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We are very Impatiently expecting to hear from you, your Friend Luke has lost several Beaver Hatts already concerning the Expedition, he is so very zealous about it that he has turned Poor Boutier out of his House for saying he believed you would not Take the Place.
At the foot of the sharply ascending spires the slender shafts of which are carved with conventionalized vines and bear tapering flower urns as finials stand graceful garlands of girls. These pleasing spire bases, the attendants of Flora, are by Ernest Louis Boutier, a Parisian. They carry small baskets of flowers on their heads, a chain of flowers binds them.
Hanging lamp, in entrances, flower basket design; elaborate. Lamps, hanging along porches, simple design. Female figures at base of spires, by Eugene Louis Boutier; purely ornamental. Lavish decorations on building suggest variety and abundance of California horticulture.
He is so very zealous about it that he has turned poor Boutier out of his house for saying he believed you wouldn't take the Place. Damn his Blood, says Luke, let him be an Englishman or a Frenchman and not pretend to be an Englishman when he is a Frenchman in his Heart. If Drinking to your Success would take Cape Britton you must be in possession of it now, for it's a Standing Toast.
The Palace of Horticulture was designed by Bakewell and Brown of San Francisco. Sculpture. All of the sculpture here is purely decorative. The frieze at the base of each spire, consisting of heavy female figures modeled in pairs, is by E. L. Boutier. The ornamental Caryatides of the porches are by John Bateman. Palace of Fine Arts
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