Rensselaer Journal, Volume 12, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 October 1902 — Revival of Old Flowers. [ARTICLE]

Revival of Old Flowers.

Florists report an extraordinary revival of interest in old-fashioned flowers. Country estates have sent them orders too large to be filled for verbenas, pansies, marigolds, phlox and sch quaint old favorites. The aster nearly as popular this year as the chrysanthemum in its palmiest days ever was. The most remarkable revival, says the New York Evening Post, is that of the waxy white camelia,' which reigned supreme in the early ’7os. The demand for this flower as a man’s buttonhole decoration threatens to send the gardenia into obscurity^