Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1892-05-11

'The sweetness OF the viOlets' deep blue eyes
Kissed by the breath Of heaven, seems colOred
by the skies Byron.
Among our most beautiful wild aud
garden flowers are those belonging to
the order Nioiaec;e. Poets have sung
their praises and iuterW oven them in
their verse in all ages. Perhaps the
most popular of all our flowers is viola
tr color, and it has been called many
fantastic names from the pretty con-
celts devised about it. Besides pansy
from the French pc see, thought,) J
we have "hedrts- ease" s'none-so-pretty''
or Nancy pretty" ''Johnny-jump-
up" ''pink-of-my my-John," 'jump-up-
and-kiss-me, 'calI-me-to-you," "three-
faces-under hood" and "herb-Tt in
Ity." Shakespeare calls it, Glove in
idleness," in the Midsummer Nights
Dream."
PiOia OdOrGta, sweet vIolets, far ex-
ceeds all others of its class in rich per-
fume and deserves to be more general
ly cultivated.
We have in this country about
twenty different species of violacese.
some of which are described by Mr..
BrothertOn in his article this week.
and all worthy of a place In any
garden.
No flower has been more scelebrated
IN song than this modest violet:
Shakespeare, Keats, Tenyson, Byron,
all sing its praises and in our own
country our best poets have given it
place in their verses. 1t is the one of
our native vlOlets to which Bryant
refers in those beautiful lines begin
ming;
When echen birds begin to swell,
And woods tne blue birds waTble know
The yellow YUlets modest bell
Peeps from the last years leaves below"
and Holmes, another OF our poets,
noted for his genial love of Nature,
writes:
THE gardens brightest glories
By summer suns are aursed,
But q. the sweet. sweet viOletS,
The flowers that opened first"
There are but two other genera of
plants IN North America belonging to
this order, Solea, or green violet, an
erect leafy plant with inconspicuous
gr senish flowers found in the Eastern
States, and Ionidium, little-known
genus belonging to the far West.
CHOICE PANsIEs.
A writer in The MayfOmer gives the
following list of fine varieties of pansies
for bedding purposes:
Black knight is a dark, real beauty;
its fine glossy black petals, soft and
velvety in appearance, and contrasting
finely with the large pure white satinv
blossoms of Snow Queen and Snow
Fairy. The Yellow Bird is beautiful
new sort of the Giant Trimardeau type,
a large pure yellow variety, of vigor-
ous compact growth. Little Red Rid
ing Hood is a charming novelty, of
br liant bright red color; this should
certainly be included in our collec-
ton. There are many exquisitely
beautiful combinations of color; what
artist can reproduce "true to nature"
the delicate shadings and tracery of the
striped and mottled beauties? In the
magnificent strain of Gloriosa Per-
fecta, we have the blossoms of s'red-
dish steel blue" margined with red
and white, a lovely combination. The
lower petals of Lord Beaconfeld are of
a rich deep violet hue shading to white
in the upper petals. Thunder Cloud
has large coal black flower bordered
with red and white, exceedingly showy.
The rich deep blue Of Emperor Will
liam makes that variety very desirable.
For massing in our flower beds no
plant is more desirable than the Pansy
the white and light varieties, enriched
by the darker colors, present a lovely
combination of shades and markings,
exceedingly beautiful.