The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1902-04-14

Germany and the emperor and his family
had to fly from Berlin and conceal
themselves. he was awfuly distressed
and they liked to have persisted. But
his old mother made earlands of little
wild flower. known as the corn flower
or kaiserblume, and put them on him
and cheered him up. and when Bona
parte was vanquished the emperor ad1pt-
ed 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 VIII
have one when this Federation of Won
ems Clubs takes hold of the amtter. and
| hope it will be the golden rod 1t
grows from Maine to- Mexico and bends
its graceful head in field and forest
The reason / got to Eliminating about
flowers was because our good ladies gave
an entertainment the other night which
was quite original and peculiar. IL was
called the enchanted garden. There were
twelve pretty flowers painted ON a long
curtain and i'm front of them was an
old gardener teaching a pretty little girl
her first lesson i'm flowers. He told her
their origin and how they got their names
and whenever he mentioned one of the
flowers that was on the curtain and point
ed to it. that flower disappeared as If
bv enchantment and in its place there
appeared the face OF a pretty girl or
woman. VINO sang a song that fitted the
flower-such songs as only Pansy BIOS
som" The Last Rose of summer Fohu
Lilies" a Bunch of Daisies etc. AT
intervals between the songs, the old
gardener told his pupil how ClyIl leii
i'm love with Apollo, the god OF the sun
and she gazed upon him SO contlnuahy
that he got tired of it and turned ner
into a heliotrope. for this Greek WORD
means turned by the sun. And now
Apallo's c1p-bcarer was a very handsome
hoy and Apollo loved him SO mucn lhat
another boy killed him through envy ana
his dead body was changed Into q hya-
cinth.
The Greek spelling is Yacinthus and
Apollo stamped the Greek letter on
every petal, and it is there yet Ana
how a very vain and handsome youth
spent all of his time looking at MN
self in a fountain OF clear water ana
one day he fell in and was drowned anu
Apollo changed his body into 4 narcis-
sus. And how the carnation was Away
pink or flesh color for the Greek word
coIors. And how dandeIon means a lions
tooth from the shape of its leaves, ana
the tulip means a tuban and the geranl-
UNI means a CRANES bill from the shape
OF its seed pods, ana the nasturuum means
a nose twister, for WheV you smell It or
taste the seed the pungent odor and taste
make you draw up your face and curl up
your nose And the old man told about
many others. and it seems that We not
only got the names of the days and the
months and the stars from ancient my
thology, but we have even kept tine names
OF their flowers.
If flowers were as scarce as diamonds
and pearls they would bring a much high
er price for they are really more beau
tiful. 4 kind Providence made the best
and most beautiful things the most album
dant so that the poor might have them
as wen as the rich. 1t does not take
money to buy sunshine nor shower nor
the green grass nor the songs of birds
nor the daisies and lilies that adorn the
fields and meadows.
The great poets books are fun OF beau
tiful thoughts about flowers. Shakes