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Show SOUTH CACHE COURIER, HYRUM, UTAH iSI HAVE AW Engagement Rings OF FIVE tAILUOII Muit be good. Coat lest here than you think. Perfectly safe to order by ntii from EPEED HUGE AMERICAN ARMY TO FIRING LINE TO SAVE DAY, GENERAL WOODS PLEA. . BOYD PARK FOUNDED 1662 MAKERS OF JEWELRY 66 Every Other Consideration Should Be Laid Aside, in His Opinion, to Crowd Trained Armies Upon French Soil. Washington. America must have an army of 5,000,000 men, half of whom must be sent at once to the western battle front of Europe. This Is the message which Major General Leonard Wood brought from France to the military affairs committee of the senate and delivered to that committee In executive session Monday afternoon. It may result in action by the committee to speed upon legislation for raising the draft age and the nations otherwise increasing armies. The supreme need of the hour, General Wood told the committee, is more man power. The sooner an army of 2,500,000 men is landed in France by the United States, the sooner will come the end of the war. Every other consideration should be laid aside, in General Woods opinion, to crowd trained armies and their necessary supplies upon French soil. So overpowering is this need for men, General Wood said, that although there is no ordnance of American manufacture on the allies front, the British and French governments will be able to supply all the guns needed if America will only furnish the men to handle them. General Wood praised highly the national army and expressed the opinion that all of the men of this classification now in training camps should be dispatched to France immediately. He pronounced them as a whole a splendid body of soldiers, whose devotion to training had rendered them ready for active service. To take the places of these men, General Wood recommended immediate drafts from the eligible registrants and raising of the draft limit so that there may be more men to draw from until 5,000,000 are in the training camps. General Wood found no discouragement in the latest news of the German offensive. He said that the British had fully prepared for it, although they had not anticipated the drive would be so rapid or that they would be compelled to lose so large a number of guns. It was pointed out by General Wood that while the Germans are obliged to make their advances over rough, shell-tor- n roads, the British have the advantage of smooth territory over which to conduct their withdrawal. The roads behind the British lines may also be used by the retreating forces, but not by the enemy. General Wood was inclined to believe this advantage would aid the British more and more if the Germans continue to advance into the battle-swearea. He said he believed the British strategy would be to permit the Germans to penetrate as far as they can into this territory before beginning n counterthrust which may crush the enemy and drive them back. . General Woods view of the entire situation was highly optimistic and he expressed himself to the committee as being entirely satisfied of the success of the allies In stopping the present drive. He praised the morale of the British and French, who are In active contact with the enemy, and said he was much gratified to find the splendid spirit and courage of the Americans. pt THREE BILLION DOLLAR LOAN. McAdoo Announces Third Liberty Loan Will Be at 44 Per Cent Interest. third Liberty Washington. The will be for 6, to April open loan, and all oversubscriptions at 4 Vi per cent interest Bonds of the first loan, bearing 3 per cent Interest, and of the second loan at 4 per cent, may be converted into the new bonds, but those of the ..hird loan will not be convertible into any future issue. This announcement was made Monday by Secretary Mcthe Adoo with the comment that in France now happening great events must fire the soul of every American with a new determination to furnish all the dollars and all the material resources of America that are needed to put an end to the execrable atrocities of German militarism., Mexico Rejects Agreement. President Carranza Washington. has rejected the economic agreement drawn here by Ambassador Fletcher and the Mexican commissioner, Rafael Nieto, and has appointed three men te formulate a new proposal for presentation to the United States.' 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Its fairness and fragrance sung by the poet, its perfection of grace painted by the artist, the lily is the queen of spring blossoms chosen to symbolize the resurrection SALT I.AKR CITY. t?TAH ISEHDFORIFREEISAMPLES Without obllgntion to m, PERFECT EAR TAGS, and Price I pltiu Mod FREE Samples ot List. Name Address (WU-3-S0-- iiuHiiiiimimiuiiiiimiiiiiiiiiHuiiiimimiuniiiiiiiiiiNimiiiiniiiiunuiiiiiiiHUHHimunMiiiuimiiniS -- as it Is celebrated at Easter. Rose Bushes , Some years ago; the United States department of agriculture took note of this annual exodus of American funds, growing ' larger year by year, and since then it has been taking effectual measures to keep those millions at home. In the case of the Easter lily, the narcissus, the hyacinth and the tulip, with other spring blossoms used at Easter in immense quantities, the governments experiments have proved that all can be grown in this country, not only as well as abroad, but better, and the department scientists are now working out the problems of how and In exactly what sections of the country Easter lilies and other bulbous plants , and delicate flowering shrubs may be grown to best advantage. Of late years the Bermuda lily bulbs have given the United States florists trouble by reason of disease, which has caused great uncertainty as to result and general deterioration in the stock, a condition attributable, It is believed, to continuous planting in the same spot. On account of this difficulty with the lily from Bermuda this countrys trade has been transferred In large part to Japan, some of whose islands now supply the larger part of the American trade in Easter lilies. Easter lilies are shipped Into the larger cities of the East, such as New York, Boston and Philadelphia, during the months of July and August. Each of these cities receive hundreds of thousands of bulbs annually and distribute them to the trade, the larger florists taking from ten thousand to fifteen thousand bulbs a season. The price of the bulbs is in the neighborhood of a hundred dollars a thousand. The florist loses no time In planting his precious freight in a temperature where only the root will start. To obtain perfectly healthy American stock from which to make Its experiments in bulb culture in this country the department of agriculture some years ago planted the seed of the 1111 urn longlflorum, which is the botanical name of our familiar Easter lily. From this planting there resulted several pounds of seed, with which experiments were made in sections of Florida, Mississippi, the state of Washington, Texas and California. The result has been the production of stronger, healthier and handsomer Easter lilies than can be grown from Imported bulbs. Federal experimentation proves that climatic and soil conditions in southern California are such as to favor the production of the finest Enster lilies in the world. The department of agriculture Is also expending its efforts upon other plants, whose bulbs and roots are imported each year at a cost of nearly three million dollars to supply the Easter trade. These Include hyacinths, tulips and narcissi, with the decorative Six different kinds all hardy varieties of our own select Hon ; SPECIAL $3.00 Dozen POSTPAID When money accompanies order azaleas, rhododendrons, lilacs and oth- and araucarias, all of which can be er blossoms, which are brought to the produced here in commercial quantizenith of their glory at Eastertide. ties at a cost which will defy competiAfter a series of tests made by the tion, provided the transcontinental department of agriculture in various railways will encourage the develop states it has been found that tulips, ment of right rates, which will enable narcissi and hyacinths can best be dealers to use the prod produced in this country In certain ucts. There is one widely used Easter parts of the Pacific coast, these being northwest Washington and northwest flower, formerly Imported from HolCalifornia, and that there are areas in land, which has been thoroughly estab those states extensive enough to sup- llshed In this country, having been ply all the bulbs this country needs, brought to bloom in sufficient quantity with soil and climatic conditions even to supply the entire demand. This is more favorable for the culture of the freesia, prized by florists and peoDutch bulbs than the Haarlem bulb ple alike as a beautiful and fragrant district of Holland. Easter blossom. A talk with one of Said one of the scientists of the de- the horticultural experts of the depart partment of agriculture in a recent ment of agriculture resulted In some talk on the subject of bulb culture In Interesting facts concerning the feesla America for the home trade: One of The plant is a native of South the main deterrent factors with those he said, but had been com Africa, who contemplate entering the business grown in Holland up to mercially country, where it seems prob- - J ab0ut fifteen years ago, when it was able they can produce a better article that it could be produced here than the imported, is that of the ex- found more satisfactorily than it could be tensive hand labor as yet necessitated We have produced strains in bulb culture. The biggest job in imported. and and very much better finer. larger this connection is digging. As the our use than the original business expands, however, it is more fitted for It has been developed in Flor-Idthan likely that the American farm flower. to some extent In Georgia, but to Implement manufacturer will provide the extent in California, machinery to overcome this need, as wheregreatest cultivated is in great, it he has in the past overcome every othfields in Santa Ana, Santa er obstacle In farm operation. Of late it is reported that machinery is com- Barbara, Pasadena and San Gabriel, These towns are the center of our ing Into use even in Holland to a limfreesia, now thoroughly ited extent in bulb culture on account Americanized and supplying our entire of the scarcity of labor due to war trade. conditions. The original colors of the freesia Whether due to the war, or to a were white, known as Purity, and a knowledge of the tendency on the part rather lurid yellow, but about fifteen of the United States to keep its bulb a few plants of a pale years ago trade at home, a number of Holland species, known as Freesia and Belgium bulb and decorative plant were found in Natal, South growers have emigrated to the Pacific Africa. was a small, lilac pink It coast and have entered the business but scentless. This species flower, with a view to assisting in the Ameriseems to be extremely rare in nature can supply of Easter flowers. One and it was eagerly seized upon by grower of azaleas and araucarias who came from Ghent in Belgium is en- propagators In different parts of the world. , deavoring to establish this business in Italy, France, Holland, England and California. He made the statement to the effect that he found con- this country all procured specimens, ditions here superior to those In and by hybridizing and intercrossing the seedlings a great range of beautiBelgium. One great advantage, he ful colors have been produced. They finds. Is that plants bud here fully several weeks before they finish bud- run from cream to golden yellow on one hand, and to pale pink and light ding in Ghent, enabling them to be crimson on forced for the early American market. has been the other, and even a blue These varieties He states that America Imports an- are still developed. scarce, but they are known nually between two and three millions to the which has termed them of decorative plants. Including rhodo- rainbowtrade, freeslas. They exhale a deli, dendrons, azaleas, hollies, boxwoods cate apricot-likfragrance. 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The wind was cool and soon strengthened, and by night the air was1 sisurging violently through the gap, phoned from the cold summits down to the hot, humid valleys. Day after day one reawakened to the sense of tropical surroundings from a conviction of a northern autumn, with the wind full of swirling leaves and the fronds soughing with the same sad cadence as the needles of scented pines of the northland. William Beebe, In The Atlantic. helio-graphe- d half-hidde- Doctoring Heliotrope. The delicate heliotrope Is scarce and deunprofitable to the perfumer. He aroma tects In Its odor, however, the of vanlla eombined with the sharper scent of bitter almonds. Therefore, he adds to a tincture of vanlla a small quantity of the otto of bitter almonds and rose and orange flower essence, and thus easily makes extract of hello-ttoD- ' e. Palestine Vegetation. Some of the vegetation of Palestine: Is plainly listed in the Scriptures, thus Go forth unto the mount, and fetch olive branches, and pine branches and myrtle branches." Whis found In Nehe miflb 7:15. .1 . |
