all their
varieties of color come into bloom, and
with other roots of, perennialS until the
ANIMALS come OH the scene to make til e
garden beautiful from early spring until
the late fall or the beginning of winter,
and then you will want them all winter,
and the year around. too. This is easily
done, but it takes time unless you have
/ full purse to commence at once, or
can exercise self-denial and use the
money that was to purchase new fall
or winter dress to purchase flowers
with and get bulbs to bloom early and
later on, for they are the only early
blooming plants that we have, and they
are sold very cheap, too. SO that a few
dollars 60 a long Way toward making "a
crack garden of flowers" as little boy
of this town calls my garden. There
will be more pleasure and enjoyment
of the flowers. as we'll as a sense of in
dependence that they were bought and
paid for, and not begged.
Mrs. MARTHA CRANDALL.