. The San Diego garden fair; personal impressions of the architecture, sculpture, horticulture, color scheme & other aesthetic aspects of the Panama California International Exposition . tself is almost devoid of aquaticplant life, in contrast with its adjoining neighborthe Lagunita, which continues the pool, beingreally only a smaller part of it on the other sideof the east and west axis of the Botanical Gardenin front of the Botanical Building. The Lagu-nita is alive with the growth of all sorts ofNymphcea. Lilies of all colors have found herea congenial place, sending forth their best flowe
. The San Diego garden fair; personal impressions of the architecture, sculpture, horticulture, color scheme & other aesthetic aspects of the Panama California International Exposition . tself is almost devoid of aquaticplant life, in contrast with its adjoining neighborthe Lagunita, which continues the pool, beingreally only a smaller part of it on the other sideof the east and west axis of the Botanical Gardenin front of the Botanical Building. The Lagu-nita is alive with the growth of all sorts ofNymphcea. Lilies of all colors have found herea congenial place, sending forth their best flowereffects. There is the pure white with yellowcenter, the pure yellow, the light and dark pink,ranging into darker reds. Pale and dark purpleare also in evidence, and one concludes oncemore that as soon as one has made the reassuringdiscovery that there is one plant which occursin one color only, in pure white, one has to learnthat natures playfulness will not tolerate suchlimited range of color in one flower. TheLagunita is full of goldfish which thrive underthe sheltering shades of the expansive leaves ofthe mysterious pond-lilies. Before entering the Botanical Building, two[70]. THE FOOD PRODUCTS BUILDING, SEEN FROM THE REAR OF THESOUTHERN CALIFORNIA COUNTIES BUILDING THE GARDEN ASPECTSfountain bowls at either end of the central pathbecome increasingly interesting, largely by theirgrotesquely shaped Baroque fountain Pan motif is here used once more, in aquadrangle combination of the grinning gro-tesqueness of the ruler of buUrushes and only strictly classic bit of architecture hasonce more been used in the pergola at the westend. It is the same as in the Montezuma Gar-den and it arouses curiosity again on account ofits strictly Greek note. The Botanical Buildingresolves itself into a real joke. One imme-diately discovers that the raison detre for mostBotanical buildings does not exist here. Oneobserves that there is no difference whateverbetween the luxuri
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