Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 September 1884 — The Old-Fashioned Sort. [ARTICLE]

The Old-Fashioned Sort.

On many sides I see evidences that the old-fashioned flowers are coming into fresh favor. A bright lady writer gives it as her experience and observation that there is a decided restoration of the flowers of our grandmothers’ gardens, such as peonies, poppies, hollyhocks, sweet williams, clove pinkl, yellow lilies, columbines, blue bells, fleur delis, monk’s hood, phloxes, lychnis, sweet sultan, and the like. They are not only, for the most part, beautiful in color and form, but a great advantage of their cultivation is that when once planted they will delight the senses for years if only a little attention is given to them in the spring by digging about the roots, and applying a plentiful supply of rich compost, and dividing their roots in the autumn if found too crowded. They bloom at a season when flowers are most welcome. —Lancaster (Pa.) Intelligencer. Polks are coming over in large numbers to work on farms. We should think Poles would find lots to do in hop yards.