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Calla lilies, all sorts of geraniums, passion flowers, moss roses I do not know the names of a tenth part of them. I only know that while New Yorkers are burdened with banks and drifts of snow, Californians are burdened with banks and drifts of flowers, if they only keep their hands off and let them grow.
We remember, among them, red and white roses, pansies, violets, heliotropes, sweet peas, gardenias, camelias, both calla and tiger lilies, honeysuckles, forget-me-nots, verbenas, pinks in a variety of colors, larkspur, jasmine, petunias, morning glories, tulips, scarlet geraniums, and others. Three military bands placed in central positions added spirit and interest to the suggestive occasion.
It chanced that they were all in stock at the present time, and it would be no trouble at all to let us hear them play. "Our incomparable maestro he is no longer remembered," said the manager, mournfully. "The public now it is that they demand what you calla hot stuff 'Loosianner Loo' and the 'Lobster Intermezzo, Per Bacco! if they would but open their ears la la there it goes
We could not hope to convey to those who have never heard him, any just conception of that fascination so ineffably poetic, that charm subtle and penetrating as the delicate perfume of the vervain or the Ethiopian calla, which, shrinking and exclusive, refuses to diffuse its exquisite aroma in the noisome breath of crowds, whose heavy air can only retain the stronger odor of the tuberose, the incense of burning resin.
"How rightly named you are! 'Lilly. One of those big, milky-spathed, calla lilies. Calla Lilly." "We'll be going now," she said, feeling for her jacket. They rode down to Eleventh Street in a cab, almost silently, and as she sat looking out, unsmiling, she could feel his gaze burn her profile. He left her at the stoop, standing bareheaded. "You've saved me from an evening of horrors."
Benny's house seemed the smallest and poorest of the lot, though it had Calla lilies too and other sorts of flowers, and a mat with "welcome" on it, and some kind of a dog that licked our hands as we walked up the front steps and answered to the name of Dook. Benny pushed open the door and went in, me at his heels, and both of us nervous as cats.
In Florida, the calla lily has use as well as beauty; it is cultivated for its potato-like tubers. Much as the study of flowers heightens our interest in them, their first, their chief enduring charm consists in their simple beauty their infinitely varied grace of form, their exhaustless wealth of changeful tints.
Behind Constance stood a servant carrying a basket and as the girls watched she purchased an enormous bunch of daffodils, a sheaf of calla lilies, and a quantity of narcissus. "Isn't she sweet in that soft green suit," commented Edith admiringly. Turning from the stall, Connie saw and hailed them. "Have you seen the fish-market?" she asked after greeting them gayly. "Oh, you must not miss that.
It was a female figure draped in black, and a closer inspection for I was soon within a few yards of her showed that she wore the calla, or long hooded cloak, the most common as well as the most ancient garment of Irish women, and doubtless of Spanish origin.
No wonder the dog sniffed and the children smiled, for there was a noble display of little tarts and cakes, little biscuits and sandwiches, a pretty milk-pitcher shaped like a white calla rising out of its green leaves, and a jolly little tea-kettle singing away over the spirit-lamp as cosily as you please. "Isn't it perfectly lovely?" whispered Betty, who had never seen any thing like it before.
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