Word: floras
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Prof. Farlow writes on the "Cryptogamic Flora of the White Mountains" in the last number of Appalachia...
...acre, in extent, situated just north of Dr. Gray's house not heretofore brought into cultivation as a part of the garden is being transformed into a miniature country of mountain, marsh, and plain, wherein, with the coming of spring, will be represented by growing plants the flora of northeastern America. Little effort will be made to imitate the beauties of nature in waterfalls, grottoes, etc, for such efforts are held to meet with little appreciation in this country. The new topography will be constructed simply in order to secure the varied conditions of shade, moisture and temperature...
...study of astronomy. It is known as the "Celestial Party." The floor of the hall which is to be the scene of the festivities is marked off into orbits, and numerous young ladies, handsomely and fancifully dressed to represent the planets, such as Ceres, Hygea, Astraca, Vesta, Ariadne, Flora and Terpsichore, revolve and rotate through these orbits around a young man dressed in flame-colored habiliments to represent the sun, who discourses to his satellites in poetry and prose...
...give before the Lowell Institute this year are as follows: "The Structure of the Plant;" "Relation of Plants to Water;" "Relations to the Soil;" "Relations of Air and Light;" "Relations to Air and Warmth;" "Most Favorable Conditions for Vegetable Activity;" "Conditions of Permanence, Means of Defence;" "Former Climates and Floras, and their Relations to Ours;" "The Floras of Extremes of Climate; The Frigid Zone, Deserts;" "The Flora of an Equitable Climate - The Equatorial Belt;" "The Flora of Variable Climates - The Temperate Zones;" "Acclimatization and Culture - The Production and Perpetuation of Varieties...
...party of Princeton students will visit Texas next summer to study the flora of that State. The Chicago Tribune prophesies a bad season, consequently, for the cow-boys...