. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. Chas. A. Juengel. (President St. Louis Florists' Club.) That Floral Fracas. sent a new candidate for popular prefer- ment. It is, of course, the columbine. "The flower's very name," says the asso- ciation, "suggests Columbia, which is not a trivial play upon words, but a similarity of remarkable significance. It is well known that the name Columbus in its native language means dove—a circumstance full of poetic suggestiveness. Fortunate and remarkable also are the associations which cluster about th
. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. Chas. A. Juengel. (President St. Louis Florists' Club.) That Floral Fracas. sent a new candidate for popular prefer- ment. It is, of course, the columbine. "The flower's very name," says the asso- ciation, "suggests Columbia, which is not a trivial play upon words, but a similarity of remarkable significance. It is well known that the name Columbus in its native language means dove—a circumstance full of poetic suggestiveness. Fortunate and remarkable also are the associations which cluster about the flower's other name, aquilegia. It has been generally understood by generation.* of those who have used it to be connected with aquila, an eagle. Associated thus with the type of inoffensiveness, the harmless dove, is the thought of the American eagle, emblematic of fearless power, fittingly symbolical of Columbia's attitude toward other ; Here is a plain challenge which the dis- ciples of thegoldenrod, the sunflower and the wild rose will not overlook. Of all the states which have "state flowers," either officially adopted or commonly accepted, only one, Colorado, has yielded to the sophistry of these philological arguments, and a flower that stands for the "dove" does not typify even Colorado —not just now. In Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota and Alabama, which have all declared for the goldenrod, the col- umbine cult will be looked upon as sheer heresy. In Kansas, which has adopted the sunflower with true Kansas enthus- iasm, the columbine propaganda is likely to result in open riot.—Chicago Daily News. a small plant, and for this reason alone will probably quickly become popular. It has received an award of merit from the Royal Horticultural Society. For its introduction we to Mr. Chettleburgh, Worstead House Gardens, Norwich, and from him Messrs. Bull & Sons have acquired the whole stock. / This bougainvillea may be
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