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Building, and the gardens which sur- 

 round it. Manked by the quiet pool. La 

 Laguna de las Plores, these gardens oc- 

 cupy the entire space between the Prado 

 and the defile which leads into the Canyon 

 Cabrillo and the north and south space 

 between the Cafe Cristobal and the Home 

 Economy Building. Within the i'lOtani- 

 cal Building itself, one of the largest 

 lath-covered structures in existence, is a 

 rare collection of semi-tropical and tropi- 

 cal plants. The building is thick witli 

 palm and bamboo, and aralia. a sort of 

 little brother to the fig tree, and banana 

 and its relatives, and many other forms 

 found generally in Central American jun- 

 gles. The ground co^-ering is almost en- 





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cedar, wistaria and other visitors from the Orient, 

 which fill the Japanese gardens at the rear of the 

 main Botanical Gardens, half-concealing the pavilion 

 which Japan and Formosa have erected as an Exjxisi- 

 tinn exhibit. 



Across the Alameda lies tlie citrus orchard of orange 

 and lemon and grape fruit and tangerine and kumquat, 

 and a number of interesting hybrids of various citruj 

 grafts, all blooming and bearing in their natural sur- 

 roundings. The sight of the fig and date, the apricot 

 and olive and alligator pear is alTorded the visitrr of 

 the north thr(.)ugliiiut the }-ear in the model farm by 

 the citrus orchard. 



Further down is the tea ])lantati(in Ijrought over 

 from Ceylon by Sir Thomas Lipton, where some two 

 hundred young tea saplings are growing and bearing 

 and furnishing commercial tea leaves for serving in 

 the jjavilinn at the center. Of course, the cactus of the 

 desert country is shown, and over the view of the dis- 

 tant' hillsides, still lies the great mantle of the sage- 

 brush and the chapparal. In other words, everything 

 which is natural to southern. California, and which 

 (ince transjjlanted, grows as well as if it were a native, 

 is to be found within tlie Exposition gates. It is the 

 most complete horticultural display that America has 

 ever seen. 



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LOOKING EASTWARD IN EL PRADO FROM 

 THE TOWER OF CALIFORNIA BCII.DING. 



tirely isolepsis. There are two great 

 cages from which come all day long the 

 songs of the thrush and linnet and 

 canary. 



There is an open pciol thick with lilies, 

 almost into which falls from the ceiling 

 the growth of vitis. one of the air plants 

 and 'the sweeping fronds of tropical ferns 

 planted along the edge. There are also 

 the tree fern, the insectivorous pitcher 

 plant, and other rare contributions from 

 the tropics, but far more impressive than 

 these strangers, is the sight of the trees 

 and shrubs which are occasionally found 

 in Northern conservatories, where they 

 reach a moderate growth. In San Diego 

 they grow out-of-doors in their natural 

 state, and reach a height and splendor 

 which is impossible indoors. This is 

 liarticularly noticeable in Japanese 



THE FORMAL GARDEN WITH THE CITRU.S 'IRCHARD IN THE r.ACKGROUND. 



