. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. ODCN l^TTEa*)y^ KEADED6 THE NATIONAL FLOWER AGAIN. A Subject That Will Not Down. hi all trades, professions or walks of life we meet spooks. By spooks I mean questions returning periodically, caus- ing people to use a lot of printers' ink, arousing excitement, making enemies of friends and then often vanishing as mysteriously as they appeared. Many of them, however, after having been voluminously discussed, finally take defi- nite form and emerge from the realm of spooks to become laws, customs or insti- tutions, adopted or sanctione<l by so- ci
. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. ODCN l^TTEa*)y^ KEADED6 THE NATIONAL FLOWER AGAIN. A Subject That Will Not Down. hi all trades, professions or walks of life we meet spooks. By spooks I mean questions returning periodically, caus- ing people to use a lot of printers' ink, arousing excitement, making enemies of friends and then often vanishing as mysteriously as they appeared. Many of them, however, after having been voluminously discussed, finally take defi- nite form and emerge from the realm of spooks to become laws, customs or insti- tutions, adopted or sanctione<l by so- ciety. The national flower spook has ap- peared in the columns of the horticul- tural papers and I am prompted to make a few remarks regarding it. Some of the State Flowers. There arc two factors that may lead to the selection of a state or national llower: Historical events and the de- sire of the people not to lag beliind the rest of the world through not having such a national oinbleni. Some people may say we ought to wait till some his- torical event would give us a national fiower, but modern people, especially Americans, livo so fast that they can- not patiently await such an event. Let us suppose, therefore, that the de- sire for an arbitrarily designated na- tional flower is justified. Great care ought to be exercised in adopting one, for we all want our new national flower to be popular among all classes of peo- ple. We do not want a national flower that exists on paper only, like so many of the state flowers. Who knows what is the state flower of Oklahoma! The people of Oklahoma do not know. The school children and teachers may know. It is no flower at all. It is a farm plant —alfalfa. This fact would not bar it from the list of successful state flowers. Hasn't Scotland the much despised this- tle as a national emblem? But alfalfa will never be really popular in Okla- homa, except among the bottom-land farmers in dry years, when the chinch bugs eat their wheat and the
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