The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-15

others. Arrange your contributions carefully. and take the trouble to nisrk | the plants with their correct names. One of the sweetest expericnces of
 the meeting was to sec the joyful way lin which Miss Abarcrombie received her share Of the iistribution--.for the chill dren 7 Her sole idea Is the bs4utin- ca ton of BeiIinger School and placing the refining influence of flowers a'ound the children.
 Human deeds
 Are not like other seeds;
 They frnItage- bear t | Which wS are not aware
 Till harvest time
 m some far-distant cliIre,
 Tell of Good, or lll---
 And thus The measures hll;
 l Montgomery. Ala, october S0 1908. | Mrs W A Gayle. President Flower
 Cirowers' Association:
 Kind Flower Frlend--Eax CT since that | memorable afternoon in June my | thoughts have been wandering into the | realms of Flowerdom, and rave felt
 as though I must put few or my stray thoughts onto paper. shail never quite forget the kindly attention I shown me at the meeting of the Flow | CT Growers held at the home Of Mrs | Clark at Highland. Park. Te mlngie with such a body of splendid women. | who find time to love and cultivate the many varieties of flowers tGod's smiles I of love and sunsnine) Is q gracious | opportunity. Few of my sex consider | it worth while to take the time from | their business to attend these meet | ings on the contrary 1t could not but | benefit them, and help them to see more of the beauties that surround | them in their daily life and strife and besides it is one of the grandest ways l of relaxation that know Of. some one | has said T have never met fooi, hypoehondriac. nor an evil person Who | loved garden" all three of them may l love the rare perfume of rose, the, glorious colorinE of an orchid. but | believe 1t takes a. gentle, refined ana ! determined nature to be a. successruI flower grower. I have also heard 1t. | said that they who have an inporn | love for floral culture can be Judged as having sane mind in a healthy body. | There Is a subtle lesson In the old csreaIs fahle of Antaeus; whom could | not oyerpower Hercules. so long as ne | could regain his. strength by touchlng l his mother. "Earth." After chill win | Icr has cast her veil of cold grey clouds aside. disrobing of her somore | mantle bursting into the glow o1 | youth. spring enters with her dainty, | gauzy gowns of green. white ana satin | | in the soil overconles. one ana seees ] to give new life asssoon as this desire | ia granted. Who does not love the | fair Narcissus la its stately beautyf I In Greek Mythology we find Narclssus a beautiful youth. a son of Cephissns | and the nymph Iliriope. metamo morpnosed Into a flower. For his insensibilfty to | love he was caused by Nemesis to fall ! in love with his own image reflected | tn the water Una ble to- grasp this 1 shadow. he pined away and became the
 flower which bears hts name, and was l found growing beside a mirror-lik 1 spring, still gazing at his reflection in 1 the water It might be interesting to 1 know how a few. other flowers re- eeived their. names; Many or them 1 were named after persons. for instance, Fuchsias were so called because they | were discovered by LeonRrd Fuchs. DahiIas were named for Andre Dahl | who brought them from Peru The l Camelia Japonica. was So called from | missionary named Kamel, who brought
 some fine specimens, of the flower to
 France from Japan. He called It Rose
 of Japan, but his friends changed 1t to 1 Cameiia. The Magnolia was named In
 honor of Prof. Magnol de Montpelier
 who first brought. the beautiful tree
 to France from America, and Asia. Am | emones (windnowers)- were SC called
 because they trembled with the wind: There are about seventy species of thls flower indigenous in the cool climates l of the northern hemispheres; of these We ind sixEeen varieties in North America. The Latin word to wash is lavare and Lavender received its name because the Romans put the, flower in to the water when they washed to per-
 fume their hands We find in Greek mythology many beautiful myths con- | cerning the origin of flowers such as | the Rose the Sunhower and others. Not long ago 1t was the pleasure of the | writer to pass the home of Mrs. J. |. Mckinney and he beheld most beau | riful canopy of the Heavenly Blue
 Meonnower. This particular variety is
 well named for 1t Is truly an etherial I blue and one does not wonder that
 "Katydid" could write such musical
 poesy it is truly an. inspiration to one
 who is poetically inclined as 1t lasts
 all or the forenoon keeping one in the
 happy. peetical mood.
 Very sincerely.
 John Proctor Mills.