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 the Pool.
Palace of Horticulture
Architects - Bakewell and Brown of San Francisco.
Architecture - Byzantine in the arrangement of the domes (the mosque of Ahmed I of Constantinople being the inspiration) and in the use of tall finials suggesting minarets, but quite French in its ornamentation.
The building is one of great beauty and is considered one of the finest exhibit palaces ever erected at any exposition.
The ornamentation below the dome is by Boutier.