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Vol. VI 



82.00 a Year. 

 24 Numbers. 



CHICAGO, JULY I, 1898. 



Single Copy m. ,. n 



VIEW IN PAIRMOUNT PARK. PHILADELPHIA 



The Flower Garden. 



TAB WELSH MEMORIAL GROUNDS. 

 It is with pleasure a view is herewith 

 presented of a pretty scene in the John 

 Welsh Memorial grounds, Fairinount 

 Park, Philadelphia. The term flower bed 

 was about to be used for it, but it is not 

 wholly a bed of flowers, as almost every- 

 one would suppose it was at first sight. 

 The broad circle at the base of the vine 

 covered vase which surmounts the whole 

 is composed of an evergreen, closely 

 sheared, Retinospora. plumosa— that is 



to sav, the visible part of it is. On the 

 inside of the circle is planted hemlock 

 spruce, making a solid mass of the whole. 

 Giving the composition of the bed in 

 detail, next to the walk will be observed - 

 a border of turf; succeeding this are cir- 

 cles of Coleus Verscbafieltii, Achyranthes 

 Lindenii, the yellow coleus, Golden Bed- 

 der, and in the last row, Coleus Verschaf- 

 teltii again. The vase is filled mainly 

 with the variegated periwinkle, the one 

 so much used in greenhouses, although 

 the plant in this park has proved itself 

 hardy outdoors all winter. This bed is 

 one of a set somewhat similar which 

 intervenes between one of the entrances 



to the park and Memorial Hall. On the 

 right hand corner of the picture in the 

 distance can be discerned the dome of 

 Memorial Hall. 



Memorial Hall and Horticultural Hall 

 are two Centennial buildings which were 

 not demolished with the close of that 

 memorable display. The portion of the 

 grounds known as the John Welsh memo- 

 rial was so named in honor of the late Hon. 

 John Welsh, at one time our minister to 

 England, who always took a deep 

 interest in Fairmount Park, and to whom 

 was due, more perhaps than to any other 

 man, the success of the Centennial itself. 



The trees on this portion of the grounds 



