REASONS YOU MIGHT THINK. FLOWERS THAT NEVER WILT NOR FADE. EACH ROOT A SCULPTED ECHO OF NATURE’S GRACE. PEOPLE ARE DELIGHTED BY THEM. THEY’RE DAZZLED BY THEM. THEY REALLY KIND OF FOOL YOUR EYE AND ...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. >> Tucked inside a museum on the Harvard University campus is a gallery teeming with plants so lifelike in appearance you’d be forgiven for swearing they’re real. But this foliage is ...

CAMBRIDGE — In her poem “Silence,” Marianne Moore quotes her father: “Superior people never make long visits,/have to be shown Longfellow’s grave/or the glass flowers at Harvard.” The glass flowers — ...