The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1902-05-23


the war OF the roses. But after awhile
the son Of one married the daughter
OF the other and stopped the war and
the two roses we're united into one
and called the Tudor rose.
In the eleventh century the Danes
made war upon Scotland, and one dark
night planned an attack upon a for
tress that was the key to the whole
country. They took OF their shoes
and breeches so as to swim across a
moat that surrounded the fortress,
thinking that the moat was deep and
full OF water. But the Scotch had near.
ly filled the moat with thistle, and It
stuck the Danes so terribly that they
yelled in agony and got out quickly
and the Scotch took them unawares
and killed nearly all of them before
they could put on their shoes and
breeches. The thistle saved Scotland.
and so they took It for their national
flower
Away back in the centuries when
good st. Patrick went to Ireland as q
missionary. he preached to them about
the Trinity and how there were three
persons In one God, and the people
laughed at him and said 1t was i'm
possible and they didn't believe it.
So the saint picked up a shamrock
stem with It's three leaves growing
out Of it and exclaimed: why not?
Why not? If this little plant can make
three from one, why can't God do it?
So he convinced and converted all
that people, and they took the clover
or shamrock plant for the national
flower.
In the sixth century the Normans
invaded Wales, and just before great
battle one dark, cloudy evening the
Welsh went through a field where the
leeks or wild onions were in bloom,
and every man plucked one and stuck
1t in his hat so as to distinguish their
soldiers from the enemy, and by this
means they whipped the fight and
saved their country. After that they
took the leek for their national flower
When Napoleon Bonaparte overran
Germany and the emperor and his
family had to fly from Berlin and con-
ceal themselves, he was awfully dis
tressed and they liked to have perish
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of little wild flower, known as the
corn flower or kaiserblume, and put
>Shem on him and cheered him up, and
when Bonaparte was vanquished the
emperor adopted that little wild flower
as the national emblem.
When Louis VII started out on the
Crusades he chose the iris as his
badge, and when he returned with his
army it was adopted as the nations
flower. This is enough of national
flowers. wish we had one for our
nation, and we will have one when
the Federation of Woman's Clubs
takes hold Of the matter and hope
1t will be the golden rod. It grows
from Maine to Mexico and bends its
graceful head in field and forest.
The reason l got to Illuminating
about flowers was because our good
ladies gave an entertainment the 9th
er night which was quite original and
peculiar. 1t was called the enchanted
garden. There were twelve pretty
flowers painted on long curtain and
in front Of them was an old gardener
teaching a pretty little girl her first
lesson in flowers. He told her the or
origin and how they got their names
and whenever he mentioned one Of the
flowers that was on the curtain and
pointed to it that flower disappeared
as if by enchantment and in its place
there appeared the face of a pretty
girl or woman, who sang song chat
fitted the fower-such songs as only
a Fansy Blossom" "The Last Rose Of
Summer" POND Lilies" "A Bunch
of Daisies" etc. At intervals between
the songs the old gardener told his
pupil how Clyta fell in love with APP
polio, the god of the sun, and she
gazed upon him so continually that
he got tired of it and turned her into
henotrope, for this Greek word
means turned by the sun. And how
Appolo's cup-bearer was a very hand
some boy and Appolo loved him so
much that another boy killed him
through envy and his dead body was
turned into hyacinth.
The Greek spelling Is Yacinthus and
Appolo stamped the Greek letter Y on
every petal and it is there yet. And
how very vain and handsome youth
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