HORTICULTURAL APPLIAhCES AT THE PARIS EXPOSITION. 



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Yes, doubtless by sprinkling it on the once shapely 

 beds I should be able at one and the same time to enrich 

 the soil and destroy all insect life. So with a fresh ac- 

 cession of courage I sallied forth to make war against 

 my lowly foes, armed with a pailful of the promising 

 stuff, and a tin dredging box by means of which I im- 

 partially peppered my entire domain. 



The asparagus, chicory, Tomhannock lettuce, salsify, 

 round-leafed spinach, egg-plant. White Velvet okra and 

 radish-onions on which I had especially set my heart, 

 entirely failed me ; but the peas had come up fairly. I 

 had two summer squashes, lonely occupants of two long 

 beds ; no Hubbard's ; a few radishes ; no rhubarb ; some 

 mustard, and a few hills of corn. Well, I doctored them 

 faithfully. At sundown I paid another visit of inspec- 

 tion, and found them all dead ; scorched as if by fire ! 



It IS uncertain whether I shall have courage enough 

 to try again next year. I talk of seeding down the en- 

 tire lot to grass in the fall, and planting a few trees • 

 maybe they will live. 



My flower seeds shared the same fate as the vegetables. 

 Only candytuft and balsam, for which I cared least, 

 came up. Of the fruits for which I sent, only one Rus- 

 sian mulberry and a tiny tree blackberry came, the last 

 only living long enough to die, their supply of the rest 

 having been exhausted before my turn came. 



I think I could bear it better if I\!.upert cared. But I 

 do not get a particle of sympathy from him. He per- 

 sists in posing on top of my Magee heater, endeavoring 

 to play that everlasting flute of his, with the most apa- 

 thetic, indifferent expression on his well-bronzed face. 

 It is too bad ! 



HORTICULTURAL APPLIANCES AT THE PARIS EXPOSITION. 



A TRANSLATION OF CH. JOLY'S "RAPPORT SUR LES SERRES ET LE MATERIEL UE l'hORTICULTURE. " 



N 1878 the horticultural exhibits 

 were scattered over the Champ- 

 de-Mars, filling up such places as 

 the industries saw fit to leave 

 v?.cant. 



In i88g Mr. Alphand, assisted by 

 Messrs. Belgrand and Hausmann, reserved almost the 

 entire Trocadero for horticultural purposes. At the 

 Trocadero plantations of ornamental shrubs and fruit 

 trees had been made in advance, in order to adorn 

 the larger vegetation which already existed. 

 The products for class 78 had been placed — 



1. In the two wings of the Trocadera. 



2. In two vast tents, parallel to the fountains. 



3. Upon barges of the Seine, where the irrigating 

 apparatus was placed. 



4. The greenhouses and the kiosques were scattered 

 everywhere along the walks and in the shrubberies. 



As a general observation, the horticultural material did 

 not show, in 1889, much progress. The greenhouses 

 were ordinary structures. One would have wished to 

 see a great winter garden for large vegetation, as in 

 1867, or at least a house devoted to J'iclorin regia, as a 

 departure from the ordinary forms. 



Finally, the almost entire absence of foreign exhibits 

 rendered the horticultural material less interesting than 

 in 1878, 



The following are reviews of each of the sections of 

 class 78 : 



PLANS OF GARDENS AND PHE HORTICULTURAL LIBRARY. 



Framed in elegant trelliess, which were fastened along 

 }he walls of the Trocadero, the Plans of Gardens were 

 certainly among the principal attractions of the class 

 78. Twenty-two exhibitors showed us designs which 

 plainly indicated what transformations a private park 

 can undergo. I should like to have something definite 



upon which one can base an accurate judgment of the 

 value of the work of a landscape gardener. I mean to 

 say : 



1. The plan of the ground given him. 



2. The advantage he has taken of it. 



3. What he has spent. 



I should have liked to see, also, as at other exhibi- 

 tions, plans of cemeteries, such as they happily give in 

 the United States. Among the plans for public parks 

 we notice several for the Park of Liberty, at Lisbon; 

 also various transformations of fortifications of cities, 

 or of a public promenade, such as Ed. Andre has car- 

 ried out in Luxembourg. Mr. Andre also showed his 

 designs representing the gardens of Monto Carlo, the 

 works in which he had directed ; his plans of a new 

 city at Bagnoles and his last work on landscape gar- 

 dening, with the plans, on a small scale, of the porches 

 and gardens which he had superintended from 1878 to 

 1889. 



The art of landscape gardening consists especially in 

 hiding, by plantations, that which should not be seen ; 

 in bringing out points of view by suitable openings ; in 

 artificially enlarging the size of the grounds; in a 

 word, using only what there is beautiful in nature. 

 Certain sites are sometimes photographed and then 

 imitated in appropriate places. 



It is not always easy to judge landscape gardeners by 

 their plans, but in their hands the style of landscape 

 adapted to-day produces the most happy effects. And 

 the park of Trocadero, under the skilful hand of Mr. 

 Laforcade, was an exquisite model, showing all that is 

 light and joyful in a landscape. 



To-day this art is no longer limited, as formerly, to 

 the rather uniform and small foliage of our native 

 plants, so noticeable to all who have seen tropical vege- 

 tation. We have imported a host of plants with orna- 

 mental foliage, with bright and varied colors, which 



