September 2, 1916 



HOETICULTURE 



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PICTURESQUE LA SALLE COUNTY. 

 La Salle County, 111., is an ideal 

 place for a short vacation. In the 

 making of a prairie state, nature here 

 seems to have suddenly changed her 

 jnood, and from rolling smoothly the 

 miles and miles of earth to a monoto- 

 nous level, she turns to scooping out 

 and piling up until the result of her 

 freakish work is a scene unexcelled 



Canyon, Deer Park, III. 



for picturesque beauty by even the 

 mountains of Colorado. As if to atone 

 for the plain surface of the rest of Illi- 

 nois three great special features of 

 rock formation have been grouped to- 

 gether within eight miles. 



Starved Rock, formerly called Fort 

 St. Louis, is the place where the first 

 white settlement was attempted In 

 Illinois, in 1682, by La Salle, who 

 hoped to make it a great fur trading 

 center. Nearby were the Illinois, the 

 Shawnee, the Miami, the Iroquois and 

 other Indian tribes, whose battles for 

 possession finally ended in 1769, by a 

 clash which left the Illinois warriors 

 starving upon the great rock, which 

 event is commemorated by the name 

 then given to the old fort, and a few 

 years ago Starved Rock and its ad- 



joining canyons became a State Park, 

 where 100,000 visitors journey yearly. 



Deer Park, 111., has been noted for 

 its great canyon three-fourths of a 

 mile long and from 75 to over 100 feet 

 deep. It is a part of a tract originally 

 secured by Wm. Clayto'n from the gov- 

 ernment. With the passing of years 

 the property came into the possession 

 of P. W. Matthiessen and now includes 

 1600 acres reaching to Starved Rock 

 Park, and is considered the finest pri- 

 vate estate in the Illinois. It is the own- 

 er's pleasure to give the public the en- 

 joyment of the canyon and surrounding 

 grounds and he has spent thousands of 

 dollars in cement bridges, steps, etc., 

 with pavilions and parking places for 

 autos. A nominal admission fee of 

 ten cents is charged and turned over 

 to the women's clubs who police the 

 park and use the rest for charity. 

 The gardener in charge is Samuel 

 Holmes. Mr. Holmes says the cold 

 water from an artesian well, though 

 unlimited in supply, has not met the 

 need of the gardens, and geraniums, 

 particularly, have suffered in the hot 

 sun this summer. There are no con- 

 servatories, and all the plants are 

 started in frames. 



Emptying into the Vermilion River 

 three miles from Deer Park, are beau- 

 tiful Bailey's Falls, which in mid-sum- 

 mer are a wonderful pile of bare 

 jagged rocks, finished at the top with 

 a broad level shelf of rock. Two giant 

 oaks are found on the Chapin farm in 

 one of the beautiful valleys. From tip 

 to tip the branches measure 86 feet 

 and the trunks which are without scar 

 have a girth of 13 feet well above the 

 ground. A noble elm tree is a fitting 

 companion, being almost as large. 



meyer, Pasadena, Cal.; Sidney H. 

 Bayersdorfer, Phila., Pa.; Mr. and" 

 Mrs. George J. Starr, Wilson, N. C; 

 Thomas Wools, Waco, Texas. 



St. Louis — Phil. McKee, repr. the- 

 American Greenhouse Mfg. Co., Chi- 

 cago; A. T. Longren, Burlington, 

 Iowa; Paul Berkowitz of H. Bavers- 

 dorfer & Co., Phila. 



Cincinnati. — Mr. and Mrs. Purllant, 



VISITORS REGISTER. 



New York.— T. J. Wolf. Waco, Texas. 



Cleveland, Ohio.— J. K. M. L. Far- 

 quhar, Boston, Mass. 



Ocean View, Va. — Geo. C. Shaffer 

 and son, Washington, D. 0. 



Phila.— F. W. Heckenkamp, Jr., 

 Quincy, Illinois; Geo. J. Starr, Wilson, 

 N. 0. 



Boston.— H. C. Neubrand, represent- 

 ing A. N, Pierson Inc., Cromwell, 

 Conn.; Dr. B. T. Galloway, Washing- 

 ton, D. C. 



Washington, D. C— Johan Hage- 



Canyon, Deer Park, 111. 



Winchester, Ky., Miss D. E. Ruch, 

 Shrewport, La., Ross E, Adgah of th& 

 McCallum Co., Pittsburgh, Pa., Julius. 

 Dilloff and Milton Alexander, New 

 York City. 



Chicago.— George A. Kuhl, Pekin, 

 111.; C. B. Knickman, New York; B. 

 H. Klus, Anderson, Ind.; J. J Karins, 

 representing H. A. Dreer, Phila.; Fre* 

 Rentschler and Jacob Kolb, Madison, 

 Wis.; Mr. and Mrs. Grover Rambler, 

 Shreveport, La.; George H. Blackman, 

 Evansville. Ind.; Mr. and Mrs. F. C. 

 Suchy and son, San Antonio, Texas; 

 Pontius Wolff, of Molndal-Goteborg, 

 Sweden; W. W. Coles, Kokomo, Ind.; 

 Mr. and Mrs. H. S. Hill, Maquoketa, 

 la.; Earnest Hiehle of J. W. Dudley 

 Sons Co.. Parkersburg, W. Va. 



