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Show A Holy Ghost riant. There has been on exhibition in front of a Chestnut street florist's window for some day past a very rare specimen of the dove flower, or, as it is more fa miliarly known, the "Holy Ghost plant" The florist claims that this specimen has been some 15 years coming com-ing to perfection, and he values it at $35. It is a small plant, about 10 inches high, and bears some eight or ten of the little white flowers whicn, from their remarkable resemblance to a dove with wings outstretched give to the plant its name. Tho flower isthe "Espirito Santo" of the Spaniards and was discovered in Panama in 1S2G. Philadelphia RocorO. |