The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 23, 1903, Page 9

{b ODePDand ite Flower Is Yellow and Looks Like the Head of a Football Miss Alice i into & guart bow a pronounced 4 certain foot- who last season arked attention. 1ad mo particular owers for their was fond of sit- ere he could see all He called it White House r to have the r on his return from who isn't & scion of roy- ty near being an e finest chrysan- id. It is located in es & whole green- les of Helen Gould's River home—Helen's Bables, they to walk down oW every fall; and half Hg girls of New York find their way to Tarrytown by some means erd walk down the row. Here are chrys- hemums in , and one flower eth from anofer in size, in color But to the layman alike. the chrysanthemum grower will contradict you if you tell bim this, and will declare that a curly locks is as aif- ferent 2 an Alice Roosevelt as is a a tea rose, and he will be- his knowledge of the small, straight petaled nd ragged egul The Flower as a Peacemaker. santhemum, besides being an wer, has acted as a peace- n a ume there was a zarina was not of Ttaly: that th were trying for Allx of Hefse won Montenegro home in a zossip, but gossip So the Czarina, when e r time; and whe to far-off f+a ter she ordered great 1f they can & > work harm—as a you found out. This & . walking by permission unds at Potsdam, saw - of the walks & beauti- ful white flower which she recognized as themum. In fact, the walk was the flowers, not large ones, of the sort that gr side of the young wo- would make a pret- it to the palace d picked the flowes P HOTHTHINY X fowiw guor \ ZEXRNERA ) LLRFT 5 LOLIN \ ¥ ,.when the rearly faint- rican girl's wit drew near, she lower up to the Emperor and to his Majesty with a decp bow and a sweet le. The bow and the smile had to do, for she could not speak a word of German The Kaiser took the flower, bowed gal- lantly and In very good English thanked young woman. Then he ordered the uard to release her, chiding him for be- ing so lacking in gallantry, Loubet, Eugenie and Bernhardt. President Loubet loves the chrysanthe- mum and Mme. Loubet, who is not a sen- timental woman, also loves it. In their pretty summer home, just outside Parls, they raise the largest white specimens grown in the French capital; and thess madame contributes to her pet charities, sending out great bunches of them out every day during the fail Madame Bernhardt and the ex-Empress Eugenie are the only public women on record who do not like chrysanthemums. Eugenie is too Spanish to like them with their lack of scent, for her ‘ex-Majesty must have heavy- odors; and Bernhardt e lplerpaliopal ildreny fectiop f]owe/' % dces not o too vivid. my eyes,” King Alfouso has just had & bed of chrysanthemums set out in one ef the Toyal greenhouses. The Spanish conser- vatory is not very large, for the outdoer blooms are so superb. But the King, who likes to own a complete assortment of bo- tanical specimens, has ordered the gar- dener to place one plant of esch known color in the greenhouse. But it is the little Queen Wilhelmina who has the prettiest collection of chry- santhemum flowers in Europe. Her Ma- Jesty chooses them for thelr brilllanay of coloring as well as for their size, and dur- ing the season she always has a great pot of them upon her window ledge. The Queen is very fond of flowers and they form the chief ornament of her summer house. The Palace in the Woods is vivid with them. When the Queen goes to drive this time leading out of Amsterdam know the reyed equipage by the waving flowers If in ne other way. It is the custom to rise «id bow and wave handkerchiefs or chrysan~ themums at the Queen as she passes. The American Flower. But it is the American millionaires a4 home and abroad who revel in chrysanthe- mums and their culture. The Gould chry- santhemum house at Lakewcod is worth theusands of doll but not more than the Carnegie chrysanthemum house af Skibo Castle. The Bradley Martins were probably the first people to make a specialty of rare chrysanthemum growing abroad, and when they bullt their chrysanthemum house at Baal ma caan, their Scottish shooting box, it was the talk of the gar- deners of the country, for it seemed im-~ possible that a scentless flower could ate tain such popularity. Tt was a floral screen of chrysanthe« mums that saved the day and the mod- ty pf Andrew Carnegie’s organist. That gentleman was in the swimming pool when there arrived’ a breathless messen- ger ying that King Edward was com- g to make a visit and that the royal equipage was even then at the door. His Ma 's telegram had been delayed. Rushing to the swimming pool, Mr. Carnegie dragged eut the organist, whe was hurried off to the big organ to peal forth “God Save the King.” while King Edward entered and they could scarce tilt upon thelr stems. The Dowager Empress has dous s greal benefit to the world by her rare genee in botanical matters and the bo- tanical progress of the world has been derful enthusiasm M foriculture. Hex prizes are competed for by the finesy in Eurcpe and asia. ma the fair flower of fall has become a fashionable fad. No othes flower ever attained half its furor. It s carried in the fail by matron and mald blem. The United States grows the big- gest chrysanthemum flowers in the world and it is pleasant to know that its out exported for the flower grows ers of other eounirias 1o sea.