New-York tribune., 1906-05-13

garded as other than reasonable and dis,Oyal
by the authorities at Vienna and the conse.
Quence is that in the northern part of the EN-.
plre the cornfiower has been placed under the
same ban as the daisy in the south. Thus faI
there are only three so-caled flower parties in
the Dual Empire. namely. that Of the daisy in
the south, that of the corniower in the north
and that of the tulip in Hungary proper As
however there are about a score of Nationalist
factions in the Rechsrath at Vienna and about
a dozen more in the Magyar LegisIature at
Budapest. it is to be hoped that they will not
be prompted by the recent formation of the
Tulip Society to select flowers as their political
emblems, Otherwise the florists subject to
Francis Josephs kindly rule might just as vel
shut up their shops and retire from business.
since one flower after another would be placed
under legal ban.
While in France the wearing of flowers has
not yet been punished as a political crime vet
the presence of certain flowers in mems button
holes and on wOmens corsages, especially at
election time and in political crises is likely 10
invite inconvenient and disagreeable attention
on the part of the uniformed and secret police
Thus the white carnation betokens monarchicaI
opinions and royalist sympathes 1t is af-
fected by those misguided people who are fool
ish enough to believe that France would be bet
ter off under the sceptre of the disreputabIe and
completely discredited Duke of Orleans than
under the sagacious rule Of the republic to which
she is indebted for five and thirty years of uns
paraIleed prosperity. The violets have always
been the emblem of the house of Bonaparte since
the reign of the first Napoleon. At the memo
rial services held each year at Paris on the an
niversary of the death of Napoleon III and Of
the unfortunate Prince Imperial who perished
in Zululand every man and woman in the con-
M no Of X-in-
let's. Red carnations were the badge of the par
tisanS Of General Boulanger. and for a time were
in great demand such; but the manner i'll
which they suddenly vanished from buttonholes
when the ignon1inious fight of lie brav' general"
to Belgium and to England became known was
altogether phenomenal.
OF course the lilies stand in hsraldry for the
house of Bourbon, and are frequently referred to
by French authors and poets Of the Middle Ages
the 'feur de Louis" owing to their having
been the badge of many French kings of the
name Of Louis. There are eminent antiquarians,
however. who claim that the golden lilies on the
white flag of the former nonarchs Of Franco
were either lance heads or else mere frogs. and
there is in existence 4 whole library of books
dealing with this abstruse question.
In the fifteenth century England was devas-
tated by the horrors of the most disastrous
civil war Of its entire history. II known
as the War of the Roses. owing to the fact that
the badge Of the followers of the Duke of York
the white rose and that of the house Of
Lancaster the red rose The rose is a flower
which, from time immemorial. has been assoc
ciated in the eyis of the English people with
its royalty. and for hundreds of years judges.
when deciding any question of Importance and
delivering a decree, were wont to hold either
bunch of roses or even a single of these
flowers in their hand. in token of the authority
delegated to them by the crown. and Of the fact