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Show FROM TREE AND BUSH. Jay Gould loan to the bureau of floriculture of the world's fair a plant thirty-four feet hig-h. v In certain parts of India, coeoanut trees, once almost lifeless in appearance, appear-ance, have been made to yield abundantly abund-antly by placing1 salt at the roots. The largest and oldest chestnut tree in the world stands at the foot of Mount Etna. It is v& feet in circumference and is known to be at least -i.UOU years old. ! Is lC:i5, when the entire Dutch nation was crazy upon the subject of tulips, a single bulb was sold for f-J.-JOO. At such prices it would pay better to raise tulips than to own the most valuable gold ' mine in the world. |
