PARK AND CEMETERY 
and Landscape Gardening. 
VOL. XIV CHICAGO, NOVEMBER, 190* No. 9 
Fall Aspect of the Planting' at St. Louis. 
By Mrs. Frances Copley Seavey. 
Taken as a whole, the planting on the World's Fair 
grounds has done remarkably well, the general effect, 
up to the time that frost cut off all tender vegetation, 
being well-covered beds gay with color. 
The Cascade and Sunken Gardens furnished elab- 
orate displays of vegetable embroidery which attracted 
a never-ending procession of delighted visitors as long 
as they lasted, which was until about Oct. 24th or 25th, 
the ravages of the Frost King be- 
ing warded off as long as possible 
by various ingenious protective de- 
vices. Frames were constructed 
each cold night over the mounds 
and beds of crotons, and vast quan- 
tities of other tender material, to 
support coverings so large and so 
heavy that many men were required 
to handle them. These measures 
for prolonging a feature which 
seemed to appeal to all visitors were 
highly successful, several severe 
frosts making but slightly noticea- 
ble impressions. The color effects 
in these gardens were chiefly se- 
cured by the use of ordinary bed- 
ding plants such as colei and alter- 
nantheras in variety, acalvphas, 
crotons, “dusty miller,” salvias, etc., 
but material less connnonlv seen 
was utilized to good purpose, as, 
for instance, two or more va- 
rieties of variegated abutilons in gracefully-shaped 
masses drooping from a broad band of Salvia 
splendens which outlined the upper margin of the 
Cascade Gardens with a conspicuous line of color ; 
and throughout the extensive scheme color effects were 
well-managed, scarlets and crimsons being generally 
judiciously placed well apart, or carefully separated 
into different lines of vision by variation in the height 
of plants, or by bands of well-chosen material. 
Among the things in noticeably good form late in 
October were beds of verbenas, of Drummond phlox, 
of the old-fashioned crimson globe amaranth, and of 
Vinca rosea and Vinca alba. Cannas were strongly 
in evidence and filled the formal, slanting beds set in 
the concrete of the stairways to Festival Hall as ac- 
ceptably as anything that would have given the same 
long season. In the informal beds outlining the outer 
sides of these stairways, and in other locations, double 
yellow daturas and trailing evening primroses made a 
goodly showing, and hardy chrysanthemums, crowded 
with buds, gave promise of some color even in No- 
vember. Everywhere scarlet salvia and cosmos in 
many hues proved their value as reliable late bloomers ; 
in fact, they supplied by far the larger part of the 
flowers seen on the fair grounds during the month of 
October. The British garden was a beautiful sight 
with nothing but cosmos in riotous profusion, but in 
well-disposed masses, and a few statelv dahlias. 
SIDE VIEW OF CASCADE GARDENS AND FESTIVAL HALL. SHOWING GOOD 
EFFECT OF SHADE TREES PLANTED TWO YEARS BEFORE THE FAIR 
OPENED. 
