The evening times., 1895-08-15
Love Language
In FIowers
SWEET BLOSSOMS MAY TALK
OF TENDER PASSION.
Then, Too, Fashion Calls for
a Variety-Favorites of
Famous Women.

THE .fhirai fashions for the summer are
now fully Set" wrote very fashi"nnnie
I florist few days ago. land IL YOU Will
run back to the city and TO my Conservatory
for an hour 1 can promise you treat
This was an opportunity not to be miss
ed, for the fiorist-dare l tell it's the
| one who blankets Mrs. Waldorf Asfors
grave anew each day with lilies Of the
valley, and is the designer of the ftower
arch that leads to Mrs. Whitney's mau-
soleum each recurring February, as well
as the flower authority who tells an the
debutantes what flower they should caoose
as their "favorte,' and the matrons What
| will best suit their deeper charms. So mack
| totown and To the shopf went.
Upon the table lay scattering of ff'ral
books, and heaped up at the end of the table
were tuberoses, 4 great pile of tbstn,
reaching to the ceiling-and nothing else
what does this mcan?' asked. Have
tuberoses come back in style again. and
do they now tell life and love as they
once told death and disregard?'
"Oh, no." said he, carelcssly. pushing
| them aside to make room for the frame
work of great bouquet. Nothing Of
the sort. But the floral alphabet and the
! language of flowers are in fashion again
1t is rampant this season, and it must spell
| its way to love Just as it used to. Ah,
| you smile! Sect
And throwing open great cold safe,
he showed me piles of the snowy flowers,
greater than those that lay upon the table.
A little further back upon other shelves
lay heaps of orchids, and above them
were tiers of maricolds, and beyond them
a stack of yellow roses, fully a million
frem the looks, while deep in u very cold
looking vault were lilies, liliesi Further
| Oh \ cosIkf hot see.
These" he said, ARE loves alphabet.
/ To be less erignatical, have been or
dered te Sc - bouquet daily to a certain
Young woman, whose engagement has
| lust been announced, to a whehe eoAti-
Bent of expectant people. Her fianee. try
ing to outdo himself in expressions of bis
good fortune, has ordered ME to suFpfy
her daily with great bouquet. The
flo wers are 10 spell: Ifo my love- There
are seven letters, as you see, in the sen
tence-one letter for each day in the week
ard daring the week she will spell oet the
sentences herself.
SPELLING LOVE.
To-day we send a great bouquet OF
tubeFoses-you notice they begin with T.
Tomorrow We despatch one of orchids-be
Cunning with O. Next day we have mari
Colds, for II, and the day afteI We send
yellow roses, trusting her to find the Y.
The word love We spell with Hlies, orange
blossoms, yiolets and eglantine-L-0-Y-E.
;p;t, alr .
shall have no little trouble to keep track
of her. But that is part of a florists duty
If he is going to retain fashionable trade.
But / promised to tell you about the
fashions in flo owers. 1t Is only very poor or
very regardless persons who snatch bou-
quet now from the conservatory and put it
on without regard to its becomingness.
They consult their florist or their milliner
or employ personal taste.
ITO tell the absolute truth, fashions in
flowers are set by fashion leaders them
selves, as fashions in gowns are set. For
years Mrs. John w. Mackay has set the
flower fashions for LONDON She is mid
dle-aged woman, with . young woman
hook. There is primBess, a Eeatness, q
prettiness and q Fefiaedness about her that
makes her an excellent model for other
in the sprieE VIII, q flower upon her bodice
or VI hsx hand the word is telegraphed over
>herc.an We florists know it within an hour
. THE fashion now for wearing the rose
Is for pinning ii upon the white lace collar
ette, which 10 a feature of summer wear.
Mrs Maekay wears this collarette upon .
deep cramsoR dress and pins the deepest
crimson rose upon each side of the collar |
ette- She places a few green leaves and . |
bud with the rose and wears it very stffly |
and primly \
''The fashiouabfe color of dress thia
year is white. More white, is worn than |
ever before, aud with it goes ecru. /
II tho dress Is a simple lawn one, there |
are ecru ribbons; il a fine nauA one,
there is ecru embroidery, and IL simple
summer silk. there are ecru figures upon
the background. This, you see, calls I
for blue a0weni We have them IN the
forget-me-aots, which are shy hloomeB,
and In the blue pinks, which are blued
by. q process. The girl win the tan /
hat and blus pinks or the white gown /
with the blue piuin In, the vszS is the
one who isqueeDfng 1t thissummer
4 SLEEVE" BoUQUET.
FLORISTS, have, been pining 10 discover
how to combine flower effsetss with the1
ipameugo, s1psvags Of fashion. n ts dis L