People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 April 1893 — Belgium’s Art and flowers. [ARTICLE]

Belgium’s Art and flowers.

A steamer loaded with Belgium exhibits has left Antwerp for New York. This shipment concludes the list of articles which were to be sent from that c ountry to the exposition. More than two hundred packages of Belgium goods have been already received at the Manufactures building, and a shipment of two hundred paintings is en route to Jackson park. The exhibits of Belgium in the Horticultural building will consist of eight hundred plants, noticeable among which will be the displays from Ghent, which town is famous throughout the world for the culture of flowers. The Horticultural society of Ghent sends ' a remarkable collection of rhododendrons from fifteen to sixteen feet in circumference. There is also a fine showing of azaleas.