Word: ferns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sloan comes out "forcibly" against the asparagus fern, whose "color, texture and scale are all bad." White roses, says she, "are never wholly successful. Even the best fade very rapidly, almost before they open." The button chrysanthemum she finds one of the few small flowers which look well on the Lord's table. "Once we used button chrysanthemums in yellow and deep bronze with dark red oak leaves at the base. Very Spanish, when seen at close range; but the colors were massed in such a way that from a distance they looked like two lovely flames...
...which he as Assistant Secretary of the Navy helped develop), a review of troops at the largest U. S. Army post (Schofield Barracks: 30,000 men). For the asking they would gladly take him fishing for the great a'u (swordfish) in Kona waters, drive him through Hawaii's fern forests, show him sugar-cane fields, pineapple plantations, the leper colony, crown him with leis, feed him poi (taro root paste), or entertain him at a native feast (luau) with straw-skirt ballet...
...gift to the Gray Herbarium, called the Elizabeth Stone Fund, comes as a supplement to an endowment of $100,000 made by Mr. Bemis last year. It will be used in forwarding the work being done in collecting specimens of flowering plants, ferns, and fern-allies at the Herbarium under the direction of Benjamin L. Robinson '87, Asa Gray Professor of Systematic Botany and curator of the Herbarium...
...Gray Herbarium is situated in the Botanic Garden of Harvard University on Garden Street, Cambridge. It includes a collection of more than 800,000 sheets of mounted specimens representing the flowering plants, ferus and fern-allies from all parts of the world. The original collection was founded by the late Asa Gray and given by him to the University...
...Pink roses, crape myrtle and maidenhair fern decorated the State dining room table when President Hoover had Dr. Harmodio Arias, President-elect of Panama, in to luncheon. ¶ Aug. 11, one day after his 58th birthday, was set for President Hoover's speech accepting renomination. ¶ President Hoover transferred the Department of Commerce's Radio Division (established in 1911) to the Federal Radio Commission. Affected were 190 employes, an annual expenditure...