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stable manure. We topdress with the 

 wood ashes about the first of November, 

 and have excellent success by doing this." 



Orass v. gravel paths.— In the older 

 ]iarts of the cemetery narrow gravel paths 

 used to run hither and thither wherever 

 it was desirable to get to on foot, thus 

 giving the landscape a needlessly cut up, 

 patchy appearance. But modern ideas 

 repudiate these little gravel roads, as 

 heme more than needless, for unless they 

 are kept neatly edged, clean, smooth and 

 nicely gravelled they give an ill-kempt 

 littery appearance to the grounds. Mr. 

 Barker favors filling them up level with 

 the lawn and sowing them with grass so 

 as to form part of the lawn; in this way 

 they can be kept even, smooth, clean and 

 well mown, and so far as a pathway is 

 concerned serve every purpose that the 

 old gravel walk would, in fact the grass 

 is better, for it permits of more people 

 walking abreast than the gravel paths 

 would allow. In proof of this he called 

 our attention to several old gravel path- 

 ways that had been filled up and grassed 

 over, and certainly the grass was a 

 marked improvement over the gravel. 

 This point is as pertinent in the case ol 

 jfrivate gardens as in cemeteries, for one 

 of the commonest mistakes a person is 

 apt to commit in planning a garden is to 

 cut out too many walks in it. 



The greenhouses consist of a group of 

 spacious and serviceable Lord & Burn- 

 ham ranges. Mr. Barker spoke highly in 

 their praise, they are light, roomy, per- 

 fectly tight and easily heated. In run- 

 ning a greenhouse he was emphatic in 

 advising plenty of heating pipes. With 

 |)1 nty of pipes there is no need of rushing 

 the fire to keep the water quite hot; the 

 more the pipes the less driving of fires, 

 the milder and better the heat, and the 

 less coal is consumed and the less labor is 

 taken up in stoking. 



Crotons and Acalyphas as Bedding 

 Plants.— Pointing to a bench of these 

 Mr. Barker remarked that of all the ten- 

 der colored leaved plants they use out of 

 doors in summer the crotons and acaly- 

 ])has give them the most satisfaction, 

 they grow well and color beautifully and 

 are not an easy prey to changes ot 

 weather. 



the botanical garden, CAMBRIDGE 



Is the botanical garden belonging to 

 Harvard University and is right across 

 the street from the Observatory and be- 

 tween ten and fifteen minutes' walk from 

 the college buildings. It contains a vast 

 collection of hardy plants arranged in 

 botanical order and sequence, and a large 

 variety of tender plants in the green- 

 houses. Dr. G. L. Goodale, the professor 

 of botany, s the Director of the garden 

 and Mr. K. Cameron the superintendent. 

 In one of the warm greenhouses we 

 noticed an unusually large and well- 

 leaved specimen of the Madagascar lace 

 leaf plant iOuvirandra fenestralis) in fine 

 form and bloom. It is an acjuatic with a 

 rosette of broad leaves which are a net- 

 work of veuation open as a sieve. 

 Within the garden are the botanical 

 library and herbariumbuildirig; and what 

 were the botanical museum and lecture 

 rooms, also the residence of Mrs. Gray, 

 the widow of the late Dr. AsaGraj'. Both 

 the herbarium and botanical library are 

 the fullest and most complete of their 

 kind in the country. 



THE liOTANICAL LABORATORIES, LECTURE 

 ROOM AND MUSEUM 



Used to be in the rooms in the botanical 



garden, but since a few \-ears a large 



building for these departments has been 



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