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Among the latest acquisitions are some large tree ferns, which stand from six to fifteen feet high. A large Cycas palm is now at that stage when both old and new leaves and the fruit are shown. A tall bamboo tree overtops all the rest of the plants. One fern which was brought from Australia some years ago now measures over four feet in diameter at the base. Among the smaller ferns are very beautiful specimens of the golden and the silver ferns and many varieties of the maiden hair fern...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Botanical Garden. | 5/13/1896 | See Source »

...ears, and listen to the sweetest voices of all time? More than that, it annihilates time and space for us; it revives for us without a miracle the Age of Wonder, endowing us with the shoes of swiftness and the cap of darkness, so that we walk invisible like fern-seed, and witness unharmed the plague at Athens or Florence or London; accompany Caesar on his marches, or look in on Catiline in council with his fellow conspirators, or Guy Fawkes in the cellar of St. Stephen's. We often hear of people who will descend to any servility, submit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 3/30/1894 | See Source »

Hollis Street Theatre-Fern Cliff...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Amusements. | 2/15/1890 | See Source »

Hollis Street Theatre-Fern Cliff...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Amusements. | 2/14/1890 | See Source »

Hollis Street Theatre.- Fern Cliff...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Amusements. | 2/13/1890 | See Source »

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