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v1 1 i i fl ,4 W-2-INDEPENDENT, PRESS-TELEGRAM in om 1 By DIANNE SMITH Staff Writer Patches and rolling meadows of lush green grass harmonize with the" surrounding horticulture montages. There are about 52,000 square feet of lawn throughout the park. Nearly 93 per cent of Disneyland's plant material is foreign to California, which means it has to be replaced about every two to three years, explained DuBois, who conducted one of the guided tours. 1 Southern California-may not have obvious seasonal changes, but Disneyland does, he added, noting that 800.000 bedding plants are transfered annually to bring about this change. fering refuge from the summer sun.

Largest of the varieties are the 75-foot pines ringing the parks perimeter. On a smaller scald, to keep many trees from growing too large and out-of-proportion to their surroundings in miniature settings, the landscapers spray a special growth retar dent on than, explained DuBois, a native of Belgium who came to the United States in 1951. included among the trees are Southern magnolias, Junipers, Monterey pines, birches, ashes, Carolina cherries, elms, acacias, rubber, plants, bamboos, palms, flowering pears, orchids and corals from South Africa. Du Bois also explained that Disney- 1 Disneylandscaplng put ltsbest foliage forward and gave visitors a be-hind-the-scenes look at its $3 million botanical gardens. Occasion was' Magic Kingdom's first annual Cinderella Festival.

During the three-day event, the park's landscape panorama became one of the major attraction of the Anaheim amusement center, along with four different' fashion shows, which previewed the latest spring and summer styles in keeping with the Cinderella theme. Each morning one of the women entering the -parlr was chosen Cinderella for a day, earning a selection of five fashions from the four landscaping for her own castle and 300 to her favorite charity. Each guest also received a Cinder ella Festival souvenir list-inf the various special activities and recipes for some of the parks more popular restaurant selections. Times for the guided tours were in- -eluded with explanations of how the botanic gardens are created and maintained. 5 WIESE TAKE the form of 2,500 red poinsettias at Christmas, clusters of gay spring flowers at Easter, bright colored blooms during the summer anti sweeps of fall hues after Labor Day.

land -doesnt grow any of its trees, plants or flowers, but imports them in bulk from various suppliers, stor ing them at the park nursery until transplant timp." in addition, there are 500 rose of varied kinds and colors. Greeting guests as they enter the park is the ever-smiling face of Mickey Mouse etched out of Alyssum and Satolinas, which are changed four times a year to insure freshness. i t. Among the more unusual foliage displays are 22 delicate, care-dr manding topiary shrubs, which decorate Che foreoourt of "Its A Small World in Fantasy land. Wiese bushes, which required three-to-five yean to develop, take the shape of fanciful Disney f.

INSIDE THE 72.6-acre park are 750 species of plants from 40 countries, more than 40,000 shrubs and -perenni-als plus 4,000 trees. In charge, of their 'care Is 38-man landscaping -department headed by Simon DuBois and Gunter Otto, both of whom have been at the facility since it opened in TREES PLAY a major role in much of the Disneylandscape, with more than .300 large shade types of- GRASS PLAYS an important part iir I 7 Disneylandscaping panorama, above, installeomeof themore than! square feet tif lush green aoch -used in the park. Exotic horticulture-' imported bom jungle regions around-ther! world forms five-acre wilderness of Adventurelands -Jungle Cruise CONCERNED ABOUT Conservation, Disneyland has salvaged several major trees which were scheduled for bulldozers. Here, a massive Phoenix Redmate is moved to ts-newhoma- inTomorrowland. i v4 I'M? J.

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