Word: plants
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Professor Goodale recounted his journey through India, Ceylon, Australia, New Zealand and Japan, giving views of the palms and all plant life. A grove of cocoanut palms is always a sign of a negro village in Ceylon. The growth and culture of tea is the principal occupation of the inhabitants of this island. Besides the cocoanut, cabbage and pinnate palms, the forests contain a curious growth called rain trees which drip with moisture. Vines called runners or climbers, covered with blossoms cling about the palms to a height of fifty feet. Next to the palm, the bamboo is the most...
...district of Gippslon the graceful ferns grow luxuriantly in picturesque forms and the trees reach a great height. Views were exhibited of the hot springs of New Zealand and of vegetation before and after the eruption, which covered the mountain districts with cinders, showing the complete destruction of all plant life. The lecture closed with a number of pictures of Japan, disclosing the effects of the disastrous earthquakes last fall...
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...ready for use by next October. It is not exactly known now where the power for the shop is to come from, as the city has withdrawn the permission it gave allowing the power to be brought across the street, and the gentlemen who offered money for a plant to light the yard and public buildings have also withdrawn their offer...
...subject of one was The Spy and the Sybil. It treated partly of Balda, who was the purest and whitest of the gods and Loci, who killed him. Balda had dreamed that his life was threatened, and the gods had made all things - the animals and the plants - promise not to harm him. But they had neglected a little plant which grew on the mountains, the mistletoe, which was so small that they thought it could do no harm. Loci heard of this, and possessing himself of a branch, repaired to an assemblage of the gods, when they were throwing...