Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 May 1884 — The Love of Flowers. [ARTICLE]

The Love of Flowers.

A love of flowers seems. to be part of our common nature, implanted in almost every breast in almost every clime. Is it not possible that this feeling, so general, so refining, so humanizing, has descended to us from our first parents —from that garden planted by the Almighty’s hand—as a drop of s weet-mvrar bitter hereditaryeup of grief and sin ? There is something pleasing in the very sound of the word garden; it reminds us of flowers and fruits; it reminds us of Eden, of Gethsemane! Purchased plants, though they ,jpay adorn a house, confer no ple^sure^ln 1 'V Oi •. *• ■’ •)

the owner; he may like them as adopted children; he cannot .love them as his own. Perhaps, reader, you only like flowers; raise a few from the seed up to perfect fruition, and you will love them; you will then have attained that which the Roman Emperor’s boundless wealth and power could not procure—a new and innocent pleasure.