FASHION IN FLOWERSNemesia is good this year.
Nemesia is good every year, but now it has come into public favor, and the greenhouse people are wishing they had planted more. Nemesia is popularly called Persian Carpet, and I had a dream of a rectangular bed of it, with a gold border of tagetas, to carry out the idea of a rug. The bed I still have, but it will be planted with snapdragon instead, for when I went to buy nemesia plants they were gone.
No one can tell why popular favor fluctuates from one flower to another. We know no more about it than we do of rising and falling hemlines or waistlines, or why some books sell and others, equally good or better, stick on the shelves in book stores, and at last go out as "remainders."
The first flower I owned, after I had a home of my own, was
