Show t H- SALT LAKE SKETCHES ES Enjoys i ys Tree W Work orl Rufus T TK Th Johnson Inherited Love for Plants From Botanist Father Its Just j In lood My was a botanist t elore me and conferred con con at in our home horne in southern Utah wit with noted naturalists of America when was a small boy Thus does docs Ruf D. D J Johnson city shade tree ward warde u K explain hi his love for lor trees and plant Plan lie is the tM first and hade tree warden Salt Lake He took up thE that work unofficially In 1923 In 1 je e possibility of bringing about en m i systematic cultivation and preservation I of ot shade hade trees was ed by ordinance and Mr Johnson was named ss gs war war- den IL l lOf t Of For many rs tS I was a fisherman fisherman fisherman fisher- fisher man spending h of my spare time on streams andI andl J ikes ikes' es said Mr Johnson John John- son son- Fishing ft It what It used wed to be though so Ive I've c. c banged my hobby to collecting He explained t p are a type of ot flowering herb having hwing four tour perfect stamens stamens' nd d one sterile sin sta men Then he p f aUdlY displayed in inthe inthe the backyard of 1115 is home Fifth avenue a collect n containing 45 cies the des the largest he I claImed In ex cx- The hi bJ ebell is the Ute most common variety vol- vol I- I Mr Johnson said Besides the 45 J specimens s he has identified Mr J jh son has a dozen ozen t Rufus D. D Johnson or more growing in his yard which have not yet been class classi- classi tied fled He was honored recently by having one of these plants named for him by Dr Francis W W. Pennell Academy Academy Acad Acad- emy of Natural Sciences Philadelphia Philadel phia Pa who vho classified It Mr Johnson recently sent Dr Pennell Pennell Pen Pen- nell 70 specimens of southern Utah plant life which had been requested for tor the academy collection My ambition Indeed I have ha one and it is to see Salt Lake equipped with an where every specimen specimen sped sped- men of tree and shrub that will grow in this climate can be displayed In lit life e. e II Already he explained the shade tree commission is cultivating three or four new oaks brought from China and Japan two ash trees from Manchuria Man churia churla and many eastern America species |