. Familiar garden flowers . Flowers; Plants, Ornamental; Floriculture. THE COMMON MAEIGOLT). ('(rU'Uflnla officii/oils. EOM the common mario-old here faithfully figured, and suggestive of soup, to the delicate French marigold, Tuifcle'! jiaiula,i\vAi the Horists grow for exhibition, and bring to a perfection of geometric marking that makes a place in floriculture for mathematics, what a stride ! Fifty years ago a flower show of a very individual nature engrossed my attention and made a very deep impression on my mind. It consisted entirely of common marigolds, and the scene was the churchyard
. Familiar garden flowers . Flowers; Plants, Ornamental; Floriculture. THE COMMON MAEIGOLT). ('(rU'Uflnla officii/oils. EOM the common mario-old here faithfully figured, and suggestive of soup, to the delicate French marigold, Tuifcle'! jiaiula,i\vAi the Horists grow for exhibition, and bring to a perfection of geometric marking that makes a place in floriculture for mathematics, what a stride ! Fifty years ago a flower show of a very individual nature engrossed my attention and made a very deep impression on my mind. It consisted entirely of common marigolds, and the scene was the churchyard of St. Botolph, Ald- nate, where these flowers had run wild, and, as wild things are wont to do, had taken care to keep the race going, so that there should be no lack of wild marigolds from year to year, for in truth the ground was literally covered with them as with a pave- ment of stars stamped out of the rinds of oranges. At that early date I had heard, Init had never tasted, nf soup flavoured or adorned — I knew not which — with. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Hibberd, Shirley, 1825-1890; Hulme, F. Edward (Frederick Edward), 1841-1909. London : Cassell
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