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Show Half an Acre or Bloam. It must take neurit- half an acre of iss to cover lie- iiowers of the white hour-- r n-. .". at- -ry. 1 1 keeps two men busy all the time to take care of it, and the fmest of alikvidSof ikiwevs. from tic's to roses, are in bloom there. There are broad India rubber plants which are worth from fifty to one hundred hun-dred dollars apieee. and there are some iiowers which are absolutely wo-th their v ei-sht in trold. (in the night of a white '': 0 danner or reception the lei-.vers. and at one state dinner not long afro there was a iioral piece on the table whi.-h used eight thousand .vt rs in its making. At a dinner to the supremo court two thousand liowcis were used to make a temple of justice, and at the last diplomat ie reception re-ception the mantels cf the parlors were banked up with dowers, and at another time they worn covered with immense double tulips, rising out of banks of green. |