Palaces and Courts of the Exposition by Juliet Helena Lumbard James
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One thousand California violets.
The shiny-leaved coprosma from Chili. Blue-flowered buddleia. Groups of pittosporum. Pampas grass from Brazil. Hundreds of daffodils (in March). The weeping willows. A great group on the north of erica, epacris, and cryptomeria. Across from the erica is the red-berried cotoneaster horizontalis. Near the columns on the north side by the Pool grows the purple agapanthus. The Catalina cherry is massed against the building on the north. The pink-flowered escallonia is found under the columns near the Pool. The orange-berried pyracantha cretaegus is seen in all its glory on the north. Heliotrope makes the air one of sweet perfume. Polygala, with pea-like blossom, is seen near the base of the columns. In the Pool have been put five hundred papyrus plants and five hundred Japanese water lilies. These are a few of the many wonderful blooms seen here. The vistas and reflections are ever new and beautiful from every turn of |
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