Los Angeles herald., 1890-11-06
CHRYSANTHEMUMS.
A ROYAL DISPLAY OF THE JAP
ANESE ROSE.
A Week of Rare Beauty in This City
Which has Pleased the Multitudes OF
People.

The Chrysanthemum fair now in
progress at Armory hall is one of the
leading attractions of the city. Only
the popular love of the beautiful could
have drawn such an attendance in the
midst of the recent political excitement.
Each evening has Deen a combination
of beautiful flowers, beautifully grouped
and artistically handicapped, while the
finest instrumental music, of piano,
guitar, banjo, flute. violin and Arend's
orchestra foated soft, dreamy strains of
music through the air. Beautiful
women and handsome men, richly
dressed, wandering through the may
walks in the midst of flowers, sparkling
the electric light from millions of drops
of crystal water freshly sprayed over the
plants, gave scene of beauty such as
poets and the best writers of romance
have in vain tried to describe.
No one can estimate the ennobling and
uplifting effort of such scene. In the
midst of This home of love and beauty,
no one would think of evil to his fellow
man. The most refined sentiment is
called out and man becomes a noble,
purer being.
From no point in the hall does one
see in unbroken line to the far side.
Flowers bank here in masses, there in
scattering flowers, everywhere projected
in mass on the back ground.
One large pyramid of pure white Sc
lected plants towers up above the crowd
like a mass OF snow, typical of our snow
clad mountain peaks. Near by another
somewhat smaller pyramid is found of
solid gold color, symbol of our golden
wealth. To the left is similar pyra-
mid of royal purple and lilac from the
flower prosperity, well showing the pros
perity OF Southern California. Two
other pyramids of rich plants fill out the
central clusters of this wonderful flower.
On all sides are massive heaps of potted
signs. The Redondo ship, in chrysan-
themum, is % feet long, it's masts over
16 feet high. 1t is safely anchored at a
flower wharf, in sea of flowers, with
miniature cars ready to carry away the
freight.
The Raymond display is one of rare
beauty, carefully potted and trained in
snowy style. Mr.. Th. Rouninet makes
a lovely display of rare plants. Mr..
Jeffries has an exhibit of beautiful seed
lings, trained up to height of seven
feet.
From the gallery the view, as whole,
of the landscape is simply lovely. The
japanese gardeners, who raised the
ladies' exhibit of some 300 potted
plants, have restored to them the orig
inal Japanese names with the English
translation. The names are very sug
gestive. The Mad Lion" is large
flower with a central button, and long
shaggy petals thrown forward over the
button center, giving strong impress
sion of an enraged lion, with his erect
name thrown forward over his head.
The 'Falling STAR" meteor, is large
pale star color, with a dense central nu
cleus, and long irregular spraying pc
tails, at once calling to mind the flying
meteor. The Eagles Talons," has
large, long, sharp-pointed petals curved
and grouped, recalling the appearance
of an eagles talons in the act of grasp
ing its prey. The restoring of the orig
inal names meets with public favor.
The only criticism being from florists,
who are not certain as to the correctness
OF the name, and whose catalogue of
American names is rendered useless by
the Japanese nomenclature.