Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 August 1893 — Floral Emblems. [ARTICLE]

Floral Emblems.

An ingenious person has been pondering the subject of floral badges, and makes these suggestions, to which we add others of our own to carry out the idea. For the First Lord of the Admiralty, docks; for a doctor, cyclamen and self-heal; for an oculist, eyebright and iris; for a tailor, Dutchman’s breeches; for a broker, stocks and bull-rush; for a philosopher, sage; for a cook, butter-and-eggs; for a land agent, groundsel; for a butcher, lambkill; for a policeman, beet; for a shepherd, phlox; for a musician, thyme; for an acrobat, capers; for a Jockey, speedwell; for a woodcutter, hardtack; for a newspaper humorist, chestnut; for a shoemaker, lady’sslipper; for an honest man, lilac; and for a rogue, hemp.