. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. 96 The American Florist. Oct. r, Washington. A part of this city had experience with a young cyclone September i6. At the hDtaiiic gardens serious damage was done. The cyclone came from the southwest and swept over the garden in a diagonal direction toward the northeast. At the southwest corner, just outside the garden several large shade trees were uprooted. A section of the iron fence was thrown down, and the storm, passing over the brick house used for offices, struck the dome of the main conservatory. It tore
. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. 96 The American Florist. Oct. r, Washington. A part of this city had experience with a young cyclone September i6. At the hDtaiiic gardens serious damage was done. The cyclone came from the southwest and swept over the garden in a diagonal direction toward the northeast. At the southwest corner, just outside the garden several large shade trees were uprooted. A section of the iron fence was thrown down, and the storm, passing over the brick house used for offices, struck the dome of the main conservatory. It tore off the top, which was of iron, capped with asbestos, being the flue through which smoke escaped. The iron frame- work was torn to pieces and the frag- meats scattered to the earth. Whole tiers of the ribbed or fluted glass covering the dome were destroyed. The contents of the conservatory escaped serious in- jury. One or two of the palms suffered slight disfigurement from pieces of broken gldss cutting the foliage, but no harm was done to the trunks A section of tin roofing lifted from a house outside the garden near the southwest corner was cirned entirely over the conservatories and deposi:ed on the ground near the main east and west walk. The Garfield memarial tree, being an acacia in the south of the main conserv- atory and between it and the smaller hot- houses, was laid flat. /\ few steps further south and on the border of the walk fronting the row of hothouses the Gar- land memorial tree, and elm, was split clear down the trunk. On the north side of the main conservatory a buckeye, taken seventeen years ago from the grounds of the late Hon. Thos. A. Hen- dricks, and known as the Hendricks memorial tree, was thrown down with such violence as to tear the roots from the trunk The Garfield tree was planted as a memorial of the late President, and the Garland tree was planted by the present Attorney-General. All three are destroyed. Several were lifted from the small
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