Los Angeles daily herald., 1886-04-02
FAIR CONTINUES.
The Ladies Weary Not in
Well-Doing.

The Ladies Weary Not in
Well-D0ing.
SPECIAL FEATURES AT BOOTHS.
Fresh Flowers from Town and
County-The New ContributOrs'
Names.
The third day Of the great Flower
Festival passed off as successfully as
the two going before IT, The ladies are
hard at work at all moments OF the day
and never lag in zeal Of spirit for the
good cause. The throng In attendance
is a steady one, aud while the doors are
open there are quite as many visitors as
can soc the exhibit with comfort and
pleasure. The attendance last night
was larger than on Wednesday.
Fresh flowers are sent in from all
parts Of the city and county to replace
wiItsd ones that have done service for
day or two. This will be necessary to
keep up all through tho fair and those
who have choice flowers could not mako
. better use Of them than to send their
beauties TO the ladies.
SPECIAL FEATBREs.
Yesterday nearly every booth In the
fair tabernacle had some feature OF
special interest. They will be on ex-
hIbition to-day. and readers who carry
this issue of the HERALD in their hands
will find il a good guide to the several
booths.
Mrs. McDonell and the ladies who
assist her ina variety booth, 10 the
riaht Of the central aisle, has some
punches Of marigolds Of great size and
beauty. They are as large as good
sized sauce plates. There is also ship
wrought ont of smilax for the masts and
rigging, and white lady Bank roses for
the hull. There is also q basket Of
ambitions and pelargoniums of many
shades and large development. In this
booth is found the only spray Of snap
dragon the reporter has yet discovered.
1t Is white, with finely formed flowers.
The set pieces have been retrimmed
with flowers of the genista and other
small blossoms.
MRS. GILLErTE's BOOTH
Is the happy possessor Of the superb
wedding bell made for the Glassell-
Ring nuptials, description of which
appeared in the HERALD yesterday. 1t
was the
"Cynosure of thousand eyes,"
Ali day and will continue so while 1t
hangs In the booth. In this booth the
clyanthus continues TO attract attention.
There are also some fine donble poppies,
q Guatamala fuchsia, a blue saliva, o
spray OF Scotch broom, bunch Of yell
low columbine, and one Of the rare
Of life time for some people now tar
rying in Los Angeles to see some OF
them. But the special feature
of all others in this booth Is spray
Of the rhod0dendron, sent In by
Mr.. II. Bacon, Of Griffin avenue, East
Los Angeles. There are perhaps ten
flowers on the head and each one Is as
large as small saucer, perfectly formed,
and Of 8 color as bright as newly coined
gold.
THE PAHsY BOOTH
Has gift from Mrs. P. NJ. Scott and
Miss Della Osborne, San Pedro
street, which attracts a great deal of
admiration. She calls II Moses In the
bulrushes. The rushes are represented
by beautiful ferns. In the lake are fish,
and Moses, by the way, must have been
precoeious he is fishing. The banks
are made Of the pretty moss known as
love in q tangle. IL may also be noted
in passing that Moses Is imam and
brother" Of decided color. 1t was Mrs.
Scott who sent yesterday twenty eight
varieties of roses, thirty-two varieties Of
Reraniums and sixty-five Of other flow
ers, credited TO some one else. Ia the
paAsy booth are also nssturtiums and
psIargoniums which one has TO see TO
know what can be grown in these two
fsvorites. There. are crowds around the
booth all the time.
In the boutonniere booth, besides the
floral key described in the HERALD Of
yesterday, are great many fresh flow.
ers, very choice. A handsome bunch Of
Towering maple Is much admired.
MISS KDA KRAMER
In her variety booth has l40 varieties of
wild flowers gathered about Pasadena
by Miss Jennie and Master Tommy Mel
mes. These children last year sent q
II u r.
ers.
THE BuLsous BOOTH
Has been made happy in a magnificent
piece prepared out OF ranunculi, and sent
especially for the benefit Of the children
by Mr.. p. Compere. Mrs. Rosenbaum
has on exhibit in this booth iris Japan
ica worth goisg one hundred miles to
see. II looks like q pink in the stem
and like q small lily in the flower.
There aro six petals TO each flower. three
marked and three plain. The predomin-
ent color 10 lovely, delicately pale law
snder, and the marks are stripe Of
exquisite yellow lengthwise of its petal,
and this band is spotted with small
black dots.
THE ORANGE BOOTH.
Called the Temple OF Music, is In re-
ceipt Of fresh supplies Of those great
spotless DALLAS and superb roses in hun
dreds. which have elected such admira-
ton from all beholders. One of the in
struments which Is unique in the collec- |
tion Is triangle wrought out Of the
flowers Of the pretty Australian pea
vine, which grows over the porch OF
many California home. In the Citrus |
booth contributed by this same enter |
prising town and SO beautifully arranged |
by tho young gentlemen in charge, there |
IL no new feature, but the splendid dis. |
play Is one the eye is slow to grow tired
of looking on.
vEsTURA's NEW SUPPLIES
Are put In arsistic array by the skillful
hands OF Mrs. Shepherd and Mrs. Shaw.
There are quantities Of the finest pinks, |
great double petunias Of many shades,
pslsrgoniums and fuchsias superb in
size and brilliant in marking, pansies
which make the special booth even look
to Its laurels and single flowers of the
cacti and gladioli such as Eve in the gar
den never saw the equal. A new fea-
turs in this booth which all want to
know the name of Is foliage plant
called the acalphia margineta. Another
fower unique in this festival is a
streptosolen jamesi. A very double and
finely marked ivy geranium flower
creates as great admiration as any Of the
strangers. A bunch of the cloth of gold
rose n another wonder. Mrs. Shepherd
has no coleus with her but she has an
order from Peter Henderson for 10000
coleus seed for this season.
BOYLE HEIeHTs
Holds her own with any of her rivals In
variety and beauty. Mrs. HEAVIER had
basket Of the rare guava berry, ripe
and delicious, on sale, which went of
Mt rapid rate. To this booth Mrs. w.
H. Workman sent offerings of callas,
geraniums. German ivy, roses, petunias. |
and fuobsias; Mrs. HEAVIER. pepper
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