PARK AND CEMETERY 
and Landscape Gardening. 
VOL. XIII CHICAGO, FEBRUARY, 1904 No. 12 
Landscape Gardening at the World’s Fair. 
Contributad lay a Subscriber. 
Landscape art in its highest form will be one of the 
features of the great World's Fair in St. Louis this 
year. Only to one familiar with the surrounding 
conditions in the early stages of the exposition, can 
come to a full realization of the difficulties overcome 
in developing the grounds. Forest Park, the site of the 
exposition, is a naturally beautiful place and while 
many trees had to be cut away to carry out the general 
scheme and to make room for the buildings, a large 
lagoons lined with fine trees, will be an interesting and 
imposing sight. Throughout this section, avenues of 
Maples ranging from ten to sixteen inches in diameter 
have been planted and, although failure was predicted 
for this work from various authorities through the 
country, the success of the undertaking has been re- 
markable. Out of 250 trees that line the avenues there 
have been but two failures. Nearly all these trees have 
passed through two summers and little anxiety is felt 
SOME VIEWS OF THE 
WORLD'S FAIR LAWNS. 
2. Evergreens About Restaurant 
Building, Planted Last Summer on 
Made Ground. 
3. Row of Birches Along the La- 
goon South of Electrical Build- 
ing. 
1. Planting Trees and Shrubs on 
Hillside South of the Education 
Building. 
area was left intact and it has been the object of the 
landscape architect so to merge this forest into the 
main grounds that the effect will be both pleasing and 
consistent. 
. The State buildings, situated as they are in the midst 
of the forest where all the trees have been carefully 
preserved, have perhaps the choicest location on the 
grounds. But the main picture with its cascades and 
for their welfare this year. A special planting ap- 
paratus was used by the superintendent and about 600 
trees including, Maples, Elms, and Evergreens were 
thus successfully handled. Bare hillsides have been 
transformed into small forests and in spite of many dif- 
ficulties, the work has been pushed rapidly so that 
gratifying results have followed within a compara- 
tively short time. It may be said here by way of ex- 
