PARK AND CEMETERY. 
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STREET TREES IN WINTER, WASHINGTON, D. C. 
Uniform planting of double row of sidewalk trees. 
Now all these larger reservations have 
been more or less highly improved with 
plantings of trees, shrubs and flowers, 
and are traversed with good roads and 
walks on as nearly direct lines of 
travel through them as a proper pre- 
servation of park and landscape charac- 
ter would permit. The old canal and 
its basins have been filled. The re- 
claimed area thus gained was added to 
the park grounds of the Mall and is 
now part of their lawn, road, and walk 
surfaces. The unsightly old Tiber 
Creek has been arched over, and the 
sewage of the city is now emptied into 
the Potomac river on its outskirts. 
Thirty-five years ago the city parks 
contained but four statues — the colos- 
sal marble statue of Washington, exe- 
cuted in Italy by Greenough and erec- 
ted in the Capitol grounds in 1841 ; a 
corroded, poor copper or bronze statue 
of President Thomas Jefferson, located 
in the center of the plat on the north 
front of the White House, and which 
was subseciuently removed to the Capi- 
tol : an equestrian statue of Gen. An- 
drew Jackson, cast from brass cannon 
captured by Gen. Jackson in his south- 
ern campaigns and erected by Clark 
Mills in Lafayette Park in 1853 (this 
was the first equestrian statue cast in 
the United States), and an equestrian 
statue representing Gen. Washington at 
the battle of Princeton, erected in 
Washington Circle by Clark Mills in 
1860. 
At the present time the city parks and 
park places are adorned with twenty- 
nine statues, comprising equestrian, pe- 
destrian and statuary groups, possessing 
historic interest and sculptural beauty. 
The work now in progress and fairly 
well advanced in the creation of a Po- 
tomac Park and the further improve- 
ments in contemplation by the officer 
now in charge of public buildings and 
grounds are a great onward step in 
AVashington’s park development, but it 
will not stop even there. The Memor- 
ial bridge will span the Potomac, and 
the completed park system of the future 
wull be amplified and extended to both 
sides of the river, with the blue hills 
of Virginia for a background, and will 
also embrace the valley of Rock Creek 
and the two parks now located there. 
The best examples of intelligent tree 
planting and care in any of the large 
cities of the United States, arc also 
generally admitted to be found in 
Washington, where the authorities long 
ago made a business of the matter and 
under the guidance of a well selected 
committee had the work done, not by 
disjointed individual action and per- 
sonal caprice, but by the corporation. As 
a consequence we see long avenues 
made in each instance of trees all of the 
same' kind, all equally and properly 
spaced and all at the same distance 
from the sidewalks or curbing. There 
is variety enough for each street has its 
STREET INTERSECTION AT DUPONT CIRCLE, WASHINGTON, D. C. 
Typical convergence of .streets on a circular park. Note regularit.v of tree i)Ianting. 
