The Arizona sentinel., 1891-03-21
ROMANCE OF ROSEs.]
Whence Three Popular Favorites
 Derived Their Names,
Interesting Legends Attached to Beautis > full Flowers-EIarechaI NeiPs Present / < to Empress Eugenie-The Bon
 SiIene and Jaoqueminots
Then hey for hardy roses \

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 a fashion
 able woman has been revived in all it's
 former glory. Miss Dorothy no longer
 carries in her hand to the opera, the
 ball or the luncheon her gold-lined bon
 bonniere and cut-giass viniagrette, but confines them to her oxydized girdle,
 while in their stead her two hands-so
 big are the dimensions-olaspa bouquet
 of gorgeous blossoms. -77SS$sg>s.fsz :! 2as-ss '
 ! The favorite flowers, now that the
 chrysanthemum season is over, are the
 bouvardia, carnations and ever delight
 ful roses, says the Detroit Free Press.
 These are massed in solid semisphere
 and out ined with maiden-hair fern or
 other dainty green foliage. Of the
 roses the favorites depend upon the
 color, the moro intense of the reds, yei-
 lows and what are called rose colors be-
 ing generally selected. Of the inter-
 mediate or dull shades but few are chosen. The debutante, of course, car TisS white. -------. - ] Oneof the prettiest of the reds, and
 which enhances the beauty of the red
 toilet, now tho extreme of fashion, is the Papa Gautier, it's fine, long, large, red buds making 1t especially well liked. The good General Jacqueminot, Bon Silene and Marechal Neil will no doubt always remain in favor with rose-wor- shipers, few of whom perhaps are aware of the interesting legend attached to each and which has been treated by one of our writers of fiction. According to this writer the Marechal Neil was rooted from the stem of one of @ whole basket of roses presented by 8 French peasant to the returning warrior, sick and wounded, after his noted heroism in Italy, when France aided Victor Eman- uel in driving out the Austrians. This particular shoot continuing to grow, Neil determined to keep it, and return ing to France placed it in the hands of a noted foriculturist, and the next spring it bore four of the loveliest, pale lemon-t tinted roses the world has ever seen. After having been awarded the cross of the Legion of Honor he was in- yited to reception by the then Elm press Eugenie, to whom he presented one of the roses, when she observed: ''And so you have proved the truth Of what the old abbe used to say in his ser mons at Pau about casting the bread upon the waters! Dear me, but he 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, vivaciously, .'I shall christen this rose for you" < k The Bon Silene is said to have sprung up from the cleft of broken statue to the ancient Bishop Silenus. AS none of the fathers had ever seen such rose, one of them said: F'Let it be called the rose of the good Silenus.'' The Jaequeminot is trife moro fanciful in origin. An irate father slew the lover of his daughter, upon which she died of broken heart. There was a clump of Louis Quinze roses growing by the seat where the lovers were when the General found them. These rose branches were red with the youths blood and the girls father ordered them cut away. The next spring green shoots RT0W 1IOu1 GllS IOOGS dl1l, d1o O1lO OdN the gardener said:
 ] "Monsieur, will you come into the garden? There is a miracle to be Truly it seemed miracle had been wrought. One splendid stem had grown up, and on it was bud half opened. It was not pale pink, as the parent had been, but cardinal, velvety red-a royal rosa. full of grace and beauty.
 : The man who had never finched at the charge of the wild Arab when he rode s.de by side with Kleber, and stood the shock of ten of the Hungarian and Polish lancers, put his hands to his eyes and wept like boy, and the old garden CT turned his face away that he might not see the others grief, while he softly whispered a prayer for the soul that had gone to God. t, ''Shall I cut 1t down, my 1naster?'' said the old man softly after 2 few minutes of silence. ''No; it is the flower of God, and let it grow ! It grew and fourished, and this is 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 well it might be, for the sum paid for it was $1OO. Fancy handing over ten 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 to the ground.