Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 September 1883 — A Pretty Stery. [ARTICLE]

A Pretty Stery.

It is always pleasant to associate a romance with a favorite flower. The story of the cultivation of the jasmine, with its delicate yellow floxvers and delightfuFodorj, in France, as told by the New York Mail, deserves to be remembered. The Duke of Tuscany, it is said, had brought one plant with him from the tropical countries he visited and placed it, with many injunctions for its careful tendance, in the hands of his gardener, intending to present it as an offering to the Princess of France. The gardener had a sweetheart, and, wishing to please her, he one day broke ofl’ a slip of the cherished plant and offered it to her. She planted it, lidping thus to preserve it for her weddingday, and, to -her delight, it took root, throve and grew into a stately bush, from which she gathered flowers salable for their rarity, and so accumulated a sum of money which facilited her marriage. To this day the maidens "of Tuscany wear a sprig of jgsmine in token that they can bring 5 a lucky dower to the man of their choice.