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tant parts of the grounds and in them was planted the best shrub- 

 bery that could be found In the United States. Here the object was 

 for immediate effect, so no attention was paid to future growth be- 

 yond one year. Trees such as poplars, ash, willows, maples, box 

 elder, catalpa, alianthus, sycamores, etc., were used for high points of 

 the plantation, often planted two or three feet apart. Then came the 

 grouping in and about these of shrubbery, such as Lilac, Deutzia, 

 WeigeHa, Forsythia, Robinia, Philadelphus, Spiraea, Dogwood, Rhom- 

 nus, Tamarix, Viburman, Berveris and many others, planted so thick 

 that one could scarcely see through a plantation, and then buck bush, 

 sumach and perennials worked in between. Then when the warm 

 days of spring came thousands upon thousands of green-house plants 

 were brought from the green-houses on the grounds and worked in 

 among the shrubs and in a two-foot border around the shrubbery 

 plantation. The green-house plants were worked in natural, irregular 

 groups the same as was the shrubbery, according to size, color and 

 texture of foliage, color of flowers, etc. Some colors go well together, 

 as gray and red, while red and pink do not. Some textures of foliage 

 go well together, as the castor bean, the banana and the canna, these 

 harmonize. Among the green-house plants were canna, banana plants, 

 brought from Florida, geraniums, ageratun, lantana, phlox, marigolds, 

 petunia, poppies, pansies, balsams, asters, alyssium, coreopsis, stocks, 

 zinnia, portulaca and others all worked together in one grand harmonious 

 whole. 



Taken as a whole, the landscape was grand beyond description. 

 Looking between rows of trees and masses of shrubbery the visitor 

 w^ould see broad vistas of lawn bordered by flowers, fine buildings and 

 statuary, while a closer observation, during every month of the Fair 

 would reveal the beautiful bloom of the shrubbery and the many 

 harmonizing colors of the bedding plants. 



Without the landscape work the Fair would have been very plain, 

 indeed, the buildings would have looked tall and bare and the statuary 

 have lost half its beauty. 



A piano solo was now played by Miss Sybil Harvey. 



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