| Show the ideal national rhower when a flower is found which can arouse and genuine patriotic enthusiasm or has become associated closely with some great and universally beloved man or woman it will become tho national emblem without tho necessity of legislative action except as a formal ratification of a universal sentiment under such circumstances only will people relegate their personal floral favorites to a second place it will not matter when this event hap pens whether it is a plant useful to man or a weed it wilL become the national flower just the same it was this sentiment which made the thistle the national flower of scotland and the cornflower the national flower of the german empire and it must bo a similar chain of circumstances which gives us a national flower philadelphia ledger |
