When Brigham Young said, “we will make the desert blossom like a rose,” many pioneers took his words literally, including Elizabeth Thomas Morse and her husband Francis Young Morse. They were volunteers for the original Cotton Mission in Southern Utah, and as soon as they settled on their city lot in St. George, they began planning a home and surrounding their home with a garden of fruits and vegetables, and also of roses and other flower...
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