Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 95, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 May 1917 — LILIES’ SCENT 8,000 FEET UP [ARTICLE]

LILIES’ SCENT 8,000 FEET UP

British Aviator Tells o 0 Immense Valley Filled With Flowers In East Africa. London.—-A British officer on duty with the air service in East Africa includes In one of his reports a graphic description of an Immense valley filled with the huge “Arum lilies,” over which he fled somewhere in the region of Zanzibar. As he passed over the valley he was 8,000 feet high, but the perfume of the lilies reached his nostrils for a long distance. By means of his glasses he observed that the lily flowers were “as large as elephant ears,” and that the- whole of the valley had been monopolized by the beautiful flowers. The luxuriance of the vegetation Was particularly remarkable. He learned later that the seent of the flowers was so overpowererlng in the valley that no native had ever dared to penetrate within its borders.