Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-02-25
SUFFRAG|STS TO
MAKE STATE BLOOM
Plan to Have 1t Covered With
Yellow Flowers This Summer
as a Campaign Move
IDEA is TAKING WELL, TOO
Scheme Being Boosted by the
State Headquarters in This City
and Elsewhere

The State of Pennsylvania is to be
converted into huge yellow flower
garden by the suffragists this summer.
From Lake Erie to the Delaware
river, the whole State will blossom
with the suffrage colors. Not a town
or hamlet is to be overlooked. Every
where one turns. the eve will be
greeted with yellow blooms. In the
suburban towns and the residential
sections of the larger cities every suff-
ragist yard will boast a suffrage gar
tions. window boxes will help to carry
out the suffrage color scheme.
Behind this picturesque plan to let
the people of Pennsylvania know that
woman suffrage is the real and COM
pelling issue this year is story of the
kind that O. Henry would have liked
to write-the story of a little woman
who wanted to make big contribution
to the cause, and who made it, al
though she never realized how big
1t really was.
II can't do much,' she said. when
she made her offer to the State asso-
citation last December, Il haven't got
the money. But I'm going to plant my
whole garden with yellow flowers this
Spring. and I'm going to get my neigh
borS to do the same, so that every one
in our little town will see the suff-
rage colors and know that our cam
humble offering. To-day, however, the
That was her contribution to the
State campaign fund-the idea of a
suffrage garden. She died a few weeks
later before either she or anyone else
grasped the full beauty or the Won
derful possibilities that existed in her
humble offering. To-day, however, the
magnitude of her gift is appreciated,
and early in May thousands of yellow
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in all parts of the State, and with each
seed that is dropped will be a tender
thought of the woman who contributed
the idea that is to make the whole
State beautiful.
So that the suffrage project may be
carried out to the fullest the Penn
sylvania Woman Suffrage Association
has arranged with a master scotsman
to supply boxes of seeds that will grow
six of the prettiest varieties of yellow
flowers. These flowers have been Sc
lected with view TO having the period
of bloom extend from July though
November so that the fragrant bios
SONS may be an inspiration during the
intensive part of the campaign.
In selecting the flowers, their SYM
bolic value has also been taken into
consideration, with the result that
taken in sequence. the six blossoms
chosen tell the story of a suffrage cam
paign that is scheduled to close in a
jubilee of triumph. Beginning with
Golden Dawn" (Eschscholtzia), a
yellow poppy-like flower that blooms
from July until frost, the flowers
chosen symbolic Advance" Persist
ence," Conquest" Victory and
Jubilee"
Calliopss, the Advance" en-
blem. has golden yellow blossoms
that bloom in abundance all summer
-#a fAP tha fFy- l,y-1
movement of Woman Suffrage.
Calendula, signifying Persistence"
is vigorous plant that is literally COW
cred with bright yellow double flowers
from early summer until late autumn.
They are guaranteed to bloom with
all the persistence of a loyal suffrage
worker.
Antirrhinum, which has been selected
as the Conquest emblem, is a plant
that produces long graceful spikes of
pure yellow flowers that bloom pro-
fusely from July unit 1.-The middle of
November. In the language of the Off
cial scotsman. who is also a good suff-
ragist, these flower spikes stand erect
like loyal legions, signifying that the
conquest for Justice is on"
Zinnia, the Victory flower, is al
most too well known to warrant de-
scription. The blossoms, borne on
long stems, are of gigantic size, with
full double petals of richest golden
yellow-unrivaled in their brightness
and truly emblematic of victory.
For their Jubilee" the Keystone
suffragists have selected the yellow
chrysanthemum and each and every
garden will contain at least one bed of
them. so that every suffragist will be
provided with a sheaf of them for the
election night celebration.
It is less than a week since the first
official notice of the suffrage garden
idea was quickly sent out by the State
Association to its various locals, but so
instantaneous has been the response
form all parts of the State that the
success of the plan is assured