The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-05-16

ried coIors of yellow, pink, purple and red it affords great beauty to many
 wide stretches of landscape. The blue bonnet, which fiourishes in Texas, is the flower of the Lone Star state. Utah has selected the segO lily, which is a typical growth on the shores of Great Salt Lake and other bodies of water there, as the flower of the state, A characteristic selection of the useful as well as the beautiful is that of red clover, by Vermont, a plant which not only beautifes the hillsides and val leys of the Green Mountain state, but affords a large amount of the hon. ey made by her bees and also serves to feed the cattle on a thousand hills and
 to afford them sustenance in winter when it is dry in the barns for their Iuse,
 There are now thirty-two of the for ty-fiye states which have chosen their flowers, all save California, Kansas and Connecticut having giyen the school children voice in the matter. Action is expected from several of the remaining thirteen and has already been taken by Oklahoma before she became a full-dedgcd member of the union as she will on July next, when she assumes her place and when the forty-siXth star will lawfully appear on the flag. The mistletoe is the floral emblem for this new one Of the sister hood of states.
 Among the characteristic flowers IWhich are used for especial purposes abroad the primrose is worn in Eng land on the birthday of the Earl of
 Beaconsdeld (Benjanin DisraelD. On the anniversary of the death of | Charles Stewart Parueu sprig of ivy
 is worn by his followers. The Jacob- 1 ties of England wear white roses on
 June 10 in honor of Bonnie Prince l Charlie. In France the B0napartists wear violcts as their distinguishing flower and the Orleanists wear white 1 daisies.
 The origin of the use of the primrose
 to commemorate Lord Beaconsfeld is curious. At the time of his death, in ! 1881, Queen Victoria sent mass of ! primrose to place on his coffin, with l the inscription, His Favorite Flower '" She intended this to refer to the liking 1 of her much-mourned husband. Prince l Albert, for that flower, but the ad- mirers of Beacousdeld took it to refer l to him and so every conservative in England wears a primrose on the an- |niyersary of the statesmans death. April 19.
 ] The effort few years ago to make ! the goldenrod the national flower of ! this country was not successful, al- though it was more favored than any
 other proposed, since it is so widely
 distributed, The sacred lily, or lotus
 flower of Egypt was consccrated to
 the gods, and Osiris was portrayed with his head wreathed with this flower. and so it came to be cons derel ,ae m tional emblem of Egypt. It was also
 used as a sacred symbol in India. In , Persia the rose is regarded as tb1 most popular flower, In Greece tho violet was the national flower in an- CIent days, and Athens was desienated the "city of the violet crown" Emf
 this was not used to decorate the win- ners in national games. A crown of wild olives was bestowed on the vic- ! tor in the OlyJnpan contests, laurel on the Pythian victor a crown of pine leaves in the Eleau contests and Wild parsley on the Ncmeau victor. Th.
 garland of oak leaves was bestowed on
 the Roman soldier as the highest civic
 honor.
 When the Moors were driven out of
 Spain after the conquest of Granada
 Ferdinand and Isabella added tfc i tpomegranate, the flower of Granada
 to the arms Of Spain, and 1t became
 the national emblem. When Kim
 Louis VII Of France set out on a cru.
 sade to the Holy Land he selected th,
 heur-de-lis as his floral emblem. A
 cluster of the flowers aftorward an.
 pearcd on the French flag, but Kna
 Henry " changed this to a sinell
 tieur-de-lis on a blue background. Ma.
 polcon I changed the emblem from the
 lily to the bee, but with his downfall
 the flower was restored. The choicc
 of the violet as their flower by thr