Boro Boedoer 
The illustration accompanying this article is of a 
group of Narcissus portions placed back of some 
shrubs. The camera was placed at a point that may 
be termed behind the bed, the space shown at the 
bottom of the picture being an open one between tbe 
plants and a wooded ravine. While a close inspec¬ 
tion is more readily obtained from this point, the 
general-effect view is from the main lawn seen beyond, 
but more especially from the porch of the house 
situated at the left of the scene pictured. 
In front of the three shrubs seen is a group of the 
tall-growing hybrid delphiniums. 1 hese entirely 
hide from the main lawn view, the dying foliage of 
the narcissus, but are not far enough advanced at 
time of bloom to interfere. 
Their cultivation is simple. Plant in the fall in 
any good garden soil, in full sun or partial shade, 
where the drainage is good, and let them remain until 
they form large clumps. When they show signs of 
deterioration, take them up and replant. While 
manure should not come in contact with the bulbs, 
a coating of it in the fall is beneficial, part of which 
may remain during the summer. 
Some sow the seed of annuals over the bed in early 
spring in order that they may cover the ground in 
summer. I have had no success with this scheme, 
mainly, I presume, because the situation is too much 
shaded. Were it more in the sun I would sow the 
seed of the double form of Sanvitalia procumLens; 
not broadcast, however, but in little spots about 
eighteen inches apart, as this spreading, cushion-like 
plant will completely cover the ground when so sown. 
Its foliage is compact and neat and the very-double 
yellow flower with its black centre and bachelor- 
button aspect, nestling upon its parent verdure is 
pleasing. 
It is a tidy plant, exhibiting no faded flowers, and 
as it seldom succumbs to its first tussle with jack 
Frost, it exhibits its beauty long after many of its 
comrades have gone. 
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BORO BOEDOER 
By Lawrence Bullard 
/ T v O the ordinary traveller, to the student of archi- 
tecture, or to the botanist, a trip to the island 
of Java, only two days’ sail from Singapore, is full 
of interest and instruction. 
The island is in itself the most beautiful garden of 
tropical vegetation in the world. 1 he “Pearl of the 
East’’ it is, without doubt, for nature has endowed it 
with tropical wonders that other famed islands lack. 
For its natural beauties alone, therefore, it will well 
repay a visit. But such a visit is not complete with¬ 
out seeing some of the many temples which dot the 
island. 
Much has been said and written of the Buddhist 
architectural remains in British India, but few appre¬ 
ciate how much more wonderful are the temples of 
the Buddha in java. I he finest and grandest of 
these is at Boro Boedoer, in about the centre of the 
island and just east of Samarang. 1 his great pyra¬ 
midal structure, although earthquakes, deluges of 
rain and vandals have done it much injury, still 
retains, after almost twelve centuries of existence, 
its original form and much of its interesting sculpture 
and detail. 
In 1814 a party of British engineers discovered the 
boro boedoer: a iioary altar of BUDDHA 
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