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Annals of Horticulture. 



terre-gardening": ' 'Gardening maybe divided into three species — 

 kitchen-gardening, parterre-gardening, and landskip, or picturesque 

 gardening."* 



The nursery business belongs to horticulture, and is that part of 

 the cultivation of the various species which relates to the propaga- 

 tion or rearing of plants. In America the word nursery is usually 

 associated with the rearing of woody plants alone; but this limitation 

 is erroneous. Seed-growing is also a part of horticulture which is or 

 may be associated with all plants. Mere manufacture, however, is 

 not horticulture, as the making of wine, cider, jellies, extracts, and 

 canned goods. Horticulture ends at the factory door. 



The Columbian Exposition promises to offer great opportun- 

 ities for the study of American horticulture ; but there appears 

 to be no definite movement looking towards an international 

 World's horticultural congress, although the necessity of such a con- 

 Fair " clave has been urged by the press. The following general 

 outline of the plan of the horticultural exhibition was read 

 before the Michigan Horticultural Society, in December, by 

 J. M. Samuels, Chief of the Division of Horticulture : 



' ' By persistent effort we have succeeded in having assigned to the depart- 

 ment all of a beautiful elevated island, containing fifteen acres, and around 

 which are clustered most of the great buildings of the Exposition. The 

 view, from every part of this island, will be the grandest on the grounds, 

 and in some respects will not be equaled in the world. Adjacent or near to 

 the horticultural buildings an additional ten acres have been secured, mak- 

 ing about twenty-five acres of outdoor space altogether. The island, upon 

 which has been spread the black soil removed from all the building sites, 

 mixed with a liberal supply of fertilizing material, will be used for an ex- 

 hibit of roses, rhododendrons, azaleas, herbaceous plants, and a general 

 nursery display. The planting immediately in front of the building will 

 consist of echeverias and other bedding plants, arranged in raised beds and 

 made to harmonize with the ornamental frieze which extends all along the 

 front of the building. The beds will probably be illuminated with 30,000 or 

 40,000 incandescent electric lights, requiring 1,000 horse-power to operate 

 them. And these lamps will show the complete outlines of every bed, and be 

 placed under foliage, and colored in a way to bring out the most spectacular 

 effects. They will be operated to show portions of the beds at one time, or 

 different parts in rapid succession, and thus present an attractive panorama 

 or kaleidoscope. Other parts of the outside grounds will be illuminated. 



" The horticultural building is the finest ever erected for a fruit and plant 

 exhibition. It is 1,000 feet long by an extreme width of 237 feet. It has a 

 central glass dome, connected by front and rear curtains with two beautiful 

 end pavilions, thus forming two interior courts, each 89 feet by 287 feet. The 

 roof of the front curtains will be glass. They are intended for the tender 

 plant exhibit. The rear curtains, have opaque roofs, except sufficient glass 



*William Shenstone, Works, ii. 125 (176,). 



