New Words for the English Language: Brightening Up the Army: Motor Car Fashions By Chnwnb Martin The popularity of politicians is notoriously short-lived. The name which one year is on everybody's lips is forgotten the next. Outstanding achievement will ensure a longer measure of remembrance but there is, it would seem, a more certain way for the statesman to engrave his name permanently on the public consciousness, Thanks to the Gladstone bag the name of the great Victorian remained a household word long after his death, The present British Foreign Secretary, whatever his diplomatic and political successes, seems destined to be remembered because of his style in hats, The black, stiff-brimmed soft felt halt is already familiarly knówn as ihe "Anthony Eden." Will that name eventually join Gladstone, Boycott, Mackintosh and other dictionary immortals? In such a way does the Market, and a feature that generally proves particularly attractive is the trade in cut flowers.
The English public spends £15,000,- 000 on cut flowers each year, and the demand is growing. A large proportion of these flowers pass through "the Garden," The market annually handles more than 2,000,000 dozen carnations alone, and in the height of the season has sold over a quarter of a million roses in one day. Nearly all these flowers are home-grown.
Bulb-cultivation is a flourishing industry in Lincolnshire; the Scilly Isles are noted for spring flowers; countless roses bloom in the Lea Valley's and flowers of all varieties reach the London market from Devon, Cornwall and other counties. Farmers all.over England are finding it worth while to set aside a few acres for flowers, English language grow.
It has been estimated that there Aids to Recruiting. were ten miles of window boxes in London during {he Coronation The Secretary for War has been celebrations. The flowers in these
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inundated with. suggestions intended miniature gardens frequently proto help the recruiting efforts. One
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vided a more tasteful and harmonious Proposal, frequently urged is that a decoration than the inevitable flags, smarter, brighter, more "glamorous"
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