Ogden Daily Standard | 1915-08-04 | Page 2 | The Silver Sword

THE SILVER SWORD. The rarest plant In the world grows in Hawaii, a fact which Is unknown to all but very few of the thousands of tourists annually visiting the paradise para-dise of the Pacific. It is tho silver sword. Its very name is odd and unusual, at once arousing tho curiosity ai:d the interest of the stranger who chances to hear it. It is a cactus-like growth, the long, silky gray leaves of which give It its peculiar name. The reason for Its rarity is that It is found only on the most Inaccessible slopes of tne oIcanoes of this group of islands. From the earliest times It has been appreciated and greatly admired by the native Hawailans, who called It "ahlnahina" (gray-headed), because they had never before the coming of I tho white man seen silver and there- I foie could not apply to the plant the I cognomen which so" well describes It I All who have found it prize it mott I jealously than do Alpine cllniberi J treasure the edelweiss. It is a far more beautiful thlug and more dlffl ' cult to obtain than the famous flower of Switzerland. San Francisco Chro icle.