Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 September 1917 — Popularity of Snapdragon. [ARTICLE]

Popularity of Snapdragon.

Fashions change even in flowers. There was a time when the fuchsia was all the rage. Then the dahlia had a time of immense popularity and hundreds of new varieties were on the market. Then came the turn of the chrysanthemum, but, as it needed a house and a lot of attention, it was soon left to the specialist, like the orchid. Then came the great sweet pea boom. Anybody who had a garden at all filled it with sweet peas and new varieties jvere called after every imaginable person of note on earth. Now there is a new star —the snapdragon. People used rather to despise this flower. But, lo! the expert had taken notice of it and it has suddenly become the rage. If the seed pods are nipped off they put out new shoots* which bear flowers until one imagine* they are, like Tennyson’s brook, going; “on forever.”