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Taranaki Daily News, 17 February 1917, Page 6

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The fashionable flowers this season (for of course there are fashions in flowers these days as well as in everything else), says a writer in an English paper, is the good old-fashioned, everpipular snapdragon. It is such a liomc!y, everyday kind of flower that most of in take ;t as a matter of course. But it is having its turn now, and when we see its gorgeous rich colorings growing in profusion we realise that for beauty of coloring it can easily hold its c-wn with the many other special flowers t'lat have had long reigns of popularity Tnis fashion has certainly spread to New Zealand, where in many gardens this year the coial shades (both in Ji'nk and scarlet, as welt as wa:.v ether new shades) .have hwa lictkcabhi and remarkably beaut.'fnl. Rosalind, Countess of Carlisle, who lias just created a sensation in the neighborhood o_: Malton, Yorkshire, by "n owing away all the valuable wine in ■ wine eell',a'3 at Castle Howard, is a ■ iidsome old iady, with a forcible perUcnalitv. She is a keen temperance advocate and social reformer. She believes in the patriarchal system, which she carries out by arranging that the 'hole household shall have their meals the same tables. Castle Howard is of the biggest houses in Encland, d contains an enormous number of •oms. The Countess is the mother of I Hon. Geoffrey Howard, one of the Liberal AA'hips. Lady Carlisle » mem* h-r of the Stanley family. Her brothe. is Lord Sheffield, and she is aunt to Earl Russell.