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beautiful, well planted and well kept. The Golden Gate 
. Park, of San I'rancisco, deserves also a mention, not only 
for its extent and beautiful situation, but for the use that is 
made in it of flowering perennials in large quantities for 
autumnal decoration, among them many cannas and Japan¬ 
ese anemones. 
“ I was especially delighted with the gardens of Southern 
California, which forcibly remind one of the beautiful gar¬ 
dens on the French and Italian Riviera. The plants grown 
in both places are almost identical, so that I found in Los 
Angeles and neighboring places much the same assortment 
of trees, shrubs, palms, climbers and herbaceous plants I 
am accustomed to see at Cannes, Nice or Mentone. One 
finds there the passion flower, Ganna Indica, the Pkschinus 
Melle and the like. It seems, however, to me that some 
more plants might be introduced, and that especially winter¬ 
flowering acacias and the Banksian roses which form so per¬ 
manent a feature of the Riviera Gardens might be introduced 
more largely into California. The gardens of Mrs. Hollen¬ 
beck at Los Angeles and of Mr. Girard, in Chino Valley are 
fine specimens of California gardening, and the display dem¬ 
onstrates the resources of the soil and climate. I saw nothing 
more interesting in its promise for the future introduction of 
new and valuable plants than in the small garden of Mr. 
Harvey, the secretary of the local Horticultural Society of 
Los Angeles, who, as the result of extensive travels, has 
brought to that place a great many seeds and cuttings of 
new plants, and is testing their adaptability to the climate of 
California. In its slightly crowded state it reminds one much 
of the celebrated garden of Mr. Mazel, of Golfe-Juan. The 
garden is scarcely an acre in extent, but from it more than 
;^8,ooo worth of new and higher grades of plants have been 
distributed during the last few years. He introduces the 
best of the classes that are common to the Riviera. The 
ground has been paid for twenty times over by the plants he 
has reared and distributed from that garden.” 
On the subject of fruit growing in America, M. de Vil- 
morin said : “ It is evident that much attention is being 
given, and with handsome pecuniary results, to the growing 
of fruit in this country, but more especially in the State of 
California. The display of fruit at the World’s Pkair after 
August and continuing to the close of the Exposition was 
probably the finest and most extensive and varied that was 
ever brought together. I find that a great deal of attention 
is being given to the subject in each state, not only by pri¬ 
vate independent growers, but by the local horticultural and 
agricultural organizations, and by the aid of the experimental 
stations supported by the different states and by the national 
government. Through this systematic organization a com¬ 
parative study of the fruit developed and the adaptability of 
particular varieties to particular states and sections of the 
country are intelligently determined. With this study of 
the influence of local conditions is associated investigation 
as to the particular insects most destructive to different 
species, and much knowledge is gained and of a valuable 
nature with regard to fungous diseases, so that fruit-growers 
are familiar with all the recent appliances which science has 
discovered to aid them against their enemies. In conclusion, 
I may say that more attention seems to be paid and to better 
purpose to fruit-growing in this country than in most luiro- 
pean countries. The apples, peaches and grapes exhibited 
by the different states at the World’s Fair and renewed by 
daily contributions by exhibitors was one of the striking fea¬ 
tures of the conduct of that department. Large consign¬ 
ments of fruit were sent every morning from different states, 
so that the specimens should be kept fresh all the time, and 
their di.splay gave not only proofs of successful cultivation, 
but of enterprise and organization which it would not be 
possible to match in any other part of the world.” 
SPRING AND FALL CLUB. 
The Rochester Democrat and Chronicle has this 
account of the “Spring and Fall Club”: “Perhaps 
you have never heard of this club. It has been in ex¬ 
istence for years. It is exceedingly flourishing. Its 
membership has increased rapidly during the past few 
years. The club hasn’t a club house or any other house 
for that matter. Its membership is made up of two 
classes, active and honorary. The active members are the 
ones who have given the club its name. They are 
‘spring and fall’ men. If you have never heard of 
the club you know dozens of its members. They are 
absolutely the best dressed young men in this town. 
They are the only people who have not felt the strin¬ 
gency in the money market. The reason they have not 
felt it is, because they got used to it long before the 
bankers, workingmen and business men generally, knew 
it was here. 
“The ‘spring and fall’ men are those who work in 
the spring and fall and wear good clothes the remainder 
of the year. The honorary members are life members 
as well. They never work and they wear good clothes 
the year around. A man who is acquainted with the 
daily life of the members of the club fell to discussing 
them a few days ago with a reporter. 
“‘There are dozens of young men in this city,’said 
he, ‘ who wear good clothes, never seem to have any¬ 
thing to do except, perhaps, ogle a pretty girl, and have 
no visible means of support. As a matter of fact they 
disappear from the streets for a few weeks in the spring 
and fall. No one seems to know where they have gone. 
They all disappear at the same time. Then all at once 
the whole brigade is back on duty, walking the streets. 
When they first made their appearance if an inventory 
were taken, they would be found to have from $1.50 to 
$4 each in money on their persons. That’s cigarette 
money, and if they were to go hungry, not one cent of 
it would go for food. 
“ ‘ Where did they all disappear to? You know 
Rochester is celebrated for its nurseries. The busy 
