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PARK AND CEMETERY 
DETAILED VIEW OF GARDEN AROUND FESTIVAL HALL. 
details of both the pavilions and the colonnades. The 
scheme is- the same for both gardens and is changed 
only on the line of the Main Cascade, where the beds 
are made to conform more strictly to the architectural 
lines. For some reason, this part has been termed the 
“Rainbow Section,” perhaps because of its nearness 
to the water and because of the probable effects of the 
reflection of colors. From the standpoint of plants it 
will hardly be more brilliant than the other sections. 
While it is almost impossible to give a detailed de- 
scription of a garden of this character, some mention 
of the materials to be used may be interesting. Just 
north of and below the Colonnade of States, a walk 
leads entirely around the upper part of both gardens. 
Next to this is a broad grass strip with a flower bor- 
der and outside of the flowers a hedge of Salvia splen- 
dens. The border next to- the walk will be lost from 
view except as one passes along there and so, as seen 
from below, the Salvia hedge properly forms the line 
from which the garlands swing. The garlands proper 
are made of red -geraniums, Ageratum and Centaurea, 
the geraniums bordered on the upper side by dwarf 
nasturtiums. About every 40 feet the straight upper 
line is broken by circular beds, in which palms and 
other decorative foliage plants will be placed. Between 
the garlands and dropping some distance below them, 
is another bed resembling in form the fleur de lis. As 
the swing is made around Festival Hall and the grade 
becomes steeper,- the garlands become more pro- 
nounced in form and the planting changes entirely. 
Because of the character of the plant and because it 
lends itself most readily to such decoration, the petu- 
nia will be used almost exclusively, and thus the de- 
sired effect of the garlands hanging on the hillside will 
be most brilliantly brought out. The bright colors in 
the petunia, together with the fact that the plant is 
such a profuse bloomer, make it most desirable and in 
large masses it will undoubtedly give an effect that 
few other plants could produce. Immediately below 
Festival Hall at the steepest point of the ground, the 
bedding design breaks into another form, a shield, on 
which the letters “L. P. E.” will be wrought in plants. 
Here we shall have the only bit of real carpet bedding 
in the entire scheme. Below the shield there extends 
the part designated before as the “Rainbow Section.” 
Along the Minor Cascades the bedding gradually dis- 
appears in shrubbery plantations and all along the cen- 
ter parts of the Main and Minor Cascades, provisions 
for planting have been made in long box-like beds. In 
this way certain unnecessarily heavy architectural fea- 
tures will be partly hidden and the lines softened. 
This in general is the adopted plan. It has been 
said that on the- smaller slopes in front of the Colon- 
nade of States the state shields would be carried out 
in plants. The idea was never adopted, and a more 
appropriate one, which is simply the general scheme 
on a reduced and modified scale, has been executed. 
At the present time these little beds are filled with 
thousands of pansies and daisies, which will later on 
be replaced with summer bedding materials. 
In all this vast scheme the harmony of colors has 
been a matter of much study and consideration ; and 
while many thousands of plants will be used and many 
different combinations made, the whole should be 
pleasing and restful, and those tremendous slopes of 
green stretching down toward the water will be the 
basis for a display of plants on a scale perhaps never 
before attempted. The scene at night, too, with all the 
different colored lights on the great masses of flowers 
and foliage, together with the colored lights shining 
through the water as it rushes over the Cascades, will 
be wonderful ; and the thousands of other lights that 
will outline all the great exhibit palaces and illuminate 
the waterways will add to the festive and never-to-be- 
forgotten appearance of the scene. 
VIEW OF GARDEN BETWEEN FESTIVAL HALL AND 
WEST CASCADE. 
