OLD-FASHIONED FLOWERS 



Lavatera, who looks so confirmed a 

 native, so simple a rustic,has blossomed 

 in our gardens only since two centuries 

 and a half; and the Petunia since some 

 twenty lustres. The Mignonette, the 

 Heliotrope who would believe it? 

 are not two hundred years old. The 

 Dahlia was born in 1 802 ; and the Gla- 

 diolus is of yesterday. 



