5 SEPTEMBER 1931, Page 13

THE IMPORTANCE OF FLOWERS.

The part that flowers play in the life of the community was strikingly exhibited recently at Southport, when 100,000 people visited the flower show, which is beyond question the greatest in the world. A number of journalists from European papers came to report ; and there is no doubt at all that the municipality as such owes its astonishing success chiefly to flowers. Mr. Clark, the municipal gardener, has as much right to a statue as one of the founders of the prosperity of the town as any factory magnate, and his Herbaceous Border will certainly outlive many manufactories and prove a more solid basis for extending the population within reach of it * * * *