4. INCIDENTAL -OR INDEPENDENT HORTI- 

 CULTURAL FEATURES OF THE 

 EXPOSITION. 



Aside from the formal horticultural displays of the Fair, 

 there were several incidental features of interest, particularly 

 those about some of the State and Government Buildings; and 

 there were a few regularly installed exhibits, of which the Jap- 

 anese garden and the German Wine Building are the chief 

 examples, which were so unlike all others as to call for special 

 discussion.* Amongst the best landscape effects of the Expo- 

 sition were the short north and south views from the bridge just 

 inside the 57th street entrance, at the northwest corner of the 

 grounds. This portion of the park was already improved before 

 the location of the Fair, and the plantations of willows and 

 lower foliage had assumed the freedom of established plants. 

 There was nothing better in its way than the lagoon entrance 

 to the Esquimo settlement, with its bowers of verdure. To the 

 south, the view was more extended, terminating in masses of 

 foliage, and it happened that the architecture of the Washington 

 and California Buildings, which were backed up against this 

 small lagoon, composed well with the planting. The older por- 

 tions of the park lying to the east of this small pond or lagoon 

 had fewer decorative features of merit ; and the border of the 

 main lagoon adjacent to the Fine Arts and Illinois Buildings 

 were almost devoid of effective planting. 



The seed exhibits were divided between the Horticultural 

 and Agricultural Buildings; and the same was true of tools 

 and implements. It was a serious fault of the Horticultural 

 Department that no distinct effort was made at showing the 

 practice and evolution of the "spraying of plants, and the 

 various implements concerned in it. The few spraying devices 

 which were shown in the Horticultural Building, were scattered 

 in two or three places ; and some of these machines were shown 

 in the Agricultural Building and others in Machinery Hall. 



Gardening About State and Government Buildings. — There 

 were four pieces of ornamental gardening at the Fair which 



*The beautiful German Wine Building, however, contained little of 

 specific horticultural interest, and need not be discussed here. The 

 reader will find a description of it in Garden and Forest, vi, 329. 



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