Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 275, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 November 1920 — Poppy as Memorial Flower. [ARTICLE]

Poppy as Memorial Flower.

The poppy seems fated to go down into history as the “memorial flowqr of the American Legion.” It was the common scarlet variety of that flower that grows so freely in wastg. places that won the regard of the men overseas, for it bloomed on, about them, and often the flower was the only beautiful thing the soldiers saw for days upon days. / ’The poppy is one of the oldest flowers in the world’s literature, and has been sung In verse and mentioned in holy books by all races. The Oriental poppies are of orange-crim-son with black’centers and large seed bags which burst and scatter the seed in all directions. Other famous varieties include the slender Iceland poppy, the yellow California variety and the big double flowers. None at them have any perfume, but depend upon their beauty of. form and color Jp attract and hoM the senses. * " . ! . .. —- — -