New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-05-19
NO. IS FLOWER SHOW.
Nature Brought to Public School
Children IN HeSter-St.

The living spirit Of spring descended upon Public
School No : at Hester and Chrystie SITS, yesterday
descended TO stay three whole days She came
blithey and ra6iantly clothed in apple blossoms
and noddng triIlGms in vioiets and sweet fern ard
everlasting pussyfooJs. ana an the three thousand
bovs and girls in the school came out to greet her,
as their parents and friends VIII come tomorrow.
Amt ii a great show" enthusiastically ex-
claimed a ffteen-year-cl5 lad one Of the older
pl!pIs who had been asked TO assist the nature ma
teriaI committee Of the PuHIic Education Associa-
ZION. under whose auspices the flower show was
held
Did you see me maple sugar. oh. YOU ought TO
see The marie sucar-ts grand and he eKultiugIy
Led the way. Now, here's the sap Just as il Jets
cur = the tree shaking pint bottle Of thick,
vaitish Fudt 7 wouldn't "A believed that would
make maple sugar # hadn't been told SO by man
7 have every confidence in. 80. 7 wouldn't Here's
piece Of maple tree with the tube set in and the
IL pan hanging under 70 eatea the sap"
When farmer taps q maple sugar tree he
brooks nail into the tree 70 hang the bucket on"
l-.s-po,s-ed stout boy with striped cuffs he
cox. hang 81 on hook like that"
even. when ire sap is all ietted out" continued
t. young cice-o-e rot needing the interruption
they boil boil it-oh. how they boil it,r-waving
rs hand vigorously as Il IN sympathy with the
furious agitation 81 the boiling sap-"and then II
h0i,s 20 this dark syrup. But N.Y. and here he
caught up the bottle OF sugary fluid and shook it
n an access q scientific Joy 7 never would have
maple sugar II I hadn't been told
That on. that's butternut. Grand. amt Il?
TIE butternCt IS shaped Ike canoe" He out
lined q canoe on the deal table with a swift thumb
nal. Awful hard 70 crack. Tastes Ike butter.
never lad one, but they tell ne they're something
lovely
Seen the dogwood7 on, we've got lots 'er dog
wood-over there-and there. well. that's all dog
wood Amt il grand? Ny. but this IS the grand
est flower show ever saw"
What's that" asked chubby little girl point
ing with dirty forehnge-
''Solomon's seal I was showing Z 70 some OF
the kids, and they asked me y them little white
bells on II was bananas. Baranas I was looking
Tor the solomon's seal on it. but I guess il was
left behind IN the ground. There was fellow
brought IN four geraniuns this morning. oh, see
the roses" said one OF the boys. (He thought
geraniuns was rosesD
Wild pinks." He seized a tin wash hand basin
n both hands, burying his face rapturously IN the
purply, piuky blossoms. Lovely! Lovely don't
think there's anything grander IN the whole show
than them pnks The way the little red bud jets
out from the green leaves, all folded UP, and then
the way the petals open out Why. il kind er
makes me think q the way the apple blossoms
act" He led the way trtumphantly TO the apple
blossoms Then. holding UP a spray OF the ex-
e1isite taings-"5eTe's the pink bud and the little
circle o. green leaves back Of IL. and the pistil
aid stamens come and then the white petals
They're white by this time-drop on. and then. II
you feel. you can fee = little hard nut-and-thats
the apple
Seen the MOSES and swamp things? Oh, you
must They're grand. They've got the biggest
9ack-.n-the pulpit I wouldn't have believed they
Few Is| 50 big Il ] hadn't seen it There she IS
- she l0velv.'-as ne detached the mammoth
80 IRON It's companion stalks and examined IL
".sn ahectonate regard.
MS plant here IS Resurrection IT all dries up
go YOU think rs Just q dry old weed then II rains
En Il" pa az SAl ~
He csrsssed the woolIy fringe Of a fern that
oe.SSu n a keg Of water. Cinnamon FERN: DO
GOO ny child IS one name for it. don't know
- save II that The leaves are very queer:
hy Jlst Jet from the sta1k-do you seas II
So So 2 been cut with scissors. Thatg On tnat =
..tt-l31 People who don't know mix II I'D Wltl
Ia snowfall there. This is one OF the grand
M sarubs here-Ja panese ounce. or nre oush.
I" .eh The sun reflects Itself upon the rec MOVERS
Ent amt il grand. and he stopped over the
Nlahehes with the adDs7ng reverence OF lover
some OF the girls Rrs so Ignorant was ar
ca-slng the wild honevsuckles this morning ana
rreoshes. Leog Raaishesi I guess not. indeed!
eatn, tais IS the grandest flower show ever ga "
wouldn't have believed a flower show could be
90 grand Y hadn't seen 4 for myself
mrs John ]. Northrop had charge OF the snow
s1eliig assisted ~ Mrs Horace see, MISS Emily L.
zacSerDan, Mrs Cnderh!ll A. BUD, MIS-. julius
=: cohen. Miss F. StrasbEggsr. MIS- James Is
RICKETTS, Miss T. n Isaacs and others. besides the
cipas
The Park Department contributed a large wagon
559ad Of branches in flower, tho director OF the
sSotaE.cal Garden in The Bronx box OF the
same and the Daisy Saturaltsts, OK Seneca, - y;
@lrs. G F. Roe. Of Highland Falls. y. y, and MIS-
TIE large number OF contributors.