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The Rhode Island American, And General Advertiser
Providence, Providence County, Rhode Island
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Philadelphia report on the rare flowering of a century-old Agave Americana at the Orphans' and Widows' Asylum, growing rapidly to 20 feet with hundreds of buds; public invited to view the botanical curiosity on Monday.
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The great flowering Aloe at the Orphans' and Widows' Asylum, corner of Cherry and Fifth-Streets, from Schuylkill, will be in flower on Monday next. The public are invited to this exhibition, which is to be considered the greatest curiosity in the vegetable world. This plant had advanced in height not more than four feet for seventy years, until the 28th of May, in the present year, when the flower stem shot forth, and from that time to the 1st of August it advanced sixteen feet in height. The circumference of the stem is fifteen inches, and has on it twenty lateral or side branches. The lower pine branches from the earth contain more than eight hundred flower buds of a beautiful colour. The Corolla of the flowers inclines to yellow. The stamina are crowned with anthers of a bright yellow. The lower branches are eighteen inches from the main shoot. They decline in length as they advance to the top, having something of the appearance of a chandelier.
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Philadelphia
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August 10
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The great flowering Aloe at the Orphans' and Widows' Asylum, corner of Cherry and Fifth-Streets, from Schuylkill, will be in flower on Monday next. The public are invited to this exhibition, which is to be considered the greatest curiosity in the vegetable world. This plant had advanced in height not more than four feet for seventy years, until the 28th of May, in the present year, when the flower stem shot forth, and from that time to the 1st of August it advanced sixteen feet in height. The circumference of the stem is fifteen inches, and has on it twenty lateral or side branches. The lower pine branches from the earth contain more than eight hundred flower buds of a beautiful colour. The Corolla of the flowers inclines to yellow. The stamina are crowned with anthers of a bright yellow. The lower branches are eighteen inches from the main shoot. They decline in length as they advance to the top, having something of the appearance of a chandelier.