. The language of flowers: or, Floral emblems of thoughts, feelings, and sentiments ... Flower language. THE CHINA ASTER. The plants raised from the seeds sent by M. D'Incarville yielded only one variety, and flowers of uniform colour. Eventually, the velvety florets which surrounded the disc, were doubled, quadrupled, and varied indefinitely by cul- tivation. Some have thought, but erroneously, that the Chinese were acquainted only with the simple violet-coloured flower which had been sent to us. They have, in fact, all the sorts which attract our admiration, and they know how to make use of
. The language of flowers: or, Floral emblems of thoughts, feelings, and sentiments ... Flower language. THE CHINA ASTER. The plants raised from the seeds sent by M. D'Incarville yielded only one variety, and flowers of uniform colour. Eventually, the velvety florets which surrounded the disc, were doubled, quadrupled, and varied indefinitely by cul- tivation. Some have thought, but erroneously, that the Chinese were acquainted only with the simple violet-coloured flower which had been sent to us. They have, in fact, all the sorts which attract our admiration, and they know how to make use of these varieties so as to form, by means of the China Aster, decorations which words cannot ade- quately describe. To prepare the flowers for this purpose, they grow them in pots; they then arrange them according to their colour and shades of colour; and with such a fine art that they display them as a continuous border, with the utmost harmony. " I wished," writes Madame de la Tour, " to form a similar decoration, a noted traveller having said much to me about them; but there was wanting to secure the full effect, a like profusion of flowers, the vast variety of shades in each colour, which they possessed, and, beyond these, that remarkable Chinese patience, which disregards every difficulty. Still, my little display gave gratification to all, and many were surprised as well as myself, that such decorations were not adopted in our gardens, and more especially in our floral f^; As the emblem of variety, the China Aster owes its chief charms to successful culture. The skilful hand of the florist has surrounded her golden disc with all the colours of the rainbow. In like manner careful study and mental culture can develope great variety in the character of our natural SI E 2. 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 pe
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