Show I 1 lie he the special associations this I 1 plant lias has with our country nip as happ py as they are arc unique its very doiy name naino suggests su columbia nor or is it any triv lil lal play apon words but a 0 similarity of tile remar kalle imme si As is avell oll known the name columbus in his native eatn e language Inn suie menns dove a circum I 1 stance ot of poetical suggestiveness eniss on re balliu how lo he 10 lile like noahs messenger of old brought back tidings of a newfound world bild moreover it Is a familiar fact f a et that the columbine rec receded elved its linie lime on account of the which aich oue one form of the flower bears to a group of dove 0 o w tins this form grows nelld ld in the region where columbus was bom and plo in ia the rocky Mount mountain dountain loun tain aln states 0 so o it is soen coan that tins this attribute of the flower which suggested sugs ested its name may also suggest cst our c count rys discoverer aud and our count rys title among the li allons new york tribune |