SASKATOON (Staff) – There should be a pink glow to next summer’s centennial meeting of the Federated Women’s Institutes of Canada. The room should be filled with bouquets of pink roses that are being grown to mark the movement’s 100th birthday.
FWIC asked an Ontario nursery to breed the Women’s Institute rose and 200 WI members are now growing the special rose in preparation for the June 1997 event when they will provide the flowers to decorate the Hamilton, Ont. meeting.
Peggy Knap, the Canadian representative to the WI’s international body, said the WI’s main request was that the breed of rose be hardy across Canada. The nursery will be selling the roses to the public next year.
