Show Garden Club Urges Beautification of Cedar City ity By Hannah D. D Foster The Garden Club of or Cedar City is the outgrowth of the desire on the part of some of our women to grow flowers shrubbery and lawns making places of or beauty where barren ground and rocks and weeds were scrambling for space Years of or Veil toll and effort and unwise unwise unwise un un- wise buying have taught us that there are many flowers and shrubs which would grow better If we have ave a knowledge of climate and conditions under which they thrive To often we buy seeds and plants that will not survive our climate The real purpose of or the club Isto Isto is isto to acquaint women who are Interested interested interested Inter inter- ested in making their surroundings beautiful with the kinds of shrubs and annuals to plant so that flowers will wW be blooming when snow leaves in the early spring and until un it returns again In late autumn au au- This opportunity to join the he Garden Club Is open to all women who desire to do so 80 In the past we have had lectures on the cultivation of various plants flowers and shrubs and also treatments treatments treatments treat treat- ments for control of the different types of insects that infest them and the proper method of or pruning and planting The club has a sincere desire to tb help make our city more beautiful and it ft is willing to cooperate with other civic clubs and organizations to promote the Interest and support support support sup sup- port of our citizens in helping to clean dean up and beautify every evell ugly and unsightly space by planting lawn on the bare stretches of or ground and growing flowers floweD where the weeds once grew You only need to walk down the street to be Impressed with the crying need there Is for such Improvement As a special project for the past put three twee years the club has been trying tryIng try- try Ing trig to add beauty to the cemetery They spent several days cleaning up and planting seeds and bulb and they also purchased some samo iron benches and placed there for the public With pride we wo boast boas that the Utah Pioneers made the desert blossom as the rose The pioneers found a clean dean place and not a junk heap by the road side filled with tin cans rags bones and old wrecked automobiles ugliness which no good citizen should tolerate but should enlist the service and support support support sup sup- port of all In the removal of or such unsightly scenery especially near the highway on the approach into our city Most of or us make an effort to clean up and beautify our front yar yards both home and place of or business but woe be unto the back backyard yard Why not make the back a place of beauty by having a pretty green lawn a rock garden and a garden seat where there is rest and quiet We hope that every home every reet and alley will be made clean and neat this y year r and every year until Utah celebrates its Centennial in 1917 1947 so that people who come into our midst may give us a righteous judgment ra rather thu than one of or criticism We will be judged by what we have to offer Lets Let's have lilacs honeysuckles These are all hardy shrubs Have roses and intermixed with annuals and let the gateway to scenic Utah be known as the city of be beautiful surroundings A garden of beauty and a pleasant place to live GARDEN CLUB |