Show S BLOSSOMS BLOSSO MS s II 11 at 1 faster time tim e il I 1 b HEN an old dutch resident declares of an april morning that the pans lilles by the stoop are out he Is not referring to the american pasque pasqua flower or to easter illes alles but to the beloved hardy common daffodil narcissus pseudo narcissus called balled also the lent illy that they are not lilies illies but like all narcissi members of the amaryllis amaryll ls family did not concern our gardeners says a writer in the new york herald tribune who knew but a score or so eo species of a flower that in at least three centuries of cultivation has multiplied with such beautiful confusion that even botanists do not agree about it while simple visitors to the flower show are driven to adopt the plan of catling calling daffodils narcissi and jonquils nil all narcissus which Is right and safe if not spee specific inc A P Z the modern easter lily modern methods of cold storage have made the best known paschal flower once truly the bermuda easter illy an all year adornment the american pasque flower Is a wild anemone which keeps to the northern central states and Is not familiar here the pasque flower of europe Is also an anemone and it I 1 Is possible that the poppy flowered anemone of mediterranean meadows red blue and purple like those local florists are selling today was the gorgeous bloom to which christ pointed when he admired the lilies of jhb th field in mexico the poinsettia it 1 often called flor do de pascua the easter cactus bergera belongs to horny old kitchen windows but the flower most appropriate of all to easter Is too rarely seen since grandmas grandeas grand mas conservatory waned the cerulean passion flower in its itself if and in its story it Is exquisite not to be forgotten at the season of earths resurrection and of the triumphant festival of the church the first spanish explorers be beholding bolding it as it trailed from branches bra hes in south i american forests were struck with I 1 wonder finding in its strange form the lands land s own glorification of their task of conversion legend gathered quickly about A drawing of it brought from mexico created a sensation at rome in 1610 it was proclaimed proclaim to enfold all the mysteries of the passion the ten colored parts of the floral envelope says bailey to an ardent fancy represented the ten apostles present at the crucifixion the inner fringes became the crown of thorns the five stamens the ri five ive wounds or bir else the hammers that drove in the three nails in that case represented by the three styles the vines dinels colling coiling tendrils were ohp cords or scourges urges wh while ile the leaves with their fengers s might have hen h en the hands of christs or tor tormentors mentors that this natural manifestation of chris van belief should have beep hidden in the new worlds jungles astounds astounded A europe and not long ago even dutch reformed household would as soon have lacked pass mies us as passion vines at caster baster |