HORTICULTURE IN PARIS. 



Fig. 2010. View in the Trocadero Gardens (Russia-in-Asia), Russian Pavilion 

 ANii Dutch Indian Pavilion to the Left. 



flowers the improved varieties of many of 

 our native wild asters were unrivalled ; the 

 effects were always most pleasing. 



The campanulas, especially the canter- 

 bury bells, were very largely used, and with 

 good effect. A collection of forty varieties, 

 that came all the way from Russia, was very 

 much admired. The bright varieties of 

 Tropeolum lobbi made glowing masses 

 that rivalled the large-flowered tuberous 

 begonias. Plants of the sunflower family 

 helianthus, helenium, helianthella, rud- 

 beckia, doronicum, echinacea, coreopsis 

 gaillardias, were in abundance at all the 

 concours. The Aquilegia coerulea hy- 

 brids, and glandulosa, were very beauti- 

 ful. The aster (perennial), alpinus speciosus, 

 was one of the most admired plants during 

 the earlv summer months, flowers of a 



lovely violet and very large and numer- 

 ous. 



Roses in masses were planted by the 

 thousand, standards, half-standards and 

 dwarfs, and as they were chiefly hybrid- 

 perpetuals, Teas and Chinas, they made a 

 splendid display throughout the season, and 

 were not disturbed. These were furnished 

 by the large floral establishments and each 

 mass bore a neatly printed advertisement of 

 the grower. In the same way large clumps 

 of conifers were supplied, each plant care- 

 fully named, and as the variety was very 

 large, and the specimens well grown, the 

 w^hole formed a beautiful object lesson. 



Large plots of climbers in the same way, 

 clumps of evergreen shrubs (not conifers) 

 deciduous shrubs, &c. Clumps of purely 

 American plants — rhododendrons, azaleas 



