Waterbury Democrat., 1901-10-03
OCTOBER FLOWERS.


 Gardens of the City of Light Are One of It's Most Attractive Features. Artistic Scenes Which the Lover of Beaaty Should Not Fail to See.
 The Pan-American is one of the greatest flower shows that ever was, but there are so many other things in which 1t Is great that the rarity and beauty of its floral features are per- haps apt to be overlooked. If people would take more time to allow the ar- tistic and beautiful features of the Ex- position to impress their senses and permeate their inmost being instead of racing from one part of the grounds to another, trying to see every exhibit and every show on the Midway, they would go home feeling greater benefit from their stay in the Rainbow City.
 The Pan-American is full of gardens which tempt the visitor to rest awhile and drink in the beauties of nature. It may seem surprising that in the month of October there are flowers worth looking at, but such is the fact. The rains of the past few weeks have kept the landscape as fresh and beautiful as in May and June, and as one flower goes out of the scene another takes its place. On opening day the hyacinths filled the air with their dainty fra grance, in June tulips lifted their proud heads, later in the monthof brides and sweet girl graduates came roses, with their rich perfume, and as the summer passed the other flowers in their sea- son sprang up as if by magic to take ho Yl1aa nf iol, ho <J,ai, blosSoming and served their turn in the entertainment of the visitors to the City of Light. And now one sees the tall canna. the gay geranium and such old fashioned flowers as grandmother's garden had-the phlox, the pink. the begonia, the petunia and other posies which are no less beautiful because they do not happen to be novel.
 In entering the grounds by the Elm. wood gate visitors pass two tall and curious looking trees. which perhaps few in their anxiety to reach the heart of the Exposition stop to notice. If they realized that they were century plants just budding. a thing which, as all know, century plants only do once in long, long time, they would doubt
 
 and wondering gaze. It is a sight which one cannot see very often any where else. One of these century plants Is nearly forty feet in height.
 The Rose Gardens around the Wom- ans building, having for their back ground the outlines of the Spanish renaissance Buildings about the main court and the Electric Tower looming up at its north end, with the Mirror Lakes and the Triumphal Bridge and the groups of statuary abounding, form scene whose artistic aspect must ap- peal to even the least aesthetic visitor. The cannas are very effective decora- tive plants, with their tall leaves in green and red and brown. A rich canna one sees here is named Governor Roosevelt. It would seem appropriate now to change it's name to President Roosevelt.
 On the opposite side of the Tri- umphal Bridge is the Wooded Island. and here one roams amid old fashioned flowers, growing as though they. had sprung up there all by themselves with out any assistaAce from the landscape gardener and his corps of assistants. But of course that is not the case. The studied carelessness of the gardening of this island is only one of tho pretty deceits employed to produce the iri- pression that it Is all the work of Moth CT Nature herself.
 Have you seen the fairylike effects, in the garden about the Fountain of Abundance at night? It is one of the new things. This small garden is very beautiful by day, and at night electric lights of different colors have been hid-, den among the flowers and blanks, so that one sees the surface of the ground dotted with these little spots of light, bringing out the beauty of the flowers, and all forming a scene impossible to describe, but very charming indeed to witness. It is quite a pretty surprise even to old Pan-American visitors.
 Did you ever notice in crossing the Court of Lilies. south of the Machinery building, a heavy vapor arising from ghe basin in the center of that court? Sometimes it has so much the appear ance of smoke that people think. some thing must be afire in the garden, but 1t is only the steam or vapor created by the heating of the water in that ba- sin for the benefit of the tropical lilies which grow therein. These lilies, which are known as the Victoria Regia, have enormous leaves, some of them three feet in diameter.
 Other gardens where there are f1ow- CTS in bloom during this month of Oc- tober are those in front of the United States Government building and the Horticulture group, where the gay ge- raniums and sweet petunias contrast their colors with the green flags grow ing in the basin and with the white statuary disposed along their slopes.
 There was floral fete at the Exposi- tion during the first week of October, and this in its way, of course, was an affair of much beauty and magnifi- cence; but, as matter of fact, there have been floral fetes at the Pan-Amer- ican since opening day.
 The excitement incident to travelling and change of food and water often brings on diarrhoea, and for this rea- son no one should leave home without