The representative., 1895-10-09
ALL ABOUT FLOWERS

Compiled for the Globe-Democrat)
The flowers of some sensitive plants
are as sensitiveas the leaves.
The catalogues and floral dictionaries
give the names of $50 kinds of roses.
Every saint in the calendar is said to be
provided with floral emblem.
No plant will produce flowers unless
there is iron in the soil in which It grows.
Every ancient hero and god had flower
specially consecrated in his honor.
The Venus fly trap produces juice that
to nearly all insects is deadly poison.
The marigold goes to sleep with the sun
and remains quiescent until sunrise.
The saffron is valuable as dye. 1t
grows Wild in many parts of South Eu-
rope.
IN all mythology and folk lore white
flowers are supposed to spring from tears.
A Towering plant is said to abstract
from the soil 200 times its own weight Of
water.
The coral flowers, so called, are animals.
A coral reef resembles bed of anemones.
Some plants, as the peach tree, send
forth their flowers before the leaves have
started
Double flowers are generally the result
of cultivation and always an abnormal
growth
The rose among the Romans was the
emblem of secrecy, hence the phrase sub
rosa.
In all mountainous countries flowers
are found growing up to the line of per-
petual snow.
According to Ovid, the white anemone
sprang from the tears Venus shed for
Adonis.
The spice known as the common Glove
is the undeveloped bud of the caryophyl-
lus aromaticus.
The coloring principle of the madder af-
fects even the bones of animals that de-
your the plant
In Sumatra there grows flower of a
scent so vile as ito be comparable to moth
| ing but rotten carrion.
A great many flowers close at night.
| The marigold shuts up at sundown and
| remains closed until morning.
| The perfume of the nutmeg flower is
| said by some naturalists to have an in
A! to2icating effect on small birds.
| The ;vy-leaved lettuce opens it's leaves
and flowers at s o'clock in the morning
| and generally closes again by 4.
All plants are provided with flowers
| though sometimes these are so small and
| so hidden as to escape notice.
The orchids are true parasites, growing
| on other plants and drawing their sub
| stance from them and from the air.
Pure white geraniums, looking as
| though they were made of almost trans
parent wax, are grown by English flor
| lists.
! The stamens of the common barberry
will draw back when touched as though
unpleasantly affected by the sensation.
| The pollen of flowers IS in grains SO
small that many kinds are no more than
a thousandth of a millimeter in diameter
The hops used in the manufacture OF
| malt liquors are the flowers of the plant
botancally designated as humulus lupu-
! lus.
After the civil war, a Towering plant
| called the Japanese clover" sprang up
| known.
Most perfumes. even those most strik-
| ingly characteristic, are now obtained
synthet:cally in the laboratory of the
chemist.
Some flowers, like those of the yeast
seeds in few hours after blossoming.
The common lotus was the most sacred
| flower of the Egyptians. It's representa-
| ton is everywhere found on their mon.
uments.
The name of the century plant" Is
misleading. 1t blooms, not once in E
century, but once in 10 or IL years, ther
| dies.
The flowers of many trees, like the oak
elm, and hickory. are so inconspicuou!
that they are popularity supposed to be al
together lacking.
The bleeding-heart, according to ar
Eastern legend originated in the drops
of blood whch fell from Christ's side a
the crucifiixion.
In Palestine and Persia the "Sorrowfu
Mycanthus" droos in the day, being ap
parently about to die, but revives a:
evening comes on.
1t is said by ancient mythologists tha
not less than twenty lapnts were either
sacred to Hercules Or were named after
that hero.
The altar of roses is obtained by alb
stracting from rose leaves the volatile oi
they contain and condensing it in masse.
of cotton batting.
variety of the thistle grows in Rus
sia to such size that it shades the hut!