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THE GARDENERS' MONTHLY, 



[December, 



" It is with great pleasure I come here in the practical gardeners who gathered to the number 

 name of the Queen, my Mother, to declare this of two hundred and fifty. Their part will be 

 beautiful park open, the key oi which I now hand more interesting to readers of your Monthly, and 

 to the Lord Provost. I am convinced that Miss is worthy of detail. 



Duthie's very generous gift will greatly conduce The procession to the opening of the park was 

 to the health of her fellow citizens." I headed by a magnificent floral design made and 



To detail the park would no doubt be very in- fitted on to a lorry (low wagon) drawn by six 



teresting, but I send a plan which has been kindly powerful horses. The frame was twelve feet high, 



sent me. The cost of the gift will give some When the decorations were complete it stood 



idea of its grandeur. What I want more especially fifteen. The frame was designed with arches and 



to show is the part which was taken in it by the festoons ending at the apex in a coronet. On each 



