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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 8529, 1 April 1891, Page 3

It appears that the State Floral Society has at length adopted a State flower for California. It is tho Californian poppy (Eschscholtzia Californica). The announcement of such adoption has been approved by the public press. The Rural Press remarks thus .—" This flower of the whole year and the whole State, and in its typical species only of the State, is by common consent crowned as the queen flower of California." In an essay on the subject by Miss Pratt occurs the following :—" One has only to watch the children coming home from a trip to the country to see which flower, they love best. It is one of their greatest delights to pick & whole armful, and; the quantities the florists gather and bring to the city show that the older people fully appreciate their choice. No other California wild flower is so widely known or so highly prized as this; and surely no other has been painted so many times. Both flower and foliage are well adapted for carving or decorating our buildings or banners, arid who cau describe its colour All tho golden emblems of the State combined seem to be needed to give this wonderfully glistening, brilliant, intense colouring, which after all can never be represented, and, like so many other wonders, people must come here and see to fully appreciate." ,

Cadbory's Cocoa.—" A Cocoa of the highest degree of Purity and Nutritive value."— Health.