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our beautiful white pine, hemlock, spruce, 

 elm, mountain ash, white ash, and oaks, 



and amoni; lln Iiriir.i , plants, our 



fall asters ji, im : jii variety and 



many other i Iin i I -. not excelled 



in beauty I'V il i nn ..ilier country. 



As tree ]il;iiilini,' lliiie l)egan more 

 than a hundred aiui lU'ty years ago, some 

 of the trees are very larj,'e; among these 

 are a dozen or more cedars of Lebanon 

 of immense size, four or four and one- 

 half feet in diameter. As they stand 

 well apart, and were allowed to branch 

 near the ground, they grew in a form 

 peculiar to that species; with their deep 

 green, compact foliage and majestic 

 forms, they readily command the atten- 

 tion and respect given to this tree by 

 early scripture writers, who frequently 

 used the cedars of Lebanon as symbols 

 of slrenc'th, beauty and grandeur. 



Near the group of ced:us in the garden 

 is an immense Scoteh pine, towering 

 above all others, with a clean trunk, 

 about 100 feet to its lirst branches. 



The shrubs are in such great variety, 

 so well grown, and plainly labeled, that 

 they all'ord a superior opportunity for 

 study. lihododendrons are especially 

 fine here, and a collection of over 6,000 

 flowering hardy herbaceous plants, em- 

 bracing more than a thousand varieties, 

 may be seen — among them the original 

 wild chrysanthemum brought from China 

 105 years ago. It was first introduced 

 into Europe, making our magnificent 

 chrysanthemum shows possible, as well 

 as the one held last November at the 

 Royal Aquarium in London, when its 

 small yellow flower was shown in con- 

 trast with the latest triumph of the 

 florist — a flower fifteen inches in diam- 

 eter. 



The most noticeable structure in the 

 garden is the Chinese pagoda, built in 

 1761, the grounds around it so laid out 

 that it may be seen directly in front 

 from several points, through long irregu- 

 lar lines of trees. Another very promi- 

 nent object is the flagstaff, a single spar 

 of Douglas pine brought from Colorado, 

 supposed to have been 250 years old. 

 It is 163 feet high, with twelve feet 

 underground, enclosed in solid brickwork 

 to insure its security from wind and dc- 



The Palm House is probably un- 

 equaled in beauty and grandeur the 

 world over. It is 362 feet long, with an 

 ell on each side, and is filled with a 

 great variety of palms and other plants 

 requiring the same conditions, many 

 grown as high as the top of the building, 

 and all in- perfect condition. The Hor- 

 ticultural Museum is a large three-story 

 brick building containing an herbarium, 

 library and many horticultural curiosi- 

 ties of interest. Between these two 

 buildings is a very beautiful artificial 

 pond which makes a frontage for each 

 building. Around this pond are beds of 

 flowers of the most brilliant and showy 

 kinds. 



There is a Wood Museum, containing 

 specimens of wood from all of the Brit- 

 ish colonies and other countries; also 

 seventeen or more green houses adapted 

 to the needs of difTerent families of 

 plants, one of them devoted to exotic 

 water lilies, among which the Victoria 

 regia is prominent. Another is devoted 

 to the citrus family of fruits and an- 

 other to the cactus in great variety. 



A portion of the grounds is set apart 

 as a wild garden, with a perfect tangle 

 of trees, shrubs and herbaceous plants. 

 without order or design. The collection 

 of Marianne North's paintings of flow- 



ers, containing 833 pictures, is arranged 

 in a brick building provided especially 

 for it, adding very much to the interest 

 of the garden. 



Where there are no (lower beds the 

 surface is a beautiful English lawn, such 

 as we have often read of — so closely 

 shorn, so green, so soft is it, that one 

 is reminded of a velvet carpet. The 

 signs are not "Keep off the grass," but 

 "Please do not tread upon the edge of 

 the grass." When any portion of these 

 lawns shows signs of exhaustion, the 

 sod is carefully removed, a heavy coating 

 of old stable manure forked iir, then the 

 sod is replaced so carefully that no signs 

 of its removal is noticed. 



Kew Garden is so accessible, so beau- 

 tiful and so instructive that it is not 

 surprising that from 60,000 to 80,000 

 people visit it during the season annu- 

 ally. 



The palace at Hampton Court is fif- 

 teen miles distant from London, and sev- 

 en miles beyond Kew Garden, and is 

 reached by the same lines of travel, con- 

 tinuing through Kew and Richmond by 

 omnibus, or if one prefers, by a coach 

 and four-in-hand from Piccadilly Circus 

 on Sunday mornings. 



The approacli to the palace is through 

 Bushy Park, of 400 acres, by a broad 

 avenue about a mile long. On each side 

 of this avenue are fine rows of horse- 

 chestnut trees, set fifty feet apart. 



ered, and tlie im ' i riully pruned 



and thinned tliii f\,- i. n n. s hang about 

 a foot apart from every part of the vine. 

 As I saw them — 1,200 clusters, fully ripe 

 and well colored — they presented a sight 

 that I shall never forget. This enor- 

 mous crop is maintained bj' an annual 

 application of a heavy coat of old stable 

 manure and ground bone, which is forked 

 into a plot of ground about a« large 

 as the grapery just across the graveled 

 roadway, the main roots passing under 

 the road to this feeding plot. 



The part of the garden on the other 

 side of the palace is differently arranged, 

 and planted chiefly with larger shrubs 

 and trees. 



A FINE DELIVERY WAGON. 



We present herewith an engraving 

 from a photograph of the delivery wagon 

 of Mr. Thomas Stevenson, San Francisco. 

 It cost $1,000 and is the finest wagon of 

 the sort in that city. The picture also 

 shows part of the front of Mr. Steven- 



A BOTANICAL STATION. 



The University of Minnesota will open 

 a botanical station on the west coast 

 of the island of Vancouver next summer 

 if the present plans are carried out. T. 

 M. Baird, Jr., of Victoria, has presented 

 a tract of land for that purpose. 



The Delivery Wagon of Mr. Thos. Stevenson, San Francisco, Cal. 



These trees are two or three feet in diam- 

 eter and about eighty feet high, and cov- 

 er with their shade a space, including 

 the avenue, not less than 800 feet wide. 

 The garden, of forty-four acres, was 

 laid out on each side of the palace by 

 William III. The right side, called the 

 Pond Garden, is in the Dutch style, with 

 elevated terraces, sunlvcn paneled lawns, 

 arcade walks formed by flowering shrubs, 

 flower beds, and a goldfish pond. Here 

 is the old grapei\, nnihi imnL' the fa- 

 mous Black liaiiilnii:: \,ur ili;it is 132 

 years old. The st. m ,ii t'.u- mtrance of 

 the glass house is a foot in diameter. 

 There it sends out three or four branches 

 three inches in diameter. These are 

 trained so that the whole roof, 100 feet 

 long and 40 feet wide, is completely cov- 



The station will be complete in its 

 equipments, and is a novel departure. 

 Minnesota being the second university to 

 open and operate such a station. Leland 

 Stanford university has one in opera- 

 tion, known as the Hopkins seaside labo- 

 ratory. 



A party of n.i;i\- ..,■ ,,i,,re botanists 

 from Minnesdi.i i, , ,,;,| tlie Dakotas 

 has been foiiii'-: ■ i ■: iip tlir work 

 in June. It is . v;-. . t. 4 i !i;U a few more 

 will avail themselves of the advant.ages 

 offered by the station and join the party. 



The easiest way for the man who buys 

 is the cheapest way to advertise. The 

 REvaEw's classified advs. 



The Florists' Manual, by Wm. Scott, 

 is for use every day in the year. 



