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nature, must depend upon their happy combination for 
harmony and excellence. 
However, much good work has been done under 
adverse conditions, the chief secondary one (the nat- 
ural result of the cause already alluded to), being 
lack of time to obtain the finished effects that are only 
secured by well established, permanent planting. The 
Fair has grown too rapidly and the confusion and ob- 
struction incident to the extensive building made 
planting on tbe reserved spaces impossible anywhere 
until the fall of 1903, while by far the greater part has 
been done during the spring of 1904, and largely, 
owing to the late season, not until after the opening 
date. The rows of well grown trees along the canals 
and main avenues which add so much of beauty and 
do so much to relieve the severity of insistent archi- 
tectural lines, represent all of the planting done pre- 
vious to October, 1903. 
The landscape work did not receive the early and 
careful consideration that it deserved. 
GARDEN PLANTS— THEIR GEOGRAPHY— CIII. 
Liliales Continued. 
Trillium has 15 species in North America, Northern 
Japan and the mountains of Central Asia. T. grandi- 
florum is a handsome, white flowered plant. Others 
have reddish flowers. 
Veratrum, in 9 species, in Europe, Russian Asia and 
North America, is representative of a tribe with several 
poisonous plants, and rather an exception in a group 
remarkably free from them ; in fact, remarkable for the 
many edible kinds. 
Pontederia, “pickerel weed,” is in 7 or 8 species, 
natives of North and South America, and there are 
worse aquatics than they for gardens where they are 
uncommon to the locality. Eichhornia, in 7 or 8 spe- 
cies, from South America and Tropical Africa; Heter- 
TRILLIUM GR.ANDIFLORUM. 
DICHORISANDR A ANGUSTIFOLI A. 
anthera, in 9 species, from North and South America 
and tropical Africa ; and Monochoria, in 6 species, 
from India, China, Japan, Australia and Africa are 
more or less well known aquatics or bog plants, mostly 
with blue flowers. 
Commelina, in 88 species of perennials and annuals, 
are widely distributed in the warmer countries, but are 
absent from Europe. They are commonly blue flow- 
ered and sometimes singularly beautiful. The indi- 
vidual flowers are fugitive, but there is quite a succes- 
sion. C. communis and C. Virginica are native ex- 
amples. C. caelestis is in gardens, and may be planted 
over lily beds in summer. 
Aneilema, with 60 species, also blue flowered and of 
wide distribution in the tropics, contains several pretty 
little creeping plants. 
Cochliostema, of the same tribe, is probably mono- 
typic, blue flowered, and from the Andes of Ecuador. 
Tradescantia has 32 species in tropical and North 
America. The “spiderwort” may be taken as the 
northern garden type ; it is usually bluish purple, but 
it has reddish, white, and double forms. A Central 
American plant, known in hothouses as T. discolor, is 
properly Rhoeo discolor. 
Spironema fragrans is a Mexican herb with white 
flowers. 
Zebrina, in 2 species, are from Northern Mexico and 
Texas. One is commonly known in greenhouses as 
Tradescantia zebrina, and has prettily variegated forms 
known as tricolor, vittata, etc. The flowers are com- 
paratively inconspicuous. They, of course, endure the 
winters far south. James MacPherson. 
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SUNDAY FUNERALS. 
The North Burial Ground, Providence, R. I., has 
joined the ranks of the cemeteries that are discourag- 
ing Sunday funerals. In June Superintendent James 
Warren, Jr., sent out notices stating that on and after 
July 1 an extra charge of $3 would be made on all 
funerals entering the grounds on Sundays or holidays, 
except those for the free ground. 
American Florist. 
