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ding Yucca Whipplei, four feet across, E rythea armata, E. edulis, and 
several other palms, and a fine silver tree ( Leucadendron argenteum y» 
a Cape plant not easy to cultivate in Bri 
The Florida State building, a reproduction of Old Fert Marion, or 
St. Augustine, the oldest structure in America, was surrounded by a 
forest of Yucca alotfolia of various sizes. 
In front of the building erected by di Territories of Arizona, New 
Mexico, i Oklahoma, there were some very fine succulents, a Cereus 
omens 15 feet high, with a crested head 4 feet across, Hehinocactus 
Wislizeni, Agaves, Fouquiera splendens, &c. 
The anion surrounding the seprodhction of the Convent of La Rabida 
ished E. eb treated from any other spot in the grounds. Here, 
ake shore, Elymus arenarius formed large masses, Artemisia, 
Cineraria maritima, dwarf Opuntias, large Agaves, Dasylirions, 
Phormium tenax, Glaucium luteum, and sheets of Portulaca in ful 
eto: formed a curious yet pleasing pie mers i 
the sland " was the Rosary, covering an acre’ in 
PU dpi soy laid out in geometri — fashion. The roses here, as well as 
elsewher: n the grounds, appeared to have done well, and to have given 
whom are een pt wit verdes methods, do not grow 
standard roses. Gladioli and lilies were planted in the rose beds, and 
the former were flowering during my visit. 
Tuberous begonias and dahlias were poor; the climate seems too hot 
for them. e only good begonias I saw were in the gardens of Professcr 
Sargent, at Holm Lea. Phloxes, as might be expected, do well; stocks, 
zinnias, Ta carnations were poor. 
ne of the features which could not fail to strike even the most 
superficial prd ines with any knowledge of gardening, was the wonderful 
display of fruit. A constant supply of fresh fruit was regularly kept 
up, and a lengthy report would be becestary to give even a faint idea of 
the importance of this branch of the * Exposition.” Museum specimens, 
i.e., fruits preserved in various solutions in order to exhibit their 
charactere when fresh specimens were not to be , were finer here 
pera I had ever seen them. In the California Building were admirable 
es of oranges, goce olives, apples, pears, peaches, &c. Many of 
the exbibitors had methods of their own, which they refused to divulge. 
With some fruits à rere acid solution was successful; with others 
chloride of zine and boracic acid solutions do better. Alcohol bleaches 
and this is evidently not much 
used. To very weak solutions of boracie acid and chloride of zine an 
addition of glycerine is needed in order to make the fluid as nearly as 
possible of the same density as the fruit arri Otherwise such thiu- 
icem fruits as peaches, &c., soon crack and spoi 
end of July onwards, lily of the valley v was well shown; the 
Pri are kept in ** cold storage," and only brought into heat about ñ 
fortnight or three weeks before they are wanted in flower, these were 
exhibited by Ernest Asmus, a large grower at West Hoboken, New 
ersey. ; 
A charming feature in Washington Park is the lily ponds; of 
these there are three, on different levels, so as to secure a flow of water ; 
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two of the 
third is unheated. The heated ponds are dedicated to the Victoria 
Regia, topical water due &c., the third to various aquatics. Eichornia 
