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and threw out a large, light, symmetrical panicle of drooping, 

 creamy flowers. The bottom of the plant was as good as the 

 top, the long, yellow-bordered leaves being numerous and per- 

 fect, and symmetrically disposed. The plant belonged to 

 Siebrecht & Wadley, and was brought from their Trinidad 

 nurseries. 



Next to the New York Building was the charming, home- 

 like building of Massachusetts, in the true colonial style, re- 

 enforced with its terrace and esplanade. Here, again, was a 

 distinct type of ornamentation. The terrace wall at the con- 

 fines of the lot rose three or four feet high, and this was sur- 

 mounted by a fence about four feet tall, and the whole was 

 covered with a most profuse drapery of the interesting Japa- 

 nese hop, sprinkled with the scarlet-runner bean and the morn- 

 ing glory. The esplanade inside this wall was some fifty feet 

 wide, of which about ten feet at the outer side was covered 

 with a free border of shrubbery. In this shrubbery were dog- 

 woods and spireas in profusion, Lycium Chinense, Solanum jas- 

 minoides, lilacs, kerrias, symphoricarpuses, Lonicera Morrowii, 

 with now and then a sprig of wormwood or Daphne Cneorum. 

 Against the building was a mixed border of remarkable inter- 

 est and beauty, which contained many of the familiar flowers, 

 with masses of sunflowers against the windows. Among the 

 plants which gave this border a home-like and native charm, 

 were marigolds and asters, balsams, iunkias, calendulas and 

 alyssum, wild asters like Aster Novce-Anglice and A. Tradescanti, 

 Helenium autumnale and hollyhocks. Excellent plants of the 

 western Helianthus orgyalis grew against the front porch, and 

 gave it much spirit. Upon the west side of the building a ter- 

 race about ten feet wide was brilliant with peonies, Campanula 

 Carpatica, "The Pearl" achillea, Pyrethrum idiginosum, Golden 

 Fleece chrysanthemum, bouncing bet, ragged robin, Eupatorium 

 ageratoides, zinnias, Coreopsis lanceolata, eulalias, and the like. 

 As a whole, this Massachusetts yard was the best single piece 

 of decorative gardening at the Columbian Exposition, and the 

 purity and simplicity of its bloom must have been a relief to 

 every attentive visitor who had made a tour of the more pre- 

 tentious efforts, with no end of "improved" varieties, in other 

 parts of the grounds. The planting was designed by Wood- 

 ward Manning, and its immediate care was in the hands of 

 Louis Guerineau, a gardener of long experience. 



The ornamentation about the Convent— which was made 

 by the landscape department of the Fair — -was designed to rep- 

 resent the sodless vegetation of a hot and arid region. It 

 abounded in succulents like sedums, portulacas, mesenbryan- 

 themums, house leeks and various stiff desert-like plants. 



