The morning times., 1896-06-28
Lenox's Hillside Drive Will BE
Earlier This Year Than
UsuaI-Saratoga's Big
rtid. Fes-
tival.

You hear ST rangers abroad speaking OF tne
flower parades over here. Iheir own pat'ie
or flo vrrs ana iloral festivals seem to theii
trivial after the have seen Leuox Iio~er
parade or Saratoga carnival orflowers, or
r,rest of all, ii Californian iete. Their own
are small ever after.
Every wear sees these flower festivals
more numerous The summer Towns, one
after another, adopt them, copying eacii
%; her and with American originality get
ting up new features. There are SIX well
established ones now, with many horem the
air This climate has SO many hardy DIos-
SONS and such abundance or 1ioral Tegeta-
r,ou. that IL is. 10 wonder that the desire
to show off the flowers spreads III u .
warmer attitudes in Jersey, where AsDury
Park and Cane May lie. and south or Jersey,
there are large flowers and more varieties,
Int the cooler latitudcs in the North ana
middle West tiaye the satisfaction or Know
ing that tier blossoms keep longer WITH
ort fading aud so are really finer for a floral
parade.
The Lcnox flower fete, which claims
to be the first established one-thouSh
il is likely that Santa Barbara ante
dates u-takes place in September. rms
wear il may he earlier. The latter part
of August The autumn used to he TIE
time when society found itself at ,he
Bark shires. but latterly there has de-
yeioped "A fancy for running away 10
the hills for IL few weeks carrier. Ihe
same with Richfield. Autumn used 10
he ti,e time for it: now il is summer
And the Richiield flower parade, much
talked of now. will be held then.
The Lenox flower parade Is managed ny
the women, or rather III is nahaseu ny
th., men and the women do the parading.
As Mr.. Frederick W. Gebhard is reported
10 have said when asked TO place his
drag in the flower parade: Il will loaa
the drag and the horses can drag II, but
YOU can't drag me into the Flower pa
rade" And then he went on TO eluci-
date lie would decorate the conveyance
and assist the pretty g.r.s 10 their seats IN
IL. hut riower-decked carriages We're Tor
wo;nen. The men would have all they
could 10 trimming the vehicles and admir-
ing the proceSsiun. Theirs to be the spec
tators.
The Lrnox wheel flower parade numbers
half a hundred carriag OF all kinds A
beautiful woman leads it, All the great
society bellies in turn have taken tneif
places at the head OF this procession. one
wear a Turkish woman, enshrouded In Iiorai
veil. with male attendants on each side
of her leading the horses with floral
chains starts down the wide roadwhys
Auot,le; year il is Il vcritab!e flower girl
OF Nice throwing her blossoms. Ana ineh
comes the r, GUAR rank and rlle. the lovely
euuipagas trimmed from horse name 10
carriag. end with flowers, and u smiling
woman driving
The sara;ogi flower festival has taken
on a more practical form. II is partiIi-
mated in by school children, who are
allowed 80 bring up the honored rear after
the rrandly decked rarriaTe have passed.
The Children cultivate plots loaned by
the village corporation every year, OF
Obtained in some equally phianthOplc
way for floral purposes, and the society
girls of th. place have weekly floral sales
All to get funds for the flower fete. This
is manag gat; III an expensive and Luxurious
way, and is very instructive from the
nature of the floral floats that pass by.
There is talk this year of having flower
festival at Asbury Park, IN conjunction win
ocean Grove, the place adjoining. fiow-
ers are scarce at the seaSbore, some How
ers but others are abundant and heautliul-
The flower parade plan is To decorate the
wagons with sea weed and mosses, with
shells and sea things. Other wagons are 10
he trimmed with water lilies, and the poles
eutwincd with their stems. Nothing is
sho owier than these white flowers, nor more
plentiful where lakes abound as here
One of the persons discussing n possible
flower parade at Asbury suggested many
novel ways uf trimming with liiiies- One
way was to obtain that favorite or the
flower parade, an express wagon, and stand
poles erect nj the four corners Each pole
would have Il great bunch Of lilies tied
upon the top with lilies falling in Il traH
at the sidcs. The rear end of the express
wagon would be treated SIMILARLY and IN
side, upon little benches twlned with lilies
would sit pretty girls, posing as certain
weil-known floral characters or mythology
AMI legend and play
Newport is to have n flower wheeling
parade. one of these was planned for the
Hudson River last spring, but the ra-is came
and rnudciiefi the roads, and by the time the
rains had cleared society had Disappeared
Nevertheless the Misses Morton and Mrs.
Astnr. all most enthusiastic wheelwomen,
did wheel with flower-decked bicycles along
the new Astor Boulevard, and we'll along
the river. Several of these flower parades
took place last summer on bicycles, but they
were nothiig To what will he seen this year
II society can be mustered en- mass to ride
down Bellevue avenue, Newport, as they
raced down it last summer, the. sight will
he one To be cilrnnicled in floral parade his
tory. At present the more ardent of the
cyclists and flower lovers are agitating it.
II will not fall through. hut how large it
will he cannot be told untilAugust
i long The Pacific coast. where they can
dkt ItBSts VI isii-t> anu EltH tbsts
wild. the flower parades are things SO
beautiful that there is no realization of
them. away. As well look at picture of
angels in cloud heaven and try TO imag-
inc the real thing as 10 picture Santa
Barbara fete when you have never seen
one. You. to whom wild rose is q thing
painted upon placque, and who must fight
for yuur pansies, can only dream of a Gala
hedge az tail a man walks.
Many very artistic schemes have been
arranged for the production OF floral pa
rades this summer. II certainly does take
money the first year. II all had drags and
Goa chcs ii would he different. But after
the twent Y five volunteers the vehicles
give out. and then there must lie a sink
ing fund for hiring. trimming. manning with
assistants, etc. Tie assistants are the
snail boys. the pages the footmen and men
attendants who walk in the ranks OF the
parade, decked with blossoms and carry
Ing baskets OF them, but actually keeping
The scared horses in place. and ON the look
out for accidents from the ia Hing flowers.