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Show A Unique Fernery. In the main glass covered building in the Botanical garden, amid all the wealth of tropical plants, Mr. Smith, the superintendent of that department of the annex to the Agricultural department proper (which is kept up as a governmental govern-mental source for bouquets and bnuton-aires bnuton-aires for senators and members), has arranged ar-ranged a curved stone fdrnery that has a history, and it has also given him some trouble to explain its history, at tho expense ex-pense of his character for truthfulness. When the old senate chamber doors wero taken down the superintendent of the Botanical gardens had the stone arch above one of tho doors removed to his main conservatories.where it was placed contiguous to an artificial pool of water or fountain, and made a mantel for arborescent ar-borescent plants that for effective beauty surpasses nature herself. Unfortunately in a jocular moment lie told some one that the stone mantel was a relio from the ruins of Ilerculanroum. For months after wives and daughters of senators, members and others interested in the antiquaries bothered him almost unto death for its unique history. Withal its history, as having been the arch of a door of the American senate chamber under which walked Webster, Clay, Calhoun and a galaxy of manhood whose equal the Acropolis and Parthenon Parthe-non never encompassed, should make it sacred, as a simple fernery, as a part of American history. Washington Post, . |