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green-blessed England. There are greenhouses 

 and other floral luxuries on the place which is 

 on the whole a very charming one. Mr. Geo. 

 Morgan is Mr. Perkin's gardener, and we found 

 him one of a high degree of intelligence. 



Mr. Wade has also beautiful grounds; a drive 

 going completely around it. There are here 

 graperies and greenhouses, and a very comfort- 

 able looking gardener's house on the grounds. 

 The most pleasant of my recollections here are 

 some remarkably beautiful Hemlock, Spruce 

 and Pyrus japonica hedges, and I must not for- 

 get the amazingly healthy and beautifully 

 fruited cherry trees. Cleveland is, however, the 

 paradise of the cherry. Trees bending under 

 the weight of fruit are everywhere. Everybody 

 has them. Even the poorest looking yards 

 have one or two cherry trees. Somewhere near 

 here — perhaps on these grounds — I saw a mag- 

 nificent specimen of Pinus Mugho, and a large 

 golden willow, and I gave thaeks that some one 

 had varied the eternal I^Torway Spruce, and the 

 Maple, which however beautiful in themselves, 

 one does not want to meet for ever. Also some 

 person whose name I did not learn, had made 

 some break in the everlasting sameness, by 

 making belts of clipped Korways, box, and 

 some things which were pleasant to see by way 

 of change. 



The florists and nurserymen, though with no 

 great variety in their stock, seemed to be mostly 

 prosperous. I made hasty calls on Sked, Pad- 

 dock & Co., Harris Jaynes, G. Probeck, and 

 James Eadie, all of whom seemed prospering. 

 Since Dr. Beaumont's death, his nurseries have 

 not been pushed, and the much respected Mc- 

 intosh, though I found him hale and hearty for 

 his age, is pushing neither. Case, whose melan- 

 choly death has just been recorded, had a very 

 live nursery under Mr. Wiegel's management. 

 Few men did so much to benefit the city as Mr. 

 Case, and it is to be hoped his nurseries will 

 still go on and flourish. Mr. Eadie has about 

 ten acres in his nursery, which are worth proba- 

 bly about $2000 an acre at the present time, but 

 his chief lines are in growing plants for market, 

 wholesale and retail. The Fuchsia is the favor- 

 ite Cleveland pot plant, and of these Eadie 

 grows thousands. Mr. W. J. Gordon has one of 

 the finest private gardens and parks in Cleve- 

 land; but by a misunderstanding with some 

 friends as to time, I was disappointed in getting 

 to see it. 



The public parks and cemeteries of Cleveland 



are very interesting to a garden-loving stranger. 

 "Wade's Park is a beautiful piece of ground. 

 It is freely given to the city's use by the liberal 

 owner. It is chiefly natural woods with dense 

 undergrowth and very varied surface, with rocks 

 and rills, and log bridges, and other accessories 

 of the rural plentifully distributed through it. 

 Art has done much in carrying roads throngh it, 

 as well as spoiling the efiect by planting numer- 

 ous belts of Norway Spruces all along the roads, 

 for somehow a lot of JTorway Spruces in a wild 

 American oak and birch wood detracts from' 

 the great natural beauty which otherwise im- 

 presses one. Lake View Cemetery has a strik- 

 ing monument to the memory of Jeptha H. 

 "Wade. Like the best of Cleveland's progress- 

 ive citizens, he was the architect of his own for- 

 tune. From a telegraph operator to a million- 

 aire, but his millions chiefly spent in making 

 the fortunes of hundreds of others in the city. 

 This cemetery is remarkable for the beauty of 

 its undulating surface, and the landscape gar- 

 dening can scarcely be anything else but good ; 

 but the same defect, want of variety in the 

 planting exists here, as so often elsewhere. 

 Clump after clump of Scotch Pines meet one 

 everywhere, as if the company had bought out a 

 lot of them on some cheap speculation, and was 

 glad of some reasonable excuse to get rid of them. 

 Lake View Park— a sort of narrow drive along 

 the river bank.— is perhaps a quarter of mile long, 

 and aflbrds a pleasant spot for the pedestrian as 

 well as for the equestrian visitor. The drive 

 is low down towards the lake shore, the other 

 side from the road being elevated, and grass 

 kept neatly, and grottoes, clumps of shrubs, and 

 shade trees used to ornament it. The broad 

 promenade at the top, looking down on the gar- 

 dens, the carriages and horsemen, and the huge 

 lake below, has a very good effect indeed, and 

 renders it a very pleasant spot for the Summer 

 evening saunterer from the more busy haunts 

 of business, and " hum-drum " of every day life. 

 A short visit to the home of our old friend 

 Dr. Kirtland aff"ords an interesting reminiscence. 

 The pretty country house is still in the posses- 

 sion of Mrs. and Dr. Pease, his daughter and 

 son-in-law. The originals of his still famous 

 cherries are in many cases still standing, 

 and also are his magnolias and many other 

 rare things on which he prided himself so much. 

 Among the rare trees are some fine specimens 

 of the European Silver Fir, and in the borders 

 ferns and rare herbaceous plants. It was a 



