Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1902-07-12
BEAUTY IN VEGETABLES.
Carnelian of the Tomato and Royal Pur-
PIE of Red Cabbage.

| PIE of Red Cabbage.
| Amusement has bee: offered recent.
~ by real or pretended recommended.
! ton OF vegetables for millinery adorn-
! mcnt, attributed 10 vegetarian Soci-
! ETY.. Doubtless the prcsaic associa.
, tons OF these with cookery will bar
| them from such use. But il is none
| the less true that beauty OF form and
! color aDounds in the products OF the
/ been wholly neglected perhaps be-
cause. as in other things. it is so con-
| tin1ally presented TO the eye that it
Is overlooked by writer's. 1t has not
been wholly sighted bv the painters:
some of the most elaborate groups in
still life" pictures have been mada
| up of vegetables: and kitchen gardens,
too. have been the subject OF paint
ings, even 4 field of cabbages. espe.
cia!ly by Tcntonic artists. Ii is in the
street that the beauty of vegetables is
| especially forced On attention. OF
course. <he vegetables and fruits bring
their co!ors with them from the couu-
! try. But it is along the barren street
that the beauty is presented to us.
How many Of the passers-by hare eyes
10 see it and feast upon it daily? But
tic Italian. at least. who often PIE
sides over II, must enjoy polychrC-
matte delight for his wife chooses
blazing hues il personal adornmeat.
Bat the vegetables, of all artistic
tints and forms, The potato seems &c
re the oaiy exception; it is pig alike
in form. color and dirt. But if it were
We'll cleaned. its huff or red and its
argus eyes might count for something
TAKE the potato's relative. however
the tomato. When not crimson or vel.
low. it is pure and intense carnei!an;
and perhaps its warm tints gave it tht
old name. love apple" The rcd CAL
bage is royal purple; it is used by
chemists To get fine vegetable color
The egg plant is purple even to
blaclIeSs. profoundly rich in hue. The
blood beet is 50 deep purplish red
that it may even remind one of Keats
words, "Deep-dyed as with the b'Aoi
of kings" The carrot is pure salmon
rcd. and adds its bits Of glow to our
soup. And then there is the bright
rose red of the radish. the globUlar
variety Of which is sometimes cut into
loses to grace dinner table. The red
peppers are appropriately of fiery col
or The yellows are no less rick
Squasnes delight in this. as well as in
all fanciful forms. showing all golden
effects from pale lemon yellow to deep.
burning orange. Along with these are
the rudy pumpkin and the rich bun
OF the ripe muskn,alon. AS to the
green prdodcts. there are all hues and
shades. and in some these are marvel.
lousy variagateG, as in the blotchec
stripes of the citron melon and the
well-named snake Watermelon; also In
the Curiously netted stripes of the
large green squash. The whites have
their varieties. such as the apoque
white OF turnips. sometimes half col.
ored with red: the flesh-likc purity oil
the parsEip and the pearly luster oil
green corn and white onion.
The color is. Of course. enhanced by
form. in which. for variety. the
sGuashes lead the garden host. With
round. lobed. pyriform. or with swan
like shapes. But what variety OF
forms peculiar &c each of the Others
entioned. And what fullness OF
form. as in the rotund. compact cab.
tage. the obiate lobed tomato. and the
melon swelling out between its longi'
tudinal constructions. In other vege.
tables We have the charmingly crim'
pied and crinkled. leaves. and some
dissected into fringes and friils. as II
parsley ard the exquisite mats oil
"tkicory salad Utility alone does not
reign in the market garden: beauty
revels there in root and fruit. ana
smiles forth in the green-grocers dis
play. indeed. the growing foliage
only might be arranged in pretty dis.
play for landscape gardenirg-say
strined-leafed corn fer centre. the red
stemmcnd and bro2d-leafed rhubart
surrounding this. then the purple cab.
hage. next the finely fringel parsnip,
followed by the rei-topped beet. anc
fronted with border of bright yell
low-green lettuce heaGs.-Pcpular Sci
size News.