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...Japan, across the world, people were no less grateful for spring, no less confused and bewildered than the Europeans whose bewildering civilization the Japanese were trying to fuse with their own. Last Saturday the sun came out between showers, and Japanese hurried purposefully about their beloved hanami, the flower-viewing...
Like other U.S. cities, Brooklyn in those days was plagued by bugs. The shy and decorative native birds did not like city life. As U.S. cities expanded, the birds retired to rural refuges, leaving the shade trees and flower gardens defenseless against insects. Officials of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences discussed the problem at length, finally sent to England for an urban bird: the English sparrow...
...show how Americans are made to "want something new," the U.S. businessmen explained their exhaustive market research and sales training methods, and displayed some visual sales aids (e.g., a pocket-sized refrigerator, colored seeds that show what color the flower will be). All of this market information is available, they told the Britons, if they only go after...
...mill, and separated from it by a piece of tumbling New England hillside, was a blacksmith shop. Once in a while a short man in an apron would come and hammer resonantly on the anvil; then he would go back across the hall to continue his conversation with the flower girl. On the lawn in front of the shop, a Radcliffe freshman was selling horse shoes for the benefit of the Children's Hospital...
...organ playing something out of "Finlaudia," and found ourselves in the midst of booths and displays for an incredible number of organizations, herbaceous or otherwise. Besides the purveyors of gardening supplies, who were selling everything from tractors to Hokinsonesque sun hats, there were representatives from the New England Wild Flower Preservation Society, the Blood Drive, the American Gourd Society, a company selling aluminum window frames, and the Encyclopedia Britannica. And it being St. Patrick's day, we were pleased to see that someone had included a model of an Irish Thatched Cottage...