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Thousands of tenement dwellers only know it by the softness of the air, the rows of overcoats in the pawnshops. Manhattan makes up for this yearly by beating the equinox with a display of such gorgeous flowers as never grew under open sky. Last week some two hundred thousand people paid $1 apiece to shuffle through the 19th International Flower Show, an exhibit that filled for the first time four full floors of the Grand Central Palace...
There was much of the usual magnificence. John P. Morgan's gardener, James S. Kelly, showed a wide border of giant tulips against a background of flowering dogwood. Mrs. Payne Whitney's Henning Michelsen built a brick-walled garden, gay with wisteria and flowering bulbs. Marshall Field's George Henry Gillies filled enough buckets with rare roses to bring his employer six different first prizes. Greenhousemen built a 60-ft. bank of flowering orchids like a chorus girl's dream of heaven. A million dollars' worth of blossoms and not a bug or a worm...
...Horticultural Society gives free exhibitions in its rooms and in the American Museum of Natural History while the Florists' Club has established a fund to provide traveling fellowships to study plant diseases. The Garden Club of America, and the various other groups associated with the show, use the Flower Show to further three campaigns that are gaining political importance: 1) the removal of billboards from highways; 2) roadside planting; 3) the teaching of conservation and nature study in public schools...
Surveying of the Eliot House campus is now being carried on to prepare for the planting of shrubbery and a number of trees. It is expected that a flower bed will be laid alongside the brick terrace...
...What business has gained in America, politics has lost. The flower of American manhood does not go into politics but chooses industry instead. In England just the reverse is true, and very frequently English young men devote their lives unselfishly to improving the state of the nation...