OCR Text |
Show IT UEAUl a JiriJo DLATH. A CLSTClty I LAST IN BROOKLYN -OUT TO BLOOM AI.D DIE. A largo spcclmta of tlio Amtrlcan alee or ca.nturj jiLint has reccutljr attracted many vbitors to Coudcu'o irrtcn lioue, near Urccnwood cemetery. ceme-tery. A few weeks ago a Dowering tlicot beiriu to grow from tlio jilant, and It lias now nadicd a stage of dcTLlujx.mt.ut Uiat makes it an object ob-ject of iuti rat to the lovers of curi-L-sjitlesin horticulture. Aconitrof tlio greenery having a little ton er has been given up to tho iilant, which already reaches far above evirj grr. Id,; thing In the t-ttab-IMiment, and olds fair to require tlio rLinoval of the roof of Its presto pres-to habitation. Tho aloe nevtr blooms in tlm climate except when great pains as to temperature are taken Willi It. The sivcimtn at Condon's is surrounded sur-rounded by rta atmosphere that I never allotted to grow colder titan 70 degrees FahrenhciL If all goes well with tho pUut the flowering shoot a ill ceaHi to grow about June 1, and then it will tend forth unill bia.Kxon Hincn a nunureel (lowers may appear. ITitj ill Le of a delicate, deli-cate, piukHi white, aud different in fcha'e from tuything eke known In the flowery kingdom. The shoot Is Uirve Indies thick, fificcn fettln heihtand as straight is .t tugnr cane. In warm weathtr itgrowsabouttttoinehc8aday. It will probably attain a height of thirty feet. 1'lant aud stocK arc of a deep grveu and are j ct w Ithout ornarucntation. The beauty Is yet lo conic. The plant' career Is about to tnd, for death comes after it bloom.". I Is misIon Itrformedjlife eeacs. and the hundreds who admired its lau-tiful lau-tiful pctab can k-c onlva dead and witliercd stalk. Aca i'orL J"rcu. they lived through), and both In his air and manner, which had a sort of formal and slightly precisian dignity, aud In the characterof his mind, he preserved marks of his French origin. There was a marked strain of French doctrinalrtism about him; a doctrinaire-Ism very different differ-ent from the lets polished and less theoretic, more obtrusively positive though not more essentially dogmatic, dogma-tic, doctrinalre'sm of England. Though his highest and last lost was that of permanent under secretary secre-tary for India (he retired from it in lbSJj his most important work was done at the Board of Trade, where he exercised, from ISaT to 1S7J, a powerful Influence on tho policy and lcghUtlve proposals of successive succes-sive ministers. Next to Cobden, no ouo had to muih to do with putting into shape the great rommercial treaty with Franco of 1S60. He was a strenuous advocate of free trade, which did net prevent him from becoming be-coming a zealous bl-metalist, and his writings on tLcse and other economic topics were alwajs distinguished dis-tinguished by lucidity of statement and closeness of argument. In the life of a famous building, as in tho life of a man, there are crises and turning-points whlclf awaken memories and suggest Instruct In-struct lu contrasts. The social plillosor her need do no more titan record the fact that Lausdowne House, that ark and citadel of exclusive ex-clusive U'higgery, has been bought by Mr. Charles Wilsou.shlp-builder, aud SL P. for West UuIL The SjxaLcr. |