PARK AND CEMETERY 
and Landscape Gardening. 
VOL. XIV CHICAGO, JULY, 1904 No. 5 
Planting at the St. Louis Exposition. 
By Mrs. Frances Copley Seavey. - 
The Cascade Garden is the most conspicuously 
placed piece of planting on the grounds of the Loui- 
siana Purchase Exposition, and it has been figured 
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UPPER PART OF HILLSIDE PLANTING, 
Forming eastern boundary of Cascade Garden; German Building in 
background. A similar plantation bounds the garden to the west of 
the western minor cascade. 
and described with some detail in this journal. 
General interest will doubtless center in this showy, 
formal bedding massed, as it is, on the green slopes 
below Festival Hall and the Colonnade of States, 
and between the main and the minor cascades, 
because it is the heart of the grounds, is the 
feature that has been most widely advertised, 
and appeals most directly to visitors by reason 
of the life and motion of the fountains and 
cascades, and by the general beauty of the entire 
scene. Every visitor sees it, and the brilliant em- 
broidery of color worked out on that hillside and seen 
through the shimmering play of water, and against 
the effective background of splendid buildings, col- 
umns, and statuary, makes an impression that is car- 
ried away as one of the unfading legacies of the great 
Fair. While this seems certain, it is feared that many 
may overlook, or fail to recognize the beauty and 
desirability of the informal plantations of deciduous 
trees and shrubs and small conifers that occupy the 
knolls to the right and the left of the minor cascades, 
and which fitly frame the central picture. These 
parapets of the canals, and their borders are inter- 
spersed with many attractive flowering perennials. 
While the excellence of this feature of the planting 
may escape the ordinary observer, it is strongly rein- 
forced by fine, naturalesque plantations at the abut- 
ments of all the bridges over the canals (or lagoons 
as they are called, although outlined throughout their 
entire course by continuous parapets), and this phase of 
the planting scheme tends to emphasize the desirability 
and beauty of the freer style, and to attract favorable 
attention to landscape planting as opposed to the more 
formal and merely decorative use of ornamental vege- 
tation. Possibly the excellence of this feature is most 
NAPOLEON BRIDGE, WORLD’S FAIR, 
Showing informal planting against abutment; German building in the 
background. 
pronounced when seen from the water, although no- 
ticeable and distinctly pleasing from all points of view. 
As a small boy noting these charming groups from a 
