Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-04-29
PARADISE RECAINED.
Luscious Fruits and Fragrant Flow CTS Make Up RewiIderina Siaht


 St Louis, April 29.-Fruits and fow- CTS, of all the colors of the rainbow and giving forth all the perfume known
 10 man, charm the senses of sight and 1 smell in the Palace of Horticulture. It 1 is favorite resort for the thousands
 of visitors to the greatest of all world g | fairs
 On certain days the sense of taste will also receive it's due attention, for then fruits of the tropics and fruits of the temperate zones will be given
 away and teeth will sink into mellow i lusciousness, gathered for the occasion
 from many parts of the world. This palace stands on the brow of q l hill south of the great Palace of Agri- culture, of which it is satellite. It floor, on which are the fruit tables and the elaborate exhibit booths erected by foreign countries and states of the 1 Union; a large conservatory, artificial l ly heated during cold weather, where
 III live the most tender of plants, sucn
 as have been brought from the iungles l of Brazil and Africa; and a recess be- low the grade of the main floor, which ! i'll turn is divided into sections; one oc- cupied by the implements used in hor- tieulture, another by cut flowers that are in season, and the third by an api- ary exhibit.
 It may seem incongruous that honey
 and honey makers should have their
 home ill this palace, but when one gives the subject thought different opinion is formed For the sweet sub stance is all drawn from fruits and flowers, the little creatures that suck it being only the agents in it's forma- ton. So there, in the recess, are hun
 dreds of thousands of bees, and you
 can watch them at work behind the glass doors. building their miniature l catacombs. while through anertures in the wall they are permitted to fly where they wish throughout the fair site and gather material for storage in the combs.
 The tools of horticulture are those that are used in spraying trees, in grating and in carrying forward deli cate operations of arboreal surgery. They illustrate the great development in this husbandry.
 One of the most attractive exhibits
 in any of the palaces, and an exhibit that has the additional attraction of
 being continually changing is that of the cut flowers Every week througI- out all the seven months there will be a different display in the center of this recess portion of horticulture and onc can view it's beauties from the main
 floor which will serve as a promenade balcony. Commencing with spring yio- let's. the growers will show everything in their proper season until the display
 closes i'll a blaze of golden glory-the great chrysanthemum show of Noyem- Der, sight never before witnessed at any exposition, for none has remained open long enough for that purpose.
 Missouri has erected the largest pa
 vilion on the main floor of HorticuI- ture and Illinois is next in size. while nearly all the other states and terri tories have created magnificent booths
 Within these enclosures. arranged on tables, are the fruits of the particular section. fruits that surprise one by their size and color, for they represent the special growths brought to perfec- ton for this yert event. after years ot care. For instance, those apples in the Missouri section are the result of pro- cess of grating and nursing which was commenced long before the first stake
 NdS uFiNell, dHu lHOSc OEahsen "elG planned when q natural forest grew
 where the palace that is their home now stands.
 A step carries you into the region of the tropics: pass through door into the great conservatory and you can readily imagine yourself in the country through which flows the mighty Ana zon Palms rear their heads to almost touch tho ceiling. which is nearly hundred feet from the floor; the glossy leaves of rubber trees glisten in the light; tree ferns. taller than man. are massed ill jungle profusion and on the
 bosom of lake rest lilies of the great rivers and lotuses Of the Nile.