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Show I MATTER OF FLOWERS I IS IMPORTANT ONE I If Present Plans Carry, City Will Be Wilderness 4 I of Blossoms. That the matter of providing flower nrdens .ill over tho city in vacant spaces, in anticipation of tho coniinp ; of tho Grand Army veterans hero next summer, will bo taken up immediately, appears evident from information given out recently by Colonel Sterrott, csccu-iivo csccu-iivo director of tho encampment, that n large consignment of flower seeds will ha received hero within a few days for distribution among people of tho city, H who are able to produce wiUi them the H proper results. H Advices from members of tho Utah delegation in congress Btato that the first consignment will contain tho fol-H fol-H 1 lowing varieties: Cypress, balsam, sal- H piglosis, nigella. poppy, candytnfr, cnl- H ondula. mignonolle, delphinium, cosmos, H antirrhinum, zinnias, vorbenas, nastur- H , tium, agoratium, csohschol7.ia and sweot HI -pens. I i Tho uses which can be found for HI flowers during tho encampment aro nu- Hl onerous, but two of these have come.to HI be customs through having been carried HI out at encampments for a number of H years. During tho parade of veterans. H which will tako place August 11, groups H , of school children stationed along the lino of march will throw flowers at the H I veterans as they pass in review. The H flowers will also" be used for decorativo H purposes about the city and many of H them will bo arranged iu growing so H ns to represent tho various badges and decorations of the G. A. It. and auxil-H auxil-H iarv organizations. H Proper distribution of the seeds will H "bo ono of tho subjects taken up at the H meeting of officers of tho women's citi-H citi-H --ens' committee at tho home of the H chairman, Mrs. W. II. James, 231 South H Third Easi, at 3 o'clock next Saturday H I afternoon. Arrangements have already J "boon made by the school children of the H I city to plant largo quantities of flowers H this spring; but thrre are many other H matters which can bo taken up by tho H J -women 's committce.''includiug the fur- H B ther distribution of the flower seeds H H -which aro now on the way here. |