Word: gardening
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...dining room will occupy an entire floor and will be so arranged that it can easily be turned into a general meeting room. On another floor will be dining rooms for the classes and for smaller parties. The other floors will be given up to bed rooms. A roof garden is one of the contemplated features...
President Eliot specifies the need of increased endowment for a new Dental School building, for providing a laboratory of comparative pathology at the Bussey Institute, for the running expenses of the Veterinary Hospital, and for the Herbarium and Botanic Garden. The Arnold Arboretum needs $1,000,000 for proper maintenance, and the Chemical Department could use $350,000 for a new building. The desirability of an immediate enlargement of Gore Hall is also amply pointed...
...consideration should also be paid to the fact that there is a garden spot around the Warren House, which is not to be found or easily created about the localities on Harvard square. Those who have visited the Oxford Union will not easily forget the attraction added to the club-house by this combination, even on a small scale. T. W. HIGGINSON...
Professor Goodale and Mr. D. Ames, of the Harvard Botanic Garden, has just returned from a visit to Cuba where they have been examining the subject of the "sending" of the sugar cane. They have had an exceptional opportunity for investigating the flowers of the plant in January, through the kindness of Mr. E. F. Atkins, proprietor of a large sugar estate at Soledad, near Cienfuegos. Most of the flowers, however, were found to be too immature, but it was possible to point out to three men employed by Mr. Atkins on his plantation, the proper method of conducting...
...Atkins has made a generous offer of certain very rich land on his estate for the prosecution of experiments in the cultivation of tropical plants, and it is probable that the directors of the Botanic Garden will avail themselves of it. There is now so much interest felt in the production of tropical foods, fruits and fibres, that a branch garden, under the direction of the Harvard Botanic Garden, might prove attractive and very useful. The whole subject is now receiving careful consideration and the most favored plan contemplates the establishment, in southern Cuba, of an experiment station which could...