PARK AND CEMETERY 
and Landscape Gardening. 
VOL. XIV CHICAGO, AUGUST, 190T No. « 
Foreign Gardens at the World’s Fair. 
By Mrs. Frances Copley Seavey. 
Three foreign gardens seen at the St. Louis Fair 
to some extent exemplify the popular styles of garden - 
ing of England, France and Japan, the last being dis- 
tinctly typical, even the natural contour of the site be- 
ing exactly in conformity with Japanese practice and 
ideals. 
The character of the British building, it being a re- 
ural as flourishing) in tubs on the balustrade of the 
broad, terrace-like veranda of the very attractive build- 
ing. These are box trees or plants, pruned to take 
the forms of chairs, birds, etc., as shown by the illustra- 
tion, and, while in keeping with the style and period 
of the building, serve to show how horribly uglv vege- 
tation becomes when shorn of its natural characteris- 
THE JAPANESE TEA GARDEN AROUND JAPANESE GOVERNMENT BUILDING, ST. LOUIS. 
production of the famous and handsome Orangery, 
forms both the excuse and the reason for the use of 
a style of gardening now obsolete, but in vogue at the 
period when the original was erected. Here are found 
formal beds of flowers dear to the English heart, 
dahlias being prominent. The flowers of the parterres 
divide attention with examples of topiary art that 
flourish (if such stubby specimens of growing plants 
can be said to do anything as commonplace and nat- 
tics and forced to assume forms alien to all natural 
growths. 
The French government has put up an exact copy 
of the pink marble Palace of the Trianon, and it was 
intended that this happy choice should be enhanced 
by elaborate gardens. These were planned in the 
modern style of French gardening by M. Vicherot, 
connected with the Park System of Paris, and much 
choice material for carrying out his design was brought 
