Word: planted
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...called for a second hearing. The hearing was granted, and both parties were represented by counsels. The decision was a very close one, the vote standing 5 to 4 in favor of the Electric Light Company. As the possibility of having all the buildings lighted by one central plant is thus for the present destroyed, and as it would require six separate plants to do all the lighting without running wires across the streets, the matter is still unsettled...
...ores of the precious metals, a system of weights has been introduced, by which the weight of the silver or gold globule obtained shows at once, without calculation, the number of Troy ounces in a ton of ore. To furnish necessary facilities for practical work a very complete plant has been provided...
...tropical greenhouses at the Harvard Botanic Garden there is a rare variety of the orchid family now in bloom. The magnificent plant, whose technical name is angraecum sequipedale, is a native of Madagascar where it is found growing upon large trees. In Madagascar it usually has a stem about four feet high; its leaves are a glossy green and are about a foot long. The blossom is nearly six inches in diameter, is very white, and has a spur from a foot to a foot and a half in length. It fragrance is very powerful and is peculiarly...
...which they are to be placed, or as the brick and stone of the great building which is to hold them. Moreover, we are assured that they are in all respects botanically accurate and therefore can be well high as implicitly relied upon by students as can the living plants themselves. The artists in every case make a careful botanical study of the living plant before beginning the model, and all parts of the latter are made with its living counterpart beside it. All classes of flowers are to be represented, from the most gorgeous and bizerre of Orchids...
CHAS. L. MIX, '90, 57 College House.The largest and best summer resort paper published is offered for sale, as the editor desires to go to Europe to live. Society paper: profitable: plant complete. Terms easy. Address 2t] "EDITOR," care Leavitt and Peirce...