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AKKALS 0# HORTICULTURE. 



Class 186. Fruit trees and methods of raising, grafting, transplant- 

 ing, pruning, etc. Means of combating insects and 

 other enemies. 

 Class 187. Nurseries and the nursery trade. 



GROUP 26. — Appliances, Methods, etc. 



Hothouses, isuiiservatories, methods of construction, 



management and operation. 

 Heating apparatus for hothouses and conservatories. 

 Seats, chairs and adjuncts for the garden and con- 

 servatory. 



Ornamental wire-work, trellises, fences, borders, labels 



for plants and trees, etc. 

 Garden and nursery administration and management. 

 Floriculture and Arboriculture, as arts of design and 

 decoration. Laying out gardens, designs for the lay- 

 ing out of gardens, and the improvement of private 

 residences. Designs for commercial gardens, nur- 

 series, graperies; designs for the parterre; treat- 

 ment of water for ornamental purposes; cascades, 

 fountains, reservoirs, lakes; formation and after- 

 treatment of lawns. Garden construction, building, 

 etc. Rock-work grottoes; rustic construction and 

 adornment for private gardens, and public grounds. 

 Planting, fertilizing, cultivating, and appliances. 



Extent of the Department. — The Department of Horticul- 

 ture was located upon the western side of the Exposition 

 grounds. Its equipment comprised a building 1000 feet long 

 and 250 feet in extreme width, with a magnificent glass 

 dome. This building, described more fully in the following 

 pages, was undoubtedly the most pretentious structure yet 

 erected for horticultural exhibitions. In the rear of the great 

 building, auxiliary greenhouses aggregating about 25000 square 

 feet of glass were erected "for recuperating injured plants, and 

 for developing them to a high degree of perfection before placing 

 them on exhibition." These houses were also used for propagat- 

 ing stock used in the decorative features of display. Two or 

 three acres of ground immediately surrounding the horticul- 

 tural building were devoted to displays of bedding plants, 

 appliances, and greenhouses, the latter also used, by consent of 

 their owners, for various competitive collections of plants. A 

 space of some acres was set apart at the western end of the 

 Midway Plaisance for nursery exhibits, and it was expected 

 that nursery work would be in full operation throughout 

 the Exposition ; but exhibitors objected to the location as being 

 too remote from the central attractions of the Fair, and the 

 space was given up. A small area of two and a half acres near 

 the eastern end of the Plaisance was substituted, and late in 

 the spring of 1893 a variety of nursery stock from France, 

 Mexico, and from a few American firms, was set upon that half 

 of the area lying to the south of the main promenade, and 

 upon the other hall California planted an orange grove and a 

 collection of interesting trees and shrubs. Long before the 



Class 188. 



Class 189. 

 Class 190. 



Class 191. 



Class 192. 



