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Show ! IEUITS 'AND FLOWERS. The Horticultural Display at the Columbian Exposition. An Exhibit of Nature's Riches Bonn-teooa Bonn-teooa and BMratKwl ncra-a Description Descrip-tion A Flowing Fountain of Wine from California. . The horticultural display at the world's fair will be bewildering in extent ex-tent and marvelous in beauty. The exhibit ex-hibit will possess great scientific and educational value, but to the ordinary visitor its ornamental features will be the most striking. Indeed, it will play an important part in the adornment of the great exposition. While in almost every part of the exposition grounds may be seen gratifying evidences of the very efficient work of the horticultural department, the central point of interest inter-est will naturally be in the exhibit in the horticultural building. This structure struc-ture is 998 feet long and has an extreme width of 250 feet. Its plan is a central pavilion with two end pavilions, each connected with it by front and rear curtains, cur-tains, forming two interior courts, each 88 by 270 feet. Surmounting the central pavilion is a beautifully proportioned dome, 18T feet in diameter and 113. feet high. In the south pavilion of the building-will building-will be installed the viticultural exhibit, ex-hibit, embracing all varieties of wine and everything- pertaining to its manufacture. manu-facture. An idea of how complete this part of the exhibit will be can be gained from the fact that applications for space have already been received from thirty-three thirty-three foreign countries. From abroad trie exhibits of France, Germany, Spain and Italy will be especially notable. A fine exhibit of Chilian wines and raisins, rais-ins, famed for their superior quality, will be made. California will make a splendid display, all of the great firms being exhibitors and having applied for. much more space than can possibly be allowed them. If permission, which has been asked, be given, Senator Stanford Stan-ford will exhibit a wine, fountain. This, as planned, will throw, for two hours each morning and afternoon, graceful streams of wine to the height of twenty-two twenty-two feet. In the rear curtains of the building will be shown the frui exhibit, which will include nil varieties grown in any part of the world As far as it is possible possi-ble to do so, probably iu a great majority ma-jority of cas.es, fine specimens of the natural fvuit will be shown. Otherwise Other-wise wax models, so perfect in appearance appear-ance as to be indistinguishable from the real fruit, will be substituted. For this exhibit about forty-four thousand square feet, or more than au entire acre of space, is reserved. A very complete and splendid exhibit of citrons and other fruits will be sent from California, Florida, Mexico and South American ripe fruit can be sent long distances without injury, and after reaching the fair cold storage facilities will ba available avail-able to keep it in perfect condition. The exhibit in the imnor-tant line of floriculture will be exceptionally extensive, exten-sive, and the preparation of it is far advanced. ad-vanced. Unless this were the ease the exhibit could not well be a success for : time is required for the plants to overcome over-come the check received in being transplanted. trans-planted. More than 500,000 transplanted trans-planted shrubs and plants, of many spe- growing1 m tne exposition grounds, and the number is rapidly -creasing. The department sent ou culars to prominent hortieulturfr - cir' horticultural societies in all p" jt3 ana-world, ana-world, requesting, donatipsw -ts of the and agreeing to permit; V of plants, address of the donor V -ne name and nection with, suc V - appear in con-nugriC con-nugriC send, lue specimens as they ds of '-'.anf re3ult i3 that thou" I too hs excellent specimens, their re jeen forwarded. Among i are more than 50,000 rare rose I .-ants r.,-hich have been donated by 411,118 'all the way from California to 1 Hur.gary. The floricultural exhibit will not be . 'concentrated in one place. In the front I curtains of the building will appear the 1 A ,fh,ea loT,ts n very large variety and many rare and beautiful specimens. There, too, will be the finest display of orchids ever seen in this country, if not in the world. One firm alone will spend $40,000 on its orchid exhibit. At the opening of the fair, Chief Samueis says there will be a display of 2,000 different varieties of orchids, embracing fully 15,000 specimens. speci-mens. Beneath the great dome will be ii 1i.(tps!1- trnnlf alnlants obtainable, in- eluding Japanese and Chinese bamboos 75 to 80 feet high, palms 30 to 40 feet high, and tree ferns 15 feet or more in height. There will also be a miniature mountain covered with tropical plants, and in a cave within will be tried the experiments of growing plants by electric elec-tric light and of growing them by the aid of electric currents, passed through the soil, both of which, it is claimed, have been accomplished with remarkable remarka-ble results. |