Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-03-13
\ REMARKABLE FLOWER.

\ KIM AKA AltIaN EIADh III
PROBABLY no other object I'M the noun
taius gives more pleasure 90 those who
love TO climb the higher hills or cree
ates more enthusiasm among the habi-
| tues Of the canyon summer resorts
than does the starred columbine" that
abouuds 80 plenufully near mountain
| lakes and on the cool moist slopes of
the loftier ridges of the entire plateau
region.
The columbine Is quite generally IA
yored by botanists as the national flow
or emblem; and it is a matter for regret
! that our inimitable western form has
not yet found It's place IN cultivation.
Many other forms OF this superb flower
abound IN the flower gardens Of the
world, but this surprising and won
drous western beauty Is still a stranger
TO the lands titled by man.
A writer in Farm and Home claims
that in American flower gardens the
columblne is unduly neglected.
This seems to be true and is also a
pity. for the plant Is singularly beau
tiful both IN foliage and flower
The spured blossoms possess a pc
cullar and airy grace as they swing
and poise clustered above the trifoliat
leaves. Eastern gardeners say that
the single flowers are the most graceful.
but the quaint double blooms OF three
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nests OF Chinese boxes have a charm
Of their own. THE junior gardener
prefers them, and strings their fallen
spurs into charming necklaces Of red
and blue and yellow and white for her
baby neck"
The wonderful variety of color in
columbines is sure to fascinate chill
dren and the bigger folk who are
blessed with "oolor madness" This
plant sets at naught the old saying
that one cannot have red blue and yell
low in the same species. The eastern
variety, Canadensis. which the country
children call wild honeysuckle, flames
out In red and yellow. "Sibirica afro
shade; skinner is scarlet and green;
there are pinks which shade into lilac
and link the chain to the puppies and
blues the blues soften into sky blue and
blue-white and from cream color II
glows into yellow; and as II this were
not variety enough. there are kinds
having two col0rs in a flower and bios
SONS which are gayly striped"
But the wild western columbine is
far more beautiful than any OF the
kinds commonly cultivated. This one
Is a native Of the high hills and cool
canyons. where IL IL found In an it's
grace OF form and delicacy Of coloring.
with us ln this latitude, Il rs usually
a snowy white. but often shades 10
blue. Farther north Il becomes deep
blue. while 10 the south Il ls said 20
become flaming rcd Thus We have
the national colors. the red, white
and blue. in the different homes OF this
one flower
Tho flower looked at from the side
presents, according 10 the fancy Of the
ola botanists, the appearance OF a
flock o. doves IN flight, whence the
name Of the species. from columbia, a
dove.
Now. IL has been noted that COLUMBIA
ls the feminine OF Columbus who went
forth from Europe like the dove from
the ark, 90 discover this land More
over the dove is the symbol OF peace.
aud the attitude of columbia, the land
VI columbus is thus declared ln the
national anthem. "Our motto ia peace.
Tho statesmen OF this country have
quite generally agreed that tho truo
course f1r America o. t0 feed and cl0the
rather than 10 neht other nations.
n happens. TOO, that the long. cury-
ing c0lumb.no spuu and tho petals
which bear them form "a perfect corni-
oopia, @ horn of plenty, similar 20 thosa
in which the chidreu's confectionery
delights are often put up. This form
of the petals be- taken 90 De B,mb1lir
~ me plenty and frlIJfuluess of ,n.s
favored land
Again tho aeptH. tho outer flower
leaves have o. shape very like that OF
mo cap of the goddess OF uborty-tho
cap she ia supposed b. wear. Of he
lll6 pattern ou tho Fourth OF July.
when the CoIunhIue is blooming. ana
when. as wan Carleton says;
'fhe great procession comes up tho
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