Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1915-04-22
Ladies Are Vying With Each
Other In Raising Pretty
Flowers.
MUCH CIVIC PRIDE SHOWN.
Many Lots Are Under The
Care Of Landscape
Gardeners.


the spirit of civic improvement and
are INDUCING their taste for flowers
to beautify the back yards. Many
of the ladies are displaying enthusi-
asm in the culture of plants, shrubs
and flowers. Nurserymen have
filled many large orders and some
yards have been plated and planted
for the first time.
Some of them make speciality of
the old-fashioned flowers, such as
lilacs, snowballs, calacanthus. altheas
and other shrubs and such hardy
plants as peonies, phlox, chrysan-
themums and blue bells.
Many yards were gorgeous with
buttercups and crocuses a month
ago and just now the hyacinths and
tulips are holding sway.
Rose gardens are plentiful. Last
winter was hard one on roses and
many Of them were killed to the
ground and are just putting up
fresh shoots.
Some of the very early shrubs
have already doomed or are now
blooming. One of the prettiest
shrubs in the city is a Japanese
Magnolia in the yard of Mr.. Will
Kimmons. 1t has already shed its
blossoms, which appeared in great
profusion, covering the entire tree,
about the first of April.
Mrs. Kimmons is one of the ladies
on South Main street who is devot-
| ing much attention to her flowers.
Mrs. R. E. Cooper has beautified
the back yard of her new home on
South Main, which will in time be
equal in beauty to any in the city.
Mrs. John l.. Harvey, whose home
has been remodeled, is also paying
much attention to planting shrubs
and flower beds.
One of the most attractive side
yards. is one jointly owned by Mrs.
M. G. Rust and Mrs. H. M. Frankel,
where many beautiful roses bloom
every year.
Miss Johnnie Beard. on Fourteenth
street, has long had one of the hand
soonest fiewer gardens in that part
of the city.
In every part of the city beautiful
flowers will be seen from now on.
There is scarcely home in the city
where some flowers are not found.
Even the colored people raise them,
many of the humblest cabins being
in veritable rose gardens.
A great deal of this interest has
been aroused by the local florists, T.
L. Metcalfe and w. F. Snyder. Mr..
Metcalfe has one of the largest for
al plants in Kentucky, with branch
greenhouses in several neighboring
cities. Just now he is one of the
busiest men in town, as the season
for selling pottedl plants is at its
height.
The ladies generally are preparing
for a great profusion of summer and
autumn flowers.
Among these nasturtiums asters,
gladioli, tube roses. clematis, sweet
peas and scabiosas are universally
popular. Later will come the dah-
las, cosmos and chrysanthemums
and such old favorites as zinnias,
marigolds and salvias that bloom I'M
til frost.
Miss Fannie Rogers, the Main
street milliLer, has had some flower
beds made in the yard in the rear
of her store.
Miss Virginia Lipscomb, the libra
rion of the Public Library. has made
the little yard back of the library a
thing Of beauty.
Out at the State Hospital the
flower gardens have always been
given especial care and they contain
many very beautiful flowers.
The love of flowers is everywhere
shown on the lots at Riverside Gene
terry. The Superintendent. Mr.. r.
ID. Reeder, has much taste in such
work and the flower beds on the
many lots are beautifully cared fo,.