The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-06-20
CULTURE OF mMoRTELLEs.
The Flower Used Everywhere Grows
i'm Restricted Area.

i'm Restricted Area.
From the Pail Mall Gazette
In this, the first week of June com
mences the brief harvest OF those ",umor.
, tar flowers so intimately associated witt,
mortality. Naturally, they are a paying
crop to grow. But you cannot grow a
ten-acre field of them where you viii
Taey bloom not everywhere. these anna.
ranths. The worlds supply OF them
comes from little b.rg in the Var. hans
dozen miles out of Toulon, on the mair,
road to Marseilles.
There, through a straight and narrs,vv
pass, where, on one side, cleft and calc5n.
ed rocks are piled Enthusiastically and. on
tho other tumble away cascadewise to-
Ollioules P
Ollioules Is at first more strongly mg-
gestive to you of glue than was the shout
der OF mutton to Leechs swell, because
the glue they make at Ollioules Is indlnlte-
~ stronger than the most glutinoua ex-
tract that could be got out of sheep But
thls SuggesuVenes5 docs not hold Glue is
not the staple industry the place. TIp
there among the rocks. the Heichrysum
Orlentale has found the soil that suits H.
Just now all the little arid patches should
be primrose with pale buds. The sun
light fails there, but no dew. Dew As Ia
tai TO the constitution of the immortal
and damp means galloping CONSUMPTION.
Yet water IL must have, and watered Il Is
but only when conditions make for prompt
evaporation.
The fat, squat plants, like artlchokes.
but fiatter, send up long stalks by twos
and threes. Each stalk carries Ita TWEEN
~ or thirty buds The phychoIogical mo-
ment must be carefully watched for bv
the gatherer Too soon is as disastrous "a
too late; the flowers perish in the driving,
That process lasts a fortnight After the
drying comes the dyeine. In the dye vat
the immortal mostly acquires fts conven
tlonal ruddy yellow. Sometimes the fad-
dist has it dyed TO order. Always a cer-
tain amount of it must be of that hard
burnt black, in which to pick out the fond
farewell upon the wreath the pious Ie-
gend of the cross. Next comes the bunch
Ing into twenty-fives the Commercial INIT
Then the boxing by the hundred. and The
dispatch. per goods train, of SO many
hundredweights of affections future Of
ferings to the wholesale malrket
That was once Paris only: now IL Is Lon
don, too. We are a practical race I'M
mortals are good business AT any rate
good middleman's business. Last wear.
for Instance, prices ruled at Ollioules
about g per hundredweglAt. The middle
man, 1t Is estimated, always made double.
and sometimes treble. that figure Even
ab that, though, aUection should nor
have found its Offering ruinous. The arsb
cost of quite a proper wreath of imnor-
tally works out at only threepence-half-
penny.
The article is very largely made on the
spot Feminine fingers at OlliouIes are
passing def at this industry They need
be. Every bud as you see IL Is sewn into
its place upon the intermediate framework
Of plated straw which you do not see
The piety in black Is the neat interpola-
ton of the needle, and helps the making
of that $500 which Ollioues pockets In a
good year. Alasl Il is believed that such
years are to prove exceptional. Eome-
thing has happened to the immortal He
has begun to turn dead white. When lie
first did this his cultivator saw a fortune
In him. He saw himself that Is sole par
veyor of the white crown of a blameYess
life. But, then, his neighbor saw the same
thing. SO the white buds were nut to the
hazard of the dye, and they Just died
What was the matter? Had this I'll
thonus, too, got tired OF immortality. or
was he merely phylloxerous? That IL
what they say at Ollioules. and, as Quilt
dulles has no California to fall back on.
for fresh shoots they tell you the new
stock will get raised In Germany, and be
perpetuated In everlasting tin.