The arrangements made and making seem to point to a success greater at Vienna than at the previous Exposition in Paris. Probably no pleasanter journey, next summer, can be taken by an American tourist than to Vienna, for, undoubtedly, there will be a vast amount of material gathered from all parts of the world.

Special attention has been paid to the horticultural department, and some think it will be the most noteworthy horticultural exhibition ever known in Europe. There are twenty-four groups of plants of all descriptions, arranged both botanically, and also for practical or medicinal uses; and in the division for greenhouse plants, there are places for new plants by themselves, plants needing high culture, plants of ornamental habit, plants of singular form, alpine plants, climbers, plants for room decorations, window gardens, weeping trees, trees with colored leaves, plants for vases, etc., etc. There is enough at once to bewilder, amuse, and instruct.

Vienna Exposition #1

There was a quarter section of land appropriated, immediately in front of the Industrial Palace. You must understand that it had been a park, and had been held for that purpose for one hundred years, belonging to the crown, though the property of the people, and given entirely up to them for their use. The soil is what in this country is called bottom land, or the river valley land of the Danube.

The streets are sixty feet in width, and are lined with double rows of horse-chestnuts. Along these avenues are beer stands, and all the German people drink beer, but I never saw any of them intoxicated. This beautiful section was grandly presented by the architectural background.

I was pleased to see the introduction of so very many of our own trees, yet the beautiful tints that many of our trees take in autumn were not seen there. In the midst of all this is a beautiful lawn - and here we may take a lesson from the grass that was sown upon well-prepared ground - and the name of the person who prepared the mixture of seed that was sown was affixed upon the card. The ground was well prepared, but the thick sowing, and water plentifully applied, in a very short time made it green and beautiful; and while the soil was so loose that you might not walk upon it without sinking, the men went ahead with great shoes, like snow shoes, and cut the grass, and the women came after and gathered it up. The water was the great thing. Many beautiful fountains - very large - projected very high, and when a dash of wind came we frequently got a ducking.

Another beautiful feature was their five-fingered creeper, creeping about in the same bright color that it has in this country, and reminded me of home.

The Doctor gave a full description of the appearance of the various forms of the gardening landscapes and of the variegated beds of flowers and plants in all forms and colors, so that the listener could have almost looked down into the fine garden. He said the leaves of many of the plants were yellow, still there seemed to be to him little beauty in these, as they appeared in decline, but to him was nothing so beautiful as green, though it were in any shade. He traveled elsewhere in Europe, and found that the people were great lovers of plants and flowers, and frequently you could see a man with a bushel of earth on his back, and filled with plants, going from door to door, selling them; and everywhere, in almost every house, you might see plants and flowers.