From Frank Morton Todd, Story of the Exposition, volume 4, p. 310 The Cuban flag has a triangle and 5 stripes, seen here. |
they stretched their fronds over a billowy sea of ferns and tropical lilies. There was the curious mycrocycus a tree-fern a thousand years old. There were bamboo palms, breadfruit and banana trees, mangoes, guanabano, dates in bearing, and the finest specimens of crotons with\ their broad, variegated leaves, ever shown in this country. These strange and exotic things, all living under the huge glass bubble, thriving vigorously, and exhaling a moist, earthy tropical scent, established the sylvan atmosphere of the Palace and gave it a haunting and fairy-like charm." (p. 312)
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