The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1890-02-27
ROMANCE OF ROSES
Whence Three Popular. Favorites
Derived Their Names.
Interesting Legends Attached TO Bcsuti-
ful F1owers-Marechal Neil's Present
to Empress Eugenie-The Bon
Sileue and Jacqucmlno4.
Then hey for hardy roses
That bloom the livelong year.


Then hey for hardy roses
That bloom the livelong year.
The huge hand bouquet which . sea-
son or two ago was one Of the In
dispensable equipments Of fashion
able woman has been revived in all It's
former glory. Miss Dorothy no longer
carries in hcr hand to the opera, the
ball or the luncheon her gold-lined bon
bonniere and cut-g,ass viniagrette, but
confines them to her oxydized girdle,
while in their stead her two hands-so
big are the dimensions-clasp bouquet
of gorgeous blossoms.
Tho favorito flowers, now that the
chrysanthemum season is over, are the
bouvardia, carnations and ever delight
full roses, says tho Detroit Free Press.
These are masscd in solid semisphcre
and outlined with maiden-hair fern or
other dainty green foliage. OF the
roses the favoritcs depend upon the
color, the more intense Of the reds, yel-
lows and what are called rose colors be-
ing generally selected. OF the inter
mediate or dull shades but few arc
chosen. Tho dcbutante, Of course, car
ries white.
One Of the pretticst of tho reds, and
which enhances the beauty Of the red
toilet, now tho extreme of fashion, is
the Papa Gautier, its hne, long, large,
red buds making t especially we'll liked.
The good General Jacqueminot, Bon
Silene and Marechsl Neil will no doubt
always remain in favor with rose-wor-
shippers, few Of whom perhaps are aware
of the interesting legend attached TO
each and which has been treated by one
of our writer's of fiction. According to
this writer tho Marechal Neil was rooted
from the stem of ono Of whole basket
Of roses presented by French peasant
to tho returning warrior, sick and
Italy, when Franco aided Victor Eman-
uel in driving out the Austrians. This
particular shoot continuing to grow,
Neil determined to keep 1t, and return
ing to France placed 1t in the hands Of
a noted floriculturist, and the next
spring it bore four of the loveliest, pale
lemon-tlnted roses tho world has ever
seen. After having been awarded tho
cross Of tho Legion Of Honor he was in
vited to q reception by the then EN-
press Eugenie, to whom no presented
one of the roses, when she observed:
"And so you have proved the truth Of
what the old abbo used to say in his ser
mons at Pau about casting the bread
upon the watersi Dear me, but no was
tedious, that good abbe," continued her
Majesty, with the softest look Of retro
spection in her lovely dark eyes. "No,
M. le Marechal," said she, vivsciously,
81 shall christen this rose for you."
The Bon Silcne is said to have
sprung up from the cleft of broken
statue to tho ancient Bishop Silenus.
AS mono Of the fathers had ever seen
such a rose, one OF them said: "Let 1t
be called the rose of the good Silenus." {"
The Jaoqueminot is trifle more
fanciful in origin. An irate father slew
the lover Of his daughter, upon which
she died Of q broken heart. There was
q dump Of Louis Quinze roses growing
by tho sect where the lovers were when
the General found thom. These rose
branches were red with the youths
blood and tho girls father ordered them
cut away. The next spring green shoots
grew from the roots again, and one day
the gardener said:
Monsieur, will you come into the
gardenp There is q miracle 10 be
seen."
Truly N seemed miracle had boon
wrought. Ono splendid stem had
grown up, and on 1t WAS o bud half
opened. It wss not pale pink, as the
plkent had been, but cardinal, velvety
red-a royal rcse full OF graoo and
beauty.
The man who hsd never hinched at
the charge of the Wild Arab when he
rode side by side with Kleber, and stood
tho shook Of ten q the Hungarian and
Polish lanoers, put his hands to his eyes
and wept like boy, and the old garden
or turned his face away that he might
not see tho others grief, while he softly
whispered prayer for the soul that bad
gone to God.
'Bhall out 10 Aown, my nnasterf'
said tho old man softly after fow
minutes Of silence.
mo, 1t is the flower of God, and bet 1t
grow"
1t grew and hour1shed, and this fs the
story told OF the origin Of the queen Of
roses, which sprang from a lovers blood.
An extremely beautiful rose bouquet
is formed Of American Beauties. One
carried by New York young woman
was marvelously fragrant and lovely.
And we'll 1t might be, for the sum paid
for 1t was 800. Fancy handing over ton
shining golden eagles for roses for one
lovely young woman to carry in her
hand one evening. This bouquet was
tied with six yards OF pink ribbon,
which reached 10 the ground.
Ropes Made OF women's Hsts.