THE GARDENERS' CHRONICLE OF AMERICA. 



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HOLLAND'S FAMOUS HORTICULTURAL EX- 

 PERT AT THE PANAMA-PACIFIC INTER- 

 NATIONAL EXPOSITION. 



A. Van \'liet, a famed horticulturist, who built the 

 famed rose and tulip gardens of the Hague Peace Pal- 

 ace, in spite of the war cloud that hovers over his own 

 country of gardens, has come to San Francisco to 

 build, as a setting for the Netherlands Building, the 

 most wonderful example of formal gardening that has 

 ever been seen in America. 



Air. Van Vliet is enthusiastic about California. "It 

 is better than Holland, the country of gardens, for the 

 building of gardens. Here things grow without being 

 asked," he quaintly ^a}'s of local soil and climate. 



AIRIE VAN \'IJET. ox THE RICUT. SUPERINTEMU.XU Til 

 PLANTING OF RARE BULBS IN THE NETHERLANDS GAR- 

 DENS AT THE PANAMAP.\CIFIC EXPOSITION. 



An out-of-doors man, enthusiastic about his art, 

 which has carried him to remote places and taught 

 him the garden lore of two lands, England and Hol- 

 land, Van Vliet is a typical example of continental 

 specialized learning. There is nothing about gardens, 

 ancient and modern, or their planning, that the blond 

 Hollander does not know. 



To San Francisco, with its ideal climate, he is bring- 

 ing the finest exam]iles of his skill. "My country," 

 says Van Vliet, "is the country of gardens. I was born 

 in the province of Bosko])]), and grew u]) among the 

 rose gardens that cover that province. That is why I 

 became a builder of gardens. 



"There is not one bulb, one flowering shrnl). one 

 little blade of grass that is to grow U|) in onr little 

 section of the Panama-Pacific International Exposi- 

 tion, that did not come from my country — the Nether- 

 lanfls. Alreach' I have l)rought out bulbs costing 

 $10,000. My flowering slirubs and trees are about to 

 be shipped." . 



The Cuban horticultural exhibit has also arrived at 

 the Panama-Pacific Exposition, San Francisco, Cal. 

 The exhibit includes mammoth palms, tree ferns, foli- 

 age plants, and many horticultural novelties. The 

 place of honor, immediately beneath the great glass 

 dome of Horticultural Hall. 182^^ feet in height and 

 \52y2 feet in diameter, has been assigned this remark- 



rilREE EERXS FROM tl'liA IN INI. I'M Al L (II- I loinU I'LTURE 

 AT THE PANAMA-PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL EXPOSITION. 



able exhibit wdiich includes tropical fruit, shrubbery, 

 palms and a varied collection of plants. 



i'RlNCESS PALMS, ;u FELT IX HEKUIT, AND OTHER R.\RE 



SPECIMENS OF THE CUKAN DLSPLAY FOR THE PALACE 



OF IlOUIICn TTRE .\T THE P.\X AMA-P.\CIFIC 



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