Show many wonders in botanical garden ASHINGTON washington ins his a bot botanical anicil garden of plant valuables bleb and W plant it occupies a pitch of laud land en entirely tirel inadequate the plant experts say on Penn shonia avenue almost directly in front of the capital Represent representative atiNe jimes L laden of texas has introduced a bill tor for tile the re 1 juita 1 in awal onal ot of the garden to rok noel creek ti 11 ln pirk and the transfer of its control to the department of oe agriculture visitors to washington alii always ills ire ES 0 Is it interested in the botanical garden cur curiosities josities und arid in onders too mike in ike the place of sharp interest not onia to hot but to n tho the ordeal tree will interest students tu dents of savage juris prudence to whom hom superintendent hess mil show the little nuts growing on the tree and explain that tile the hot tanto ts made ferons accused of crime eat them as a test of their innocence As the nuts are poison ind the accused usually died the trial it will be seen was exceedingly simple bridal couples usually are shown shonn n the mother in law lam plant so named it is slid because if a person breaks oft off a leit leif and touches it to the tongue speech is lost tor for nine das oni of tile the emp employees loees once experimented b stuff ing a leaf in his bis mouth whereupon the tongue so swelled thit that it protruded from the mouth and closed it 1 I 1 I he man i was as rushed to a hospital but tile the plant made good its dread reputation b keeping beeping him ill tor for the appointed nine dis one of the greatest curiosities in the greit great greenhouse is a creeping fig a little plant knitli ith leaves leave about the sibe of a dime and a stem no I 1 larger than one s little finger this stem coming up out of a bed beside a huge granite block upon indich rests i i large tub of earth forced its MB a under the block lifting several hundred pounds to make room for itself and came out on the other side it then iNan dered all over the block carpeting it completely with its tin leaves leanes ot of green the lace or lattice leaf plant of madagascar lives in the water nater and looks like a piece of beautiful drawn work that some careless visitor had bad ac ci dentally dropped there |