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Flowers. FLOWERS. The only flowers mentioned by name in the Book of Mormon are lilies.   FRUIT. The fruits mentioned in the Book of Mormon are grapes and olives.   GAD. A city burned with its inhabitants, at the time of the great convulsions that attended the crucifixion of the Savior. These people were extremely wicked, casting out and stoning and slaying the prophets who reproved them for their abominations. Indeed, there were none righteous left among them, so the Lord sent down fire from heaven and destroyed them, that their crimes might be hid from His face; and that the blood of the saints might no longer cry to Him from the ground against them. Gad is nowhere mentioned except in connection with its destruction, (III Nephi, 9:10, 11).   GADIANDI. A city which, with all its vile inhabitants, who had persecuted and slain the prophets and people of God, was sunken deep in the earth at the time of the Messiah's crucifixion, and the surface of the land so changed that valleys and hills took its place. This calamity befell them, to use the words of the Savior “to hide their wickedness and abominations from before my face, that the blood of the prophets and the saints should not come up any more unto me against them.” (III Nephi, 9:8.) This is the only mention that is made of Gadiandi in the Book of Mormon; and consequently nothing is known of its situation.  <section end="Gadiandi" /> <section begin="Gadianton" />GADIANTON. A Nephite apostate; the founder and first leader of the robber bands that bore his name. He is first mentioned in connection with the attempt by Kishkumen to kill Helaman, the Chief Judge, (B. C. 50). At that time, Gadianton had organized his band, and bound its members together by the most horrible and blasphemous oaths and covenants, to stand by and protect each other in all their treasons, villainies, and <section end="Gadianton" />