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Show FLOWERS USED AS EMBLEMS Have Geen Distinguishing Mark of Factions aa Long aa There It Record. The determination of the "loyal" Ulster men to Induce every man, woman wom-an and child to wear a flower ua a token of their aversion to homo rule romlnda ono how often flowors havo been used as emblems. Since the leadors of tho Yorkist and Lancastrian partlea each pluckod n rose In tho Templo gardens, tho Lun-cnstrlnn Lun-cnstrlnn a red and the Yorkist a white, this (lower haa beon n popular emblem. Apart from tho fact that red roses nro symbolical of lovo and whlto of purity, tho English national emblem Is tho rose; the Legitimist party of Franco formed tho Loaguo of tho Roso In Imitation of Kngland's Primrose looguoi vMo owing to Gladstone's fondness for' whlto rosea many liberals once wished to make them nti omblonr for their party, but tbo Idea waa not adopted The primrose, It Is said, was Uoa-conafleld's Uoa-conafleld's favorite flower, nud hat been chosen by his followers, who formed tho Prlmroso loaguo, aa an emblem, whilo in Franco, tho violet, bccatiBo of Its purple huo, was worn by Imperialists as an Informal tokon ot their loyalty to the Honapartcs. When tho son of tho ox-Empress Eugenie was brought home to bo burlod after being killed In the Zulu campaign, his body was almost coverod In violets. Thon, again, thero nro favorite national na-tional emblems. There are tho Idles ot Franco, tho thistle for Scotland, the shamrock for Ireland, tbo leok for Wales, and tho maple leaf for Canada. Tho United States has no national flower and probably never will, owing to Ub wldo range of cllmato, which makos the selection of a flower of unt vorsal popularity almost Impossible. |