The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1895-03-02

geranium scatters it's pretty BIOS
SONS. On the inner edge of the as
phaltum walk wide border of moss
pink edges the front yard, and an
edging of the evergreen japanese
Euonymus, dwarf shrub few inches
high, bounds the lawn, behind which
is the red cottage-El Nido, the Nest
ON whose walls are several climbing
roses, begonias, bougainvill@as and
other vines, running to the caves, sew
eral of them handsome with bios
SIMS. Around the lawn, and on each
side, and behind the house are fam
palms, magnolias, umbrella tree,
dracena palm, Monterey grapes and
roses galore, many of them in bloom,
and some of them of so tender "a dis
position that they are never seen in
the pitiless East, except in the con-
servatories of the rich, or in the glass
ediices of the florist. Among these
l can watch from dav to day La
France, Coquette de Lyon, ,Safrano,
La Refine, MarieHenriette, La Marque,
Gold of Ophir (not yet in bloom),
Marie Van Houtte, Paul Neyron,
Marechal Mel, American Beauty,
Bride, Louis Philippe, Cloth of Gold,
Moss, Cherokee, La Quentin, Perle
dor, Duchesse de Brabant, James
Sprunt, Waltham Queen, Duchesse
Aumele, William Allen Richardson,
Jacqueminot, Black Prince, Gloire
de Rosamono, Hermosa, Papa Con-
tier, Nine. Blanc, Vale de Chamounix,
Princess Rohass, Souvenir de eWootton,
Gloire de Dion and others l cannot
stay to name. Most of these are per-
petual bloomers, and some of them
are never without flower from jan
uary to December 81.
Then there are aLaurestinas hedge
full of blossoms, sweet peas, six feet
high, soon to flower; pansies, blue
and white English violets, nastur-
tiums, fifteen feet high and growing
taller, long border of verbenas of
all colors, callas, cassia, jessamine,
lemon and orange blossoms, not to
mention the golden fruit of the latter,
heliotrope, sweet alyssum, pelargo-
NUNS and other geraniums, a lemon
verbena more than ten feet high, and
other flowers Iscannot at this moment
recall.
The fruit orchard in the rear will
soon blossom, peach Tin March) nee
tarine and apricot, and then grape,
apple, pear, ounce, English walnut,
cherry, prune, blackberry, raspberry,
and later on guava, olive and Japan
ese persimmon. The fig has no ex-
ternal blossom. Now most of the
fruit trees are leafess, but they will
all come on in orderly procession, so
that there will be fruit ripening, every
month in the calendar. The straw
berry patch is scarcely ever without
blossoms and fruit.
OF course the roses fascinate be-
yond all else. 1t does seem as though
after centuries of wandering and ex-
pertinent, the roses have at last found
their Eden, and are proving what the
word rose means, and what roses can
do where all the conditions are per-
feet. The exquisite beauty and frag-
rance, the shape and color of the in
dividual, the wonderful variety and
the incredible ,profusion, sometimes
thousands on single plant-are
wonderful.
Had not the word Florida been al
ready appropriated, it should belong
here, for this beyond all others is the
land of flowers; and had not the eu-
phonious word Pasadena been al
ready pplied,-Florence,F Flower City
might well designate thislovely city
of homes, for Pasadena is the pretti-
est dimple in the fair cheek of Cali
fornia.
But l just sat down for moment
to indicate to my shivering friends in
the frozen North the contrast between
here and there. | goose-pimple all
over as l think of them, even as | say
good morrow to my nodding roses.
cannot realize that it is February as
l see the beauty of form and tint
around me, and inhale the fragrance
that ascends from the floral vases, and
listen to the bird d-notes that charm the
ear, and absorb the general air that
stimulates into divine inebriety the
delighted senses, SO that it seems
Joy Just to live even in the February
dawn that only becomes full para
disc in May. Last night,
'The moon came up and woke the dew
And hung a star On every leaf"
This morning,
1.-THE sun took on the rainbOw's hue,
And kissed away the meadows grief!"
Nowhere else have l ever been