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AJSTNALS OF HORTICULTURE. 



Japanese garden is at 1, a piece of construction which, as 

 pointed out in the sequel (p. 124), is by no means typical of Japan- 

 ese garden art. Plot 5 was taken by Germany, with a collection 

 of ornamental plants furnished by several firms. The most 

 conspicuous plants early in the season were roses, especially 

 the standard or tree plants. Later on, stocks and asters, mont- 

 bretias, single dahlias, tuberous begonias, excellent border car- 

 nations, Quedlinburg phlox and zinnias were the chief plants 

 of interest. The dwarf dahlia called Alba imbricata, shown 

 by Albert Brandt, of Elbing, was particularly good. The 

 plant grows from a foot and a half to two feet high, with very 

 double pure white flowers in profusion. The German exhibit 

 was backed up by a mixed collection of shrubbery, which was 

 planted by the Fair managers. Plot 6 was filled by the Dingee 

 & Conard Company with a large bank of hydrangea, bordered 

 by a loose belt of clematis. The same firm occupied the center 

 of plot 7 with a clump of tamarisk, around which was a plan- 

 tation of hydrangea and a border of clematis. The borders of 

 this area were given to various dianthuses by C. Eisele, of 

 Philadelphia. Border carnations and Dianthus Heddewigii were 

 prominent. Plot 8 was also taken by Dingee & Conard, with a 

 mixed shrubbery, comprising hydrangea and Rosa rugosa, 

 bordered with Lobelia syphilitica and its variety alba, and beds 

 of pinks in the foreground. 



Plot 9 was open greensward. ~No. 10 was assigned to W. 

 W. Wilmore, of Denver, who showed a large variety of single 

 and double dahlias — the best, probably, at the Fair. Plot 11 

 was filled with big sunflowers by the Bureau of Floriculture, 

 but the severe drouth interfered much with its beauty. The 

 idea was a good one, however, for it enforced the yellowness 

 and warmth of the American summer and autumn. Area 12 

 had three large beds of herbs by Rea Brothers, of Norwood, 

 Massachusetts, who made a display of the excellent (Enothera 

 Youngii and sunflower-like composites. Masses of native asters 

 were also prominent, as also were perennial phloxes, ~Eryngium 

 amethystinum, Zauschneria Californica, Pyretlirum uliginosum and 

 4 'The Pearl" achillea. Part of this area was occupied by 

 Ellwanger & Barry with a shrubbery, in which hydrangea, 

 variegated and cut-leaved elders, Prunus Pissardi and phloxes 

 were most conspicuous. This firm also filled plots 14 and 15 

 with a general collection of ornamental nursery stock, which 

 was the best display of its kind in the Exposition. Pitcher & 

 Manda made by far the largest and most varied display of 

 herbaceous plants. There were over two hundred species and 

 varieties in bloom in the later days of the Fair, among which 

 the most prominent things were pyrethrums in variety, native 



