El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-10-07
WILD FLOWER DAY
At EXPOSITION
Pressed Flowers to Be Elk
hibited; Something About
Local Wild Posies.

LUIGI W llu 7 OSlSS.
Wild flower day At the exposition
viii be next sunday. the 18th. when there
will be some sort OF awards for the
best collection of wild flowers from
-, about Fl Paso or the neiEhborhood,
which includes the valley no and down
and the mountain top at CIoudcroft
Although there are today hundreds
of wild flowers blooming purple and
gold and white and pink and the com
mittee wants exhibits or collections OF
these, they have decided 10 accept also
the dried or pressed herbarium speci-
mems TO more fully represent the Won
der flora of the southwest. Pressed
specimens must be mounted on heavy
srhite paper on sheets 1S inches by L.
and as far as possible must he named.
although the committee realizes that
naming all the flowers is difficult and
sometimes impossible for any but pro-
Nessional botanists.
Picture OF Flowers
The committee hopes that many or
the children viii be interested i'm this
exhibit and will. # possible, exhibit
collections.
IN the late afternoon there will be
= series OF photographs Of wild flowers
& rom Fl Paso. the Sierra Nadres and 81
Paso thrown on the screen and named
= Many people will off hsndedly assert
rhat there are no wild flowers in Fl
Paso and then with somewhat con-
temptuuus second thought. will say, oh
j. YOU call yuccas and cactus and
ZreaseWood wild flowers as though
those brave and brilliant and highly
ornamental poSies were not as good as
any meek violet or unwinking daisy
Ts-Hr =saHs
that ever a poet sang OF painter brushed
Or musician remembered into tune
Benuty and Song
u Is the pets and painters and rnu-
SCANS fault the Fl PasO wild flowers
are not known and loved by their own
folks and sung about and painted
around the world II Is the poet paint
er and musician who create beauty 10y
seeing il and calling attention 10 il and
making Il artculate, visibly and au-
oibly- There is no use admiring any
thing unless you can say so. somehow
II enough artists had strayed across
the sands and noticed the candles OF
Ahe wolf in the spring, fiaring scarlet
Sver the gray ridges and against a blue
sky or the white candles OF the Yucca
held W lighted in -fe summer in the
sra nd. ritual Of the seasons OF the noun
rains and canyons or had caught the
sheen OF the silks and satins Of scarlet
9-id gold and magenta cacti- or had
been.h by the sweet fragrance of the
Little lavender Terbena. which blows
cloud Of color and sweetness across
ones path. even when one is in an au-
romobile going 20 miles or so an hour
ana una bic to see poSies as poets See
them; any human with time 10 dream
ever lOirered across the hills and up the
canyons and alonE the mesas and with
any kind of a voice had perpetuated il
all on canvas or in verse. our skies and
NuEEed rocks and wild flowers would be
celebrated from China TO Peru. and Is
courts OF Europe. Asia and Africa would
long &c see such beauty.
Seine Local Beauties
The Yucca and the VOLTS candle and
the brilliant cactus are wild flowers
besides. We have sand FerDeuas IN law .
endeF clouds and there is a lavender nj
discus nearly as big as a tulip and
ElOtched in the center with maroon. a
hopper colOred wild mallow blooms i'm
every vacant lot. q delicate. fine eN-
qUisite little cousin. copper mallOW out
side OF the city. blossoms so glowingly
that only flaming camp fires or the last
biz Of scarlet copper sunset cloud equals
its color An orange lowered velvet
leaved tropical arbutelon ~ the can
7ous- dainty. pink white fra grant
eupatOrium with holly leaves and
crane flowers caught in the rocks. four
oclOcks without number. many spread
ike brilliant lace. apache plumes. like
t.ttle white roses; California peoples.
nc gold Of dozens Of varieties Of COM
positae. a white furry larkspur, grease
W God with dark shadows under the
branches like the shadows under the
dwarf pines the Japanese make SO
much Of asters. honey sweet and pur-
Ipie as amethHsts. fringed cleaomes and
level bright members of the papillion-
acea or butterfly like Towering plants
like the pea blossoms. a little akin TO
the olives. with bright. clear. amber
yellow flowers and fairy balloon seed
PODS and hosts Of other big and little
All the flowers are little difficult 10
find and little difficult 10 trace.
Most people take offence at flowers
" hose names they do not know and
these flowers have difficult horribly
scientific names. That is heir misfor-
tune not their fault The little chill
dren ought to name the FL Paso wild
flowers and set them within the circle
G ordinary acquaintance and ordinary
loving
Familiar Wild Flowers.
The names OF wild flowers that every
one knows are love names. given them
when the world was Younger and dared
name the pOsies as IL pleased-heart's
ease. love in the mist old man, butter
cup. days eye. suncups. ladies' smocks.
violets harehcn wall flower. Adam
and Eve Jack IN the Pulpit. May APP
pies bloodroot. Michelmas daisies.
golden rod. bee aster brook mint-the
very names are poetry
The wild flowers "a bout Fl PasO are
as beautiful ana as interesting-or
more SO than these. and just as love
able. but they do need attention and
affection and love names