Word: planted
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...building will have to be heated by steam from the Locker Building and in order to make the boiler capacity sufficient for both it will be necessary to overhaul the whole heating plant. The foundations of the cage are now in and the steel work will be up the first of January, with expectation of completing the building by the first of February, when practice will begin immediately...
...conservatories the orchids and pitcher plants are interesting. A large specimen of the cycas, or sago palm, is in bloom for the first time in several years. The night blooming cereus, the largest of its kind in the country, will begin to blossom in a few weeks. As many as sixty buds have been known to open and die on this plant in one night...
...Hospital, the Pepper Clinical Laboratory, a new dental hall soon to be ready for occupation, and the Flower Observatory which is now in active operation. In addition to buildings, a botanic garden, terrestrial and aquatic, has been established which has proved of great value in making practical demonstrations of plant life. Explorations under the direction of the Department of Archaeology and Paleontology have been made in South America, Florida, Yucatan, Babylonia, Honduras, Corea, Guatemala and Egypt, and a university museum to cost $300,000 is under...
...quarters for the managers. The ground floor on the Amsterdam avenue side will be occupied by six selected stores for the convenience of the students, including a druggist and barber, and there will also be a large bicycle room. The cellar will be a complete heat and electric light plant...
CHARLES GROSS.ENGINEERING EXCURSION.- The boiler plant at the factory of Messrs. Curtis Davis and Co., Broadway, Cambridgeport, will be inspected on Wednesday, the 18th inst...