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nomic room adjoining that in which most 

 of the glass flowers are displayed. The 

 models to be found there, which were 

 transferred from the main collection with 

 the consent of Mrs. Ware and Miss 

 Ware, illustrate with the effect of reality 

 the exhibits of plants that yield useful 

 products. 



Here are beautiful models of the flax, 

 cotton, tobacco, coffee, and chocolate plants, 

 the tea plant with its dark green leaves 

 and pure white, golden-chaliced blossoms, 

 and the cornstalk with its graceful tas- 

 selled head and ripening ear in its green 

 husk, from the end of which the slender 

 tuft of corn silk is hanging. With the 

 model of the flax plant are shown fibres 

 from Russia, Siberia, Ireland, Germany, 

 and other places, and samples of jute be- 

 longing to the linden family, and of ramie 

 from China and India belonging to the 

 nettle family ; while all kinds of rope and 

 hemp are displayed, the manila from the 

 banana family, the pita or agave, the pine- 

 apple fibre, of which the most delicate 

 handkerchiefs have been woven, vegetable 

 wool, and others. With the glass specimen 

 of the cotton plant are to be seen cotton 

 balls and samples of different grades of 

 cotton from our Southern States, and from 

 Peru, Brazil, the Sea Islands, Greece, Egypt, 



