KERAMIC STUDIO 
73 
MY COUNTRY'S FLOWER 
(Continued from Editorial page) 
The columbine's flowers are composed of five petals, like 
tiny cornucopias, suggesting our horn of plenty, and hers 
deserve that name also. Some have called these liberty caps; 
and as she is a little goddess of liberty, it is a pleasing conceit. 
There are five sepals forming a star about her winsome face, 
which suggests our star of destiny. 
She has been called a coquette; but her charming coquetry 
is for her friends, the bumblebee and the scarlet-throated 
humming bird, her real benefactors. For them she wears 
her most brilliant colors, and they in turn bring her the golden 
pollen in exchange for her nectar stores; no idle play, but reci- 
procity in its fullest sense. She cannot be called bold, for 
she seeks the wild places for her habitat. Where other flowers 
would die, we find her poised, like some brilliant bird, sub- 
sisting on little except air and sunshine. She is a flower of 
the sun, and it has been said that she was a favorite of the 
lion, the sun-emblem of the ancients. 
There are many beautiful varieties of the columbine the 
world over. But three are distinctly American: the red, 
aquilegia canadensis, found most commonly in the eastern and 
central sections of the United States; the white, aquilegia alba, 
found in the extreme Western states, eastern California and 
parts of the Rocky Mountains; the blue aquilegia carulea, 
growing in the Rocky Mountains. This variety is the State 
flower of California. 
She has found her way into heraldic blazonry — her red 
for magnanimity, her white for innocence, her blue for loyalty. 
Spenser, Chaucer, Shakespeare and many other poets 
have paid her homage. 
There is a deep reason for adopting a flower that shall be 
known as the floral emblem of the United States of America. 
What are we doing in the arts and crafts for posterity that is 
purely national? 
How the nations of yesterday lived, what they believed 
and what their aspirations were are largely conjecture; but 
what they did with their hands — the work of their arts and 
crafts — has survived; out of stone and marble blocks, with 
crude tools, but skillful hands and inspired souls, they made 
some beloved flower to blossom with such exquisite grace that 
it became a part of their country's history. 
Why have the lotus and the acanthus reigned supreme 
in architectural ornamentation since some sculptor dreamed 
them into inspiring forms of beauty and mathematical strength? 
Because the fitness and symmetry of their forms are especially 
fine in supporting and capping the columns used in imposing 
architecture; because lesser adaptations of these same units 
are equally pleasing in interior decoration. 
We should encourage architectural ornamentation which 
is national in expression in our imposing edifices. By them 
we may be immortalized. I believe this can be accomplished 
by adopting a national floral emblem for the United States — 
one that cheers us by her beauty, stimulates us by her character, 
and inspires a spirit of patriotic pride in our ornamental 
endeavor. To this end I present Columbia's Floral Gem, 
The Columbine. 
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