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Show Century Plant m Bloom The beautiful specimen of the "cen- J tury plant," Agave atrovirens. which has been a conspicuous object in the Succulent house at Kew gardens, London, Lon-don, England, for many years has been ; Invested witli a halo of romance, be- ; cause, unlike Peter Pan, who never j would mature, it has grown and j grown, outstripping lis neighbors and ! pushing its way far up ir.to the glass roof. Early in March of the present year :he plant whhh, by the way. as called the "century'' because formerly for-merly i; was supposed to flower only once in a hundred years showed signs of flowering, the upper leaves that were iormed being smaller and less spinous than ordinary leaves. The Inflorescence In-florescence or "pole" soon made its ap-l1! ap-l1! aranre. and grow ing rapidly, reached the roof m the course of three weeks. It then became necessary to move the plant into the open air, and this entailed en-tailed the removal of the greater part of the end of the bui'ding. The fiower spike has continued to elongate and is now some 18 feet high. The plant has exactly 60 leaves, the longest ot which is 7 feet 3 inches broid in the middle and 1P4 Inches at the base Pome of the lower leaves are 11 inches thick in the middle and 15 inches at the base, but only 4 feet to 5 feet In e;:grh |