Deseret Evening News | 1898-06-04 | Page 4 | Scarcity of Flowers

SCARCITY tit ii nvi 1t There was an cxt lInordhlar scarcity of flowers In this city on Decoration Day this Year One florist reports that aa many ns 230 people came to him that day whom lie was obliged to turn away without furnishing one of them 0 single flower anti It Is I reported that no high is five dollars per dozen was otrrwl for roses tout In aln The causes cited for this remarkable condition are the cold backward spring whIch prevented the blooming of flow era its early tie usual and the en Ihulatlo > Patriotism of the people aroused by the war which Impelled them to observe tho holiday with more than common display and thus created I flowers cre-ated an oXlroedllor demand for