History and stories of Nebraska . \ . ^iCONSTlTUTiONV- ^/V Nebraska Tehkitobial Seal. Nebraska State Seal. {From photograph collection of A. E. Sheldon.) 203 NEBRASKAS FLOWER FOR many years Nebraska had no official state people were too busy making homes to give theselection of a state flower much thought and too thankful forevery flower which grew on the prairies and along the streamsto choose from among the anemones and violets, the roses, the amorphas or shoestrings,the spiderworts, the puccoonsor Indian paint brushes, thegoldenrods and sunflowers, oneflower which should be pre-f
History and stories of Nebraska . \ . ^iCONSTlTUTiONV- ^/V Nebraska Tehkitobial Seal. Nebraska State Seal. {From photograph collection of A. E. Sheldon.) 203 NEBRASKAS FLOWER FOR many years Nebraska had no official state people were too busy making homes to give theselection of a state flower much thought and too thankful forevery flower which grew on the prairies and along the streamsto choose from among the anemones and violets, the roses, the amorphas or shoestrings,the spiderworts, the puccoonsor Indian paint brushes, thegoldenrods and sunflowers, oneflower which should be pre-ferred before all the others. As the years went on thefeeling grew that Nebraskashould have a state flower andthe people set about choosingone. It was agreed that theflower chosen should be in it-self a fit emblem of Nebraskaand that it should be foundgrowing abundantly in all partsof the state. So they lookedover the prairies, the plains,the woods, the valleys and thesandhills. Everywhere theyfound the bright, graceful,cheery goldenrod, beautiful notonly in the tender green leafan
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