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Show To Celebrate Virgil's Birth Among the preparations being made at Mantua, Italy, to celebrate the two thousandth anniversary of Virgil's birth is the development of a 5-acre tract,, which is to be planted with more than 200 trees and plants mentioned in his poems. The space will be made to appear ns much as possible like a Roman garden of the first century before Christ. As far back as the Napoleonic wars a sim- ' ilar project was planned, but lack of funds prevented Its completion. Th Yergilian wood will be dedicated In October. |