THE AMERICAN BOTANIST. 83 



a naiad who disdaining the love of the gods, was changed 

 into this transcedent flower and abides with us forever. 



Brown University, Providence, K. I. 



A FLOWER SHOW ON THE EAST SIDE, NEW YORK. 



BY PAULINE KAUFMAN. 



THE great spring opening took place at school No. 7, 

 corner of Christie and Hester Streets, New York, 

 from May 18th to the 21st, 1904. Every effort was made 

 by the ladies of the National Fruit and Flower Guild to 

 make it a great event. Being the first affair of the kind 

 ever given in this populous neighborhood where a flower 

 is indeed rare, was it a wonder that the thirty-five hun- 

 dred children should become frantic with delight, for did 

 not their elders, accustomed to seeing masses of flowers, 

 get just a little w^ild too ? 



The play ground was turned into a bower of beauty. 

 Stairways, windows, pillars and doors lost their identity 

 in palms and branches of dogwood. Every spot was in 

 bloom. One comer was filled by a beautiful tree, reaching 

 the ceiling and spreading on all sides branches bearing 

 chimes of the daintiest white bells with long clappers of 

 greenish w^hite and red. Aptly was this named the snow^- 

 drop tree {Halesia). Very interesting, too, was a small 

 model of a maple sugar outfit, and the explanation of the 

 process of making the sugar, given by Mr. Parsons, de- 

 lighted all the children. 



On the table representing a sv^'amp, grew various 

 mosses, hepatics, equisetums, ferns, (royal, cinnamon and 

 interrupted, maidenhair, sensitive, rattlesnake, oak and 

 many others), marsh marigold, buttercups, Clintonia 

 borealis, Jack-in-the-pulpit which were naturally great 

 favorities and the resurrection and pitcher plants. Ever3^ 

 group of children asked, why is that called resurrection 

 plant, and hstened eagerly when told that the plant curled 

 up into a dark brown dry ball when deprived of water, 

 to uncurl, flatten out and become gradually green as the 

 water was supplied and that this proceeding could be re- 



