Word: flowers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Forced growth for hothouse flowers and vegetables by the use of electric light during the absence of the sun, may soon be a regular procedure with large florists and nurseries. The Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Co. and the Department of Agriculture of Columbia University, Prof. Hugh Findley in charge, learned how to do it in six weeks of experiments at the Peter Henderson greenhouses, Baldwin, L. I. The lights were turned on at 9 o'clock every night; turned off at 2 in the morning, giving five hours of light additional to the normal sunshine. Between time, the plants...
Gene Stratton Porter-Bungalow, sun parlor, well-planned kitchen, laundry and nursery, flower boxes, trees...
...program is as follows: Bouree Bach Elegie from Trio in D minor Arensky Oriental, Roses Ivanovici-Tobani Serenade Victor Herbert Bambalina from "Wild Flower" Song of India Rimsky-Korsakoff Cello Solo by E. T. Payson '26 Dreamy Melody Waltz Prelude in C Sharp Minor Rachmaninoff
...many women, he had never known one like her and that, though he still failed to comprehend her entirely, to him she had and always would have the power of suggesting his youth and the great days and things much lovelier than herself, "as the perfume of a single flower may call up the whole sweetness of Spring...
This last Monet gives a corner of a flower garden with the sunset showing through the Summer leaves. Its breathless passion of color draws all eyes to it. Monet is master without contemporary peer. Can he be blind...