Show A price for a I 1 paw new variety of plant tor parlor decoration in a florists window the other day the price being marked at the modest figure of in the passion for thia fiort of display which is now rampant xe in boston I 1 am told that the money expended is cot of all proportion to tha intrinsic value or beauty of the product aonia rare specimens being sought for in to one in which the attractions of form and color are conspicuous this sort of interest recalls the dutch babp mania and though there is perhaps ao danger that our flower fan will lose their heads as th old hollanders did yet it is worth that the latter were hard headed matter of fact people and it is such by the way who are apt to be most unsettled hy guat of excitement bretoi poss |