OLD-FASHIONED FLOWERS 



or Coelestinum, now so plentiful and so 

 popular, is not two centuries old. The 

 Helichrysum, or Everlasting, is even 

 younger. The Zinnia is exaftly a cen- 

 tenarian. The Spanish Bean, a native 

 of South America, and the Sweet Pea, 

 an immigrant from Sicily, number a 

 little over two hundred years. The An- 

 themis, whom we find in the least- 

 known villages, has been cultivated 

 only since 1699. The charming blue 

 Lobelia of our borders came to us from 

 the Cape of Good Hope at the time of 

 the French Revolution. The China As- 

 ter, or Reine Marguerite, is dated 1731. 

 The Annual or Drummond's Phlox, 

 now so common, was sent over from 

 Texas in 1835. The large-flowered 



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