Old-Fashioned Flowers 



THIRD PAPER 



A MOXG annuals few plants were more 

 /A popular than the Gillyflower. ~No 

 garden -was complete without a bed 

 of it. Many of the plants bore single 

 flowers of no particular beauty, but they 

 were prized for their spicy fragrance, and 

 the plants bearing double flowers were 

 •exhibited to admiring neighbors with all 

 the pride the professional gardener takes 

 in the exhibition of some specimen of .his 



grew them because they were so bright 

 and cheerful, and asked so little care. 

 They never once thought of being coaxed, 

 as so many of our modern flowers have 

 to be. The large double ones brightened 

 like a bonfire that part of the garden in 

 which they grew. They were almost the 

 only yellow flowers grown in those days. 

 The little velvet marigolds, with petals of- 

 brown, of so intense a tone that it seemed 

 almost black in the shade, but with a 

 suggestion of gold showing when you 



iioricultural skill. Often fine plants of 

 it were potted in fall, and they made the 

 -window of the living-room bright through 

 the long months of a dreary winter. I^e- 

 cause of its late-flowering qualities it is 

 one of our very best garden flowers. It 

 blooms until winter is upon us. Every 

 garden ought to have a bed of it. It is 

 of the easiest cultivation. Any amateur 

 €an grow it if she will give its seeds a 

 mellow soil to germinate in, and feed it 

 Tvell thereafter. 



Marigolds were stand-bys. Every one 



looked at it in the sun, were always prime 

 favorites, as they deserved to be. They 

 were most appropriately named, for every 

 petal seemed cut from velvet of the richest 

 quality. I have seldom found persons 

 who agreed with me about the odor of 

 the marigold. Few admire it, but I have 

 always been fond of it. It has that aro- 

 matic quality which appeals to me in such 

 plants as the Southernwood and Chamo- 

 mile. There is something quite like a 

 tonic for tired nerves and brain in its 

 pungencv. We have few better annuals 



