Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 October 1884 — Cultivate Flowers. [ARTICLE]

Cultivate Flowers.

Our climate and soil are well adapted ■to the production of the choicest varieties of flowers, yet we Americans are shamefully deficient in this respect compared with England and France. Everywhere in England—in the farmhouses, in the cottages, in town and city—flowers abound at all times. You see them in the dooryards, in the windows, running and blooming vines, from the basement to the fourth story of h ouses. We hardly ever see anythin g cf the kind in this country. It should be one of the objects of society to promote a greater love for flowers, and the more extensive cultivation of them.