The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-02-21
A BLACK FLOWER
. FLORISTS DREAM!
Georgia Boy Discovers Secret
for Which Many Thousands
Have Searched.
BLACK TULIP A MY TIL
Roses Of Vatican Said to Grow
in Soil Once Watercd by
Human Blood.
81 Ia MAnau1sE DE ToNTENoy.

ny LA MARauIsE DE F0NIENof.
-OR thousands of years horticul,tuir.
II lists in all parts Of the world, IN
the Occident, but more espeGin' ~
in the Orient, nave beei e,, ,,,, ",
oring to produce. by one means
another. perfectly black flower. ma,
lture has for reasons OF her own baiiin,n
all their efforts. Their iapors, NY
researches. their science, went ~.
nothing. Black has hitherto been liie
has set her face, and with which she
would have nothing whatsoever 10 40
lIf. therefore, 1t Is really true that DEN
| mis- 'Tapley. the crippled kcyring maker
| from Savannah. Ca. VINO Is nov III
Washington for the purpose of Sc.
! curing n patent for process WHEREBY
/ black roses may be grown. has really
succeeded In producing black roses. as
] he alleges, he will enjoy from hG IIa re
beside that other winner OF tho hith-
| crto unattainabe, namely, Commanuer
pcary. who reached the North Polo:
| For, despite the Fascinating novel OF
IAlcXandrc Dumas, entitled THE Black
| tulip" there Is no reason 10 belleVe
that the hero of his story. Cornelius
| van Bacrle. ever really produced black
| tulips at Harlem, or that he won the
| prize of 100000 norins. offered by WI.
| liam Of orange and the states General
Of Holland as an incentiye TO TINS
| victory over nature. True. Dumas ilid
| some basis for his story, for the old
| Dutch writers on gardeners ana garden
| ing, dilatc enthusiastically upon inc
original Harlem black tulip, for which
MS much as $4,000 n bulb is claimcd
| to have been paid. But careful re-
searches and Investigation fail to re-
| veal any proof that black tulip was
ever produced. or that 1t ever existed,
and the nearest approach that mas ever
/, been reached to producing black tn
| lips. is tho so-called Sultan tulip. which
was first shown In 1896. and which Is
| of SO solnbrc purple as to be almost
black.
ers to endeavor to emulate the myth
cal hero of Alexandra Dumas. Indeed
they would do We'll especially If they
are in the least bit superstitious, e
avoid the culture of tulips, for. accord
/ ing to the researches of the Society
OF Psychologists OF France, which hn'
its headquarters al Paris, the tulip is
! the one flower of all others which eX-
ercises a malignant influence upor
those who cultivate its bulbs, and TIL,
i society furnishes Il list or many hun
drcds of cases whore tulip grower.
have either met with violent deaths
or else been overt AIKEN by disaster.
! With regard TO black roses, l bciiev,
that the most sombre-hued roses II
existence arc to be found In certain
portions of the gardens of the Vatican
j They are of so dark red as TO b.
4 almost black, and while there is n
truth in the ridiculous story to tn
effect that their color is produced b
watering them with human blood. We
ut Is fact that the particular part o
! the gardens where they grow was Il
medieval ages the scene of a sanguin
airy ARRAY, and OF much bloodshet
From time immemorial superstitio
has existed to the effect that roses
and flowers generally. attain the great
est beauty in soil fertilized by bloot
especially by human blood. Ever
racing man and racing woman VIII
has visited Newmarket. in ENGLAND
! knows of the so-called Bloody Flowe
of Newmarket" which Is to be foun
nowhere else than in the old moaI
now filled up and in which. accordin
TO tradition. q very large quantity O
human remains are inferred. Thes
!, flowers bloom In June and July, an
certainly, by the dark. bloodlike hu
of their blossoms, suggest the nam
that has been given to them. Ac
cording to legend and ancient mythol
ogy. yiolets are indebted for thei
origin to the blood of the self sIai
Atys, though according TO another leg
end they We're originally all white an
owe their violet hue to the fact that
raising their eyes upward on an occa
sion when they ought to have kep
them discreetly lowered, they have re
NAMED blusliing ever since