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Show BEAUTIFUL FLOWERS SURPRISE THOUSANDS AT SALTAIR Extensive scheme for landscape gardening being installed at famous resort with pleasing effect. Clow.- --sijrv "i , ' 5 b , r r P ' 1 V .Mil Will k v ' wt: -k ft 4:.1;. v ,j. ',4 Public Delight Expressed at Novel Plan Made for Beautification. Saltair, Utah's world-faious pleasure resort, is now open for the regular summer sum-mer season. The gates of the big pleasure ground swung back at 2:30 yesterday, when the first train arrived from town, and from that hour until an early hour this morning Saltair was thronged with one of the greatest crowds the resort re-sort has ever entertained" on any opening open-ing day. The management of Saltair sprung the .biggest surprise on the public yesterday yes-terday in the hjstory of the resort. Swaying gently in the afternoon and evening breezes were great palms attractively at-tractively arranged on the main floor of the pavilion. Thousands of plains and fern.s and other floral effects were found grouped artistically about the pavilion. Immediately in front of the entrance to the main pavilion was a beautiful disnlav of not.tp.l nlnnts anrl flnwprs and ferns, the majority of them being California varieties, although many were from other parts of the world. Great reinforced concrete bases support sup-port these floral decorations, and they give Saltair a more beautiful effect than has ever been obtained from any other decorative feature at the resort. Much Work Involved. General Manager Joseph Nelson has expended several thousand dollars in constructing and' installing these floral decorations at the resort, and M. F. Christopherson of the Salt Lake nursery nur-sery states that it is the first time, so far as is known locally, that landscape land-scape gardening on so extensive a scale lias been attempted under similar conditions. con-ditions. With no soil to work with at Saltair, Salt-air, and facing the necessity of build-v ing the great flower beds on the reinforced re-inforced concrete, some remarkably attractive at-tractive effects have been obtajyied. ' Something of the expense involved and work necessary to construct these floral beds may be gained from the fact that one carload of cinders was used in the work, seven carlads of soil, one carload of fertilizer, (50T) square rods of grass sod. a carload of palms and foliage and plants brought from California, a half-car of bedding plants, besides many oilier ferns and plants for the bo::es and receptacles for potted nln n f sen f tfrpd pvprvwlipro thron ah - out the big pavilion. The groat concrete beds were built first in constructing the floral display, then came a layer of cinders over tho cement and then the soil, into which. was placed the flowers, plants and ferns. Skaters Are Delighted. AIr. Christopherson states that one of the biggest problems to overcome was the finding of hardy varieties of plant and flowers which would stand climatic conditions at the lake. Tn locating tho floral designs great pains had to be taken to guard against the elements, and altogether it has been a big undertaking. under-taking. That the public felt yesterday, however, how-ever, that the expenditure was justified justi-fied in the beautiful aspect given the ; pavilion, was indicated by the many 1 comments heard on every hand. j The attendance was the largest in : many years. The opening of the .Salt- ! air Roller palace, in the second largest j building at the resort, attracted thou- j sands of pleasure seekers. The man- agement gave a big floor-warming dur- ! ing the afternoon and evening and is- ! sued skates and admission free to every- ' one who wanted to try out the beautiful maple floor. There can be no question ' that the Roller palaco at Saltair this year will be one of the most popular and best patronized features at the resort. re-sort. The building has been beautifully f res h men t booths and other attractive j features that should prove nonnlar with the crowd. The floor is the largest un- ! obstructed roller-skating floor in the j country, declare experts. ! |