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Show Art City Garden Group Sees New Iris Blooms The one-time lowly iris known in these parts as the "cemetery flags," because it bloomed so profusely in the vicinity of the pioneer burial grounds, has in the past few years gone modern, members of the Art City Garden Club learned in a tour Monday of this week. Inspecting the Wallace Iris Gardens in Orem, local enthusiasts enthu-siasts saw an iris of 25 years ago compared to the one which took top honors in 1958 and the still newer one of 1959 not named as yet. Mr. Wallace explained methods meth-ods of cultivating the now popular pop-ular iris and told how to propagate pro-pagate different varieties and colors. It has changed so much that it is almost a different flower but is still one of the hardiest of garden plants, he said. Approximately thirty people from Springville joined the tour which was under direction of Mrs. Barbara Haf en of the club program committee. The club which meets the first Monday of each month, welcomes new members interested inter-ested in making their homes and gardens more beautiful with plants and flowers. Next month the group will take a field trip and visit some of the outstanding gardens in Springville and vicinity under direction of William Gay. |