The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1901-03-20
Longfellow says:
They teach us by persuasive reasons
How akin they are to human things.


They teach us by persuasive reasons
HOW akin they are to human things.
"Emblems Of our coming resurrection,
hmD'ems OF the bright and better land"
! But Mrs. Hemans sings the mos
fascinating songs to flowers-when sh,
tires of o her subjects she takes res
on flowers:
Bring ilowers-fresh nawers for the bride
| to wear,
They were born to blush i'm her shinine
hair:
Bring howers-pale flowers DER the bier
A crown for the brow of the early dead,
Bring flowers to the shrine where we
m kneel In prayer,
they are natures offering--their place is
there.
BrisIHI deII. flowers to the oap'ives longely
They have tales of the joyous woods to
Shakespeare had great heart for
flowers, and he knew them like a
botanist. There Is not a common or
familiar one that lie does not bring to
Pheasant use in some of his plays. How
pathetically he laments the death of
lmogen:
With fairest flowers I'll sweeten thy sad
grave.
Thou shalt not lack the flowers that's like
thy face,
Pale ,primrose-nor the azur'd harebell
IKE my veins-nor the leaf of eglan-
breath"
There was long time ago a ballad
about two lovers for whom two flowers
were named, Margaret and Sweet Will
nam. we have margarets among the
MOWERS now, and sweet williams are
very common. What became of the
lovers is quantity told in the old-tlme
verses:
" Margaret was buried in the lower
And William In the higher;
Gut OF her breast there sprang rose.
And out of his a briar.
They grew till they grew to the church
And then they could grow no higher:
Amu no tnere they tied true lovers knot
Which made all people admire.
AS stern and solemn as was Moses.
the lawgiver, he was not unmindful of
the beauty of flowers, for when he
Planned the first SANCTUARY that was
set up i'll the wilderness he directed
that his cunning workmen should orna-
mcnt the golden candlesticks with
carvings Of flowers flowers.
When Solomon designed his maenlf-
cent temple the molten brass was orpa-
nentcd with representations of flowers.
and SO was the cedar carved with
figures of open flowers. The Bible
makes mention OF flowers, but not by
name, except the lily and the rose.
6 l am the rose of Sharon and the hly
OF the valley" Consider the lilies
how they grow. They toll not-neith-
er DO they spin; but Solomon in all his
glory was not arrayed like one of
these.n
l notice IN late New York paper
THAT the culture and sale of flowers has
largely increased in that city; that
forty years ago the safe amounted to
only sixty thousand dollars a year, and
that for the year just passed the sale
OF roses alone was nearly six millions,
Huu ehao ~ was uOI uncommon Tor Il
millionaire to spend ten thousand dol
lars for flowers tor single entertain
ment. This is good sign, and may
help to save Sodom-I mean Gotham
from destruction. l wish that all
our public schools would encourage
the pupils to study flowers. There is
little simple botany that even child
can understand, and it will tell them
why the kingly house of the Plantage-
nets took it's name from a fower-the
Scotch broom (planta genestha) with
which Henry IL had himself scourged
for a heinous crime. And why the
geranium means a cranes-bill and
eglantine a needle and nasturtum a
nose twister, etc. The origin of the
names of flowers is a funny book to
me.
These school boys and girls keep
me pretty busy answering their ques-
tions and doing their perplexing sums,
aud most of them inclose stamps in
their letters. l will conclude this let
ter by giving them sum:
A man sold a sow and pigs for eigh-
teen dollars. He received as much
for nine.tenths of pig as he did for
one. tenth of the SOW. How many pigs
did she have" BILL ARR.