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Show IT 1 Flower Fashions. t FASHIONS chango even. In flowers. There was a time when the- fuch-I fuch-I Ela was nil the rage. Then the dahlia had a tlrrfo of immense pop-' pop-' , ularlty, and hundreds of now va- irletles were on tho market. Then came tho turn of tho chryBanthc- mum, but as it needed a houso and a lot of attention It was coon left to tho f .specialist, liko tho orchid. Thon camo I the great swect-pea boom. Anybody whe had a garden at all ,lUcd It with owect poa3, and new varieties woro called after every imaginable person of note on earth. I Now there is a now star tho snnp- dragon. Pcoplo used rather to dosplso thlH flower. But, lo, tho expert has taken notice of it, and It has suddenly becomo tho rage. Everybody will bo ' growing snapdragons next summer. If tho seed-pods aro nipped off, thoy put i out new shoots, which bear flowers, un- til ono imagines they are, liko Tcnny- son's brook, going " on for over." |