Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-01-30
VERY TALL VASES.
Other Beautiful and Mammoth Floral
 Designs at the Worlds Fair.

Other Beautiful and Mammoth Floral
 Designs at the Worlds Fair.
 St Louis, Jan 3o.-Fianking the great floral clock on the north side of the Palace of Agriculture at the worlds fair will be the largest six vases ever built. As the clock, with it's dial 100 feet in diameter, appears to be constructed entirely of flowers, So will the vases appear to be built Of F1ora's most beautiful offerings.
 These giant vases. in the tops of which are oblong flower beds twelve feet by sixteen feet, are designed by MT Hadkinson. superintendent of 1ori- culture, and they stand on the slope of terrace thirty feet wide, having a slant of thirty degrees The vases assume the form of mammoth baskets of flowers, and so tall Is each basket that the handle rises several feet above the top Of the terrace. " =. ::
 The great baskets are built of rustic boughs. A pedestal is built of heavy timbers into the side of the terrace. The frame work is covered with earth, and this is sodded, so that 1t appears that the basket is growing right up out of the earth. While the frame is rustic, and appears attractive in itself, MT Hadkinson has planned throughout the great structure innumerable plants of iv1es, plain and variegated vincas. cobea scandens and numerous other clinging vines that in short while will chamber all over the surface of the vases and make them appear as though nature instead of man was the architect. The great handles. too, that reach high above, will afford the tenacious branches an ideal goal, and the rigid outlines of the timbers will lose their angles as the foliage is sus- pended naturally and gracefully from 1t. ~...
 With the great stretch of 550-feot terrace for an immediate background and with the beautiful northern facade of the Palace of Agriculture to com plete the picture, this array of the either side of the great floral clock, will indeed be strikingly beautiful and will form a fitting approach to the largest exposition building ever con structed to contain 8 single depart ment- a structure covering twenty three acres of ground.
 While the vases themselves will be built up of vines of various shades r' green, and the terrace behind is solid green, the vases are filled with won derful collection of blooming plants so arranged as to make it appear that the huge baskets are filled with mass of brightly colored cut flowers. Every day Of the exposition these vases wl.l be crowded with blossoms. As fast as the blooming period of one plant is finished fresh plants from the green houses will be installed. and thus each day there will be mass of beautiful flowers. When the exnosition opens on April 30 the vases will be filled with bright geraniums, petunas, salvias,. colerls, dracaena, crotons, caladiuns, etc, aand during the season every biooming flower of the land may be seen. ,,
 The work of installing the exhibits in the great worlds fair exhibit pal aces has begun.
 Russia's building at the worlds fair will cover an area S4x1OO feet. < tower 100 feet high will be feature The building will stand in the foreign section, east of the Administration building. fe .> s4 .s , 70. .Ysls .a
 The replica of Beauvoir. Jefferson Davis's old home, is nearing compile. ton at the worlds fair. The historic structure will be .Mississippi's state pavilion at the exposition.
 The frame work of the Inside Inn, the Worlds Fair hotel, with 2,5OO rooms, has been finished, and the staff covering is being applied. The hotel will be open for guests April 80, when the gates of the exposition open. .--E--> sr.;..aa.. < 7. T. ,
 In an exhibit that reached the Worlds fair recently from Idaho were some potatoes of unusual size. A-any weighed over four pounds each, and 1t required only from q dozen to fifteen to fill a bushel measure. These potatoes may be seen in the Idaho sec tion of the Palace of Agriculture
 Machinery Palace at the Worlds fair is one of the busiest spots imag inable. Because of the massiveness of the great engines and machinery be- ing placed there. very large force of workmen is employed. This is to in sure everything being in readiness April 30, so that President Roosevelt may touch the button and set all the Worlds fair machinery in motion
 Stanley Bois, Ceylons commissioner to the Worlds fair, has leased the handsome residence at 5146 Washing ton boulevard, in St., Louis. In this Aous@ MT bOiS Will eSCaDllsn Ills OIL cial residence during the exposition. His furniture will be brought from Ceylon and his own native servants will accompany him. 1t is under stood that. Mir Boiss expects to enter tain much during the exposition.
 Four great tim bers two feet square and no feet long, which are to be used in the Washington state building at the Worlds fair, reached St. Louis recently. The great length of the timbers caused the railroaus transporting them no little trouble t was necessary to use three cars to carry them. the weight being allowed to rest on the two end cars, the mid de car being an 'idler.' 5 = .-
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