350 MISSOURI STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Traveler's climbing- Pike's Peak dnring the summer months have 

 noticed the forget-me-not and daisy blooming along side by side at the 

 very edge of perpetual snow and ice. Here, under the dreary shelter 

 of an overhanging rock, they smile contentedly at the frozen mountain 

 top, never doubting that " God is in the shadow, God is everywhere.'^ 



Lilies without their graceful form and varying tints would be 

 highly esteemed for the number of times they are mentioned in the 

 Bible. Christ tells us to '" Consider the lilies." For this we would 

 gladly love and cherish them were they robbed of their majestic beauty. 



But the flowers which has ever and for all future years will con- 

 tinue to take the lead in decorating our homes* is the rose. By com- 

 mon consent it has been voted the lovliest amongst the children of 

 Flora. Its home is in the orient, whence it has traveled westward and 

 now opens its glowing petals to the sun in every quarter of the globe. 

 Its varieties of form and color are innumerable, some of which are ex- 

 ceedingly popular one season, others another, but all are admired. The 

 Gen. Jacqueminot, a rich crimson queen now stands at the head of 

 what is considered the most valuable type. 



In speaking of our tendency to give grand names to these floral 

 favorites, some one has said, 'Xow the favorite roses are all Dukes 

 and Duchesses, Counts and Countesses, Lords and Ladies, Generals 

 and Senators, till we wonder if there are any plebeans left." After all 

 is this not a beautiful way to perpetuate the names of our great and 

 good men and women ! 



The summer garden also produces verbenas, phlox, beds of fra- 

 grant mignonette, an endless variety of flowers grown from the seed. 



Royal hearted violets bloom profusely. Stately Dahlias are here 

 as much at home as in their native Mexico. 



Summer blooming shrubs are not wanting, honeysuckles are every- 

 where to be seen, and the modest flowers of the calycanthus and jas- 

 mine brighten up the quiet nooks. 



Of the gaudy but scarcely less admirred " common " flowers Henry 

 Ward Beecher says, " As for marigolds, poppies, hollyhocks and valor- 

 ous sunflowers, we shall never have a garden without them, both for 

 their own sake, and for the sake of old-fashioned folks, who used to 

 love them." 



The sighing fall winds blight the tender summer flowers, but 

 waken to new life the more hardy bloomers of the fall, among which 

 the aster and golden rod are prominent. The aster is a large family 

 embracing two hundred species, one hundred and fifty of ^v^hich are 

 native of America. 



