Country Life
WAR ON FI.OWERS.
Flowers are very important things : their cult grows daily ; but by the same token their number decreases in the Wild; • though. it 'increases in the tame. A good many flower-lOvers are very much in that same contradictory state of mind as --Torn' Tulliver, who was " very fond of birds : that 'is; of thrciWing stones at thein." They are' so fond of flowers that they root -them up, gather them, and often sprinkle the roads with them at every opportunity. The flowery months begin : the anemones are in bud and groups of primroses" shout," as Meredith says, from the banks. In a-thousand-nooks you may.find violets that recall the .Tenny- sonian imperative : " Smell 'em, man, smell 'em." It- is well to Consider the question in general, to the end that flower-loVers at any -rate may agree among themselves and avoid such Collisions as the Bishop of Gloucester, that happy botanist; advertises in the Times. - _ .
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