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PARK 



PARKINSONIA 



direct from the board, are employed an engineer, local 

 superintendents, gardeners, foremen, etc. The engineer 

 is generally an assistant of the city engineer, assigned 



temporarily to park work '"' n-w pa-k" i-e *o *-- 



acquired or plans are to be nudi for thtir development 

 a professional landscape architect is employed to advise 



1857-1868, special report ace 

 Park, 1858; Brooklyn, ISIw-: 

 panying plan of Prospect l';< 



iJuffal 187 



lS7y, 1880, 



pfei^ 



#4iil^^^^ 



fc^*^" 



1646. 







the board and to make plans, and is usually retained at 

 least in a consulting capacity during the period of con- 

 struction. Some large cities retain a consulting land- 

 scape architect permanently to advise them with regard 

 to qnf-^ti.iii= ..f iniiir. -vf-nient and maintenance affecting 



the ll..-l:'i ..! 1':. l.:i:'U, 



SI'ff' '. ' --tatistics of parks are almost 



unattaii 1.,^ ,H >,.mpanying incomplete compila- 



tion (srt LuuL I'l i'a;;i') was ma<le in 1897 by the secre- 

 tary of the Louisville Park Commission. Some items 

 are corrected to 1900. 



Bibliniiraphy. — "Park" in American Cyclopedia, En- 

 cyclopedia Americana, Johnson's Cyclopedia ; Park 

 Reports of the various cities, especially New York, 



-■ ' f-.iiio, report 

 ■^ utli ) irl:. 1>,I , M-i,iir;.l. report on 

 Mount U<)\al, with phin, 18X1. .See Pro- 

 (cediiit, American Social Science Asso- 

 iiiticn 18 '0, 1880; "Mass. Park Law," 

 tati printers, 1894; Proc. Amer. Park 

 md Outdi or Arts Assoc. 



F. L. Olmsted, Jr. 

 PARKIN SONIA (John Parkinson, 15G7- 

 11 _) 1 ndi n apothecary, author of tlie de- 

 li.httul I aradisus Terrestris and Thea- 

 iririi Botanicum). Leguminbsip. Seven 

 r s pecies of tropical trees or shrubs, 

 tt II arintd with short spines: Ivs. bi- 

 Iiiinite with 1 or'2 pairs of pinn»; the 

 common petiole short, often obsolete or 

 spinescent stipules minute or none: fls. 

 yellow or whitish, on slender pedicels in 

 short loose axillary or terminal racemes; 

 calyx ) parted, produced at base and 

 jointtd upon the pedicel; petals 5, clawed, 

 the upper one within and broader than the 

 rest somewhat cordate, the claw pubes- 

 cent and nectariferous on the inner side; 

 stamens 10, free, the upper one gibbous 

 outside: ovary several -ovuled, shortly 

 stipitate : pod compressed, 2-valved, lin- 

 ear to linear-oblong, more or less twisted: seeds com- 

 pressed, albuminous. Bot. Calif. 1:161. 



The dominant type, both in the wild and in cult., is 

 P. acitleata, the Jerusalem Thorn, which is probably a 

 native of America, but is naturalized or cult, in all tropi- 

 cal countries. Another species is S, African, 3 are 

 S. American, and the rest belong to the region between 

 Te.\as and S. Calif. P. anileatn is a thorny evergreen 

 tree with feathery drooping braiu-hes and handsome yel- 

 low fls.; it is admir;iMi- l'..r IiicIl-cs, thrives in the driest 

 places and can eiidin' -i.m. . ,,|,|. It has been cult, in 

 European couservai.irii -. Krim.- usually raised from im- 

 ported seeds, but it i- ^f ililli.-iilt .ulture. P. Torreyana, 

 though generally destitute of Ivs.. is known in northern 



83.43 1,053.13 



116 290.C 



St. Louis, Mo 



St. Paul. Minn. .. 

 San Francisco. Ca 

 Springfield. Mass. 



Toledo, Ohio 



Washingtor. I). C 

 Wilmington, Del. 



