Tombstone epitaph., 1891-02-22
Tben hey for hardy roses

dIspensable equipments of a fashion able woman has been revived in ali it's former glory. Miss Dorothy DO longer carries in her hand to the opera. the ball or the luncheon her gold-lined bon bonniere and cut-g ass viniagrette, but confines them Co her oxydized girdle, while in their stead her two hands-so big are Lhe ediIoeusiOns-Clasp 6 bouquet of gorgeous blossoms
 The fayorite 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 a solid ssmisphere and out Ined with mRiien-hair fern or other dainty green foliage. Of the roses the favorites depend upon the color, the more intense of the reds, yell lows and what are called rose colors be- ing generally selected. Of the inter mediate or dull shades but few are chosen. The debu Ianse, of course, car ries white.
 One of the pre:tiest Of the reds. and which enhances the beauty of the red toilet, Row the extreme of fashion. Is the Papa GauJier. it's fine, long, large, red buds making { especially we'll liked. The good General JacqueminOt, Bon Slene and Marechal Neil will no dou bt always remain in favor with rose ~Ur- 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 fctiOn. According to this writer the Msrechal Neil was rooted from the stem of one of a whole basket of roses presented by A French peasant to the returning warrior, sick and wounded, after his noted heroism jn Italy, when France 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 foricullurist, and the next spring 1t bore four of the lOveliest, pale letnoD-tInted roses the world has ever seen. After having been awarded the cross of the Legion of Honor he was in- vited to a reception by the then Em- 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 Wa:~rs! Dear me, but he was tedious, that good abbe," continued Ler Majesty, with the softest look of retro spection in her lovely dark eyes. No, NJ. 10 Marechal," said she, vivaciously, II shall christen this rose for you"
 | The Bon Siiene is said to have sprung up from the cleft of R broken statue to the ancient Bishop Silenus. As none of the fathers had ever seen such a rose, one of them said: ''Let it be called the rose of tho good Silenus."
 The Jacqueminot is a trife more 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 grew from the roots again, and one day the gardener said: [
 "Monsieur, will you come into the garden? There is a miracle to be seen.'
 
 wrought. One splendid stem had grown up, and on it vas a bud half opened. It was not pale pink, as the parent had been, but a cardinal, velvety red-a royal rOgc, fuE of grace and beauty.
 The man who had never fiinched st the charge of the wild Arab when he rode side by side with Kiehor, and stood the shock or ten of the Hungarian and Polish lancers, pat his hands to his eyes and wepC 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.
 Shall l cut 1t down, my master?' said the old man softly after few minutes of silence.
 "No; it is the flower of God, and let it grow"
 It grew and fiourished, and this is the story told of the origin of the queen of roses, which sprsng from lovers blood
 AZ extremely beautiful rose bouquet is formed of American Beauties. One carried by New Yc=!; young woman was marvelOusly fragrant and lovely And well it might be, for the sum paid for 1t was siOO. Fancy banding 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.