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Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 17633, 9 December 1922, Page 18

A Canadian correspondent writes: — The wonder of tourists in the past year has been the marvellous display of Iceland poppies at Banff and Lake Louise. These poppies, planted by Princess Louise at Lake Louis about 10 years ago, now cover acres at Lake Louise and large areas at Banff. Perennials, they live all winter, and blossom continually from early in May until October. The faster one plucks them, to quote an old Irish song, the faster they grow. At Banff they are the first green things to show above the aoil, and the gardener at the Banff Springs Hotel has often found a dozen wild deer feeding upon the early shoots. The deer eat the first growth, but the second growth is too bitter for them. Besides, by that time other green yellow ana wiite poppies are left unmolested, to bloom all through the summer and well into the fall