The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-03-10
SPRING FASHIONS IN FLOWERS
o2d-Ifne blossoms and Wonderful Yu-
ventions In yioiess and Pansies.

Nehtfons IN Nfoiets and PanSic~.
New York san.
pespise the hlszzarsss ard the dressings.
nortsss and seeSsmen are as busy as bees
sooh VIII be making their arrangements
ief the spring planting Of flower gardens
ana setting the fashion for summer
blooms. The florists shops ssacw their
usual array Of dollhouse fsowers-nsIa
Aiacs. spicy jonluiis and over-sweet Cane
Jasfnsnes: and there viii be no break
between these products of an artificial
atmosphere ana rhe flowers OF the
sprihg. out ia the nurseries and seed
gardens OF Long Island around Floral
park. down In the warm aiiuvial beds
outside Philadelphia. up On the lake shore
ny Rochester and In the loan fields of
rev Jersey there Is just as much con-
ndent hustle and planning for a great
change as though such thing as the
frost OF IS had never been heard of.
AS TO the fashion In flowers. there seems
no doubt that the public taste has gone
back TO understanding, simule flowers.
Last summer the sweet pea was in pro-
fusion mere. but the indications ara that
tnis summer every garden viii be half
niied with great clumps of It's tough
green stalks. butterhy-iooking blossoms
ana oid-fashioned gentle perfume, which
hke that OF the mignouette seems to an
a circumference Of odor without any CEN
N.
sweet fern. the bold climbing clemasis.
the Glove and India pinks--these, and the
roses, OF course, are TO be the fayorite
flowers that will make the modern gar
den look and smell like an old-fashtoned
posy yard.
In flowers that are more remarkable
Tor their vivid color than for their per-
rune. the same leaning toward old Ia
vorites will be seen. The marsgold double
ana single and ranging Tn color from as
pale as ghost to as yellow as a guinea:
asters OF every conceivable color: bright
faced lohslias for edgings: the iarkspur
OF Shakespeare's days. nasturtfums once
grown for nlakeshift eapers. now ad-
mired for the softness and gloss of their
velvet petals and the hrilliancy of their
color In every shade of yellow. red. brown
ana even black these are a few of the
coming seasons more brilliant but less
odorous favoritss.
Even the poppy has been taken in from
the fields and worked at until from its
flaming scarlet cup there have been
drawn scores OF varieties. There are
poppies four-petalied and white, many
petalled and black, small and open as a
buttercup and big and round as a dahiia
Nor VIII the garden be complete without
Its line OF peonies by the southern WALL
the piney OF the old homestead but a
p'ney so glorifled and variegated that one
face In Its new finery.
The tendency to variegate is indeed
seen IN every flower. The florist and the
scotsman concede that the tendency to
make fashionable again that which Il
Was thought had gone out of fashion is
as strong in the matter of flowers as II
is in furniture and printing and fire.
places. but they 0e led by a desire for
something new into ceaseless experiments
OF hybridlzlug and crossinv ana athar
perversions Of nature. For instance, last
season the violet and the pansy ran about
neck and neck In public favor as they
VIII again this season. with the violet
having the advantage of being first In
the field. Indeed these two flowers ara
to be the spring fayorites. just as the
sweet pea is TO be made the fashion later
In the season But they are to be such
violets and pansies as one never dreamed
Of. There Is TO be California violet, two
flowers on stem. stalks n foot long.
blossoms bigger than a dollar. and per-
fume as strong as dozen Russian and
Marie Louise tribes rolled into one: and
pansies of a fine and very rare red brick
color, pale blue pansies, deep black pam
sizes, and pansies with variegated foliage.
Lastly. there viii be the pansy-violet or
the violet-pansy. hybrid made by cross
Ing the pansy with the sweet Alpine vio-
let. The result Is a flower that looks like
a pansy and smells like violet. After
all, though, this Is not so strange rs IL
at FIRST reads. for the pansy Is only a
violet in which the brillianey of the
flower has been developed at the expense
OF the perfume. The line OF demarca-
ton can be seen by looking at tho wild
yellow pansy which bears the beginnings
of both flowers, and the ingenious florist
has only succeeded In bringing the two
wandering children together again.