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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
ESTABLISHED1890 
Devoted to the Improvement of Parks, 
Cemeteries. Public and Private Grounds 
Published on the 15th of the Month by 
R. J. HAIGHT 
324 Dearborn St., Chicago 
EDITORS 
John W. Weston O. H. Sample 
Subscription, .|1.00 a Year, -j 
Nurseries. Atlanta, Ga. ; illustrated cata- 
log. 
Fall of 1907 : wholesale catalog of the 
Waukegan Nurseries, Waukegan, 111. 
V aughan’s Seed Store, Chicago, illus- 
trated Autumn catalog, 1907. 
Chas. A. Green’s Nursery Co., Roch- 
ester. N. Y. : Fruit Book and catalog. 
1907. 
Henderson's Agricultural Seeds for 
fall sowing. 1907. Peter Henderson & 
Co.. New York. 
Isaac Hicks & Son, large-tree mov- 
ers of MYstbury Station, New York, 
send their handsome catalog, .“Trees 
for Long Island.” The illustrations 
are unusually fine and the text con- 
tains much suggestive matter. 
PARK NEWS 
(Continued from p. 195) 
lililes of road treated 3.41 
Total number of scjuare yards 
of roadway 67,434 
Total cost $4,494.43 
Average cost per square yard. $0.0666 
Gallons of Tarvia per square 
yard ' 0.4032 
Tons of stone screenings per 
yard 0.0147 
Detailed Cost Per Square Yard of 
Material and Labor: 
Tarvia $0.0262 
Stone screenings 0184 
Preparing roadway 0086 
Applying Tarvia 0057 
Applying screenings 0062 
Rolling 0047 
The results have been very satis- 
factor}-. A new, smooth surface has 
been formed over the base stone, 
which seems to be holding well; the 
dust nuisance has been abated, and 
in times of wet weather the road- 
ways are entirely free from mud. The 
only question remaining as to the 
value of this treatment to overcome 
the new conditions caused by in- 
creased motor car traffic are as to its 
durability, and whether the frosts of 
this climate will have any bad effects 
upon it. 
The total expenditures of the com- 
mission for the year was $600,663.67. 
The report of the landscape archi- 
tects, Olmsted Brothers, shows the 
preparation of five topographical 
maps, twenty studies, thirteen prelim- 
inary and general plans, twenty-three 
grading and construction plans, thir- 
teen planting and forestry plans, and 
nineteen reports. 
In a discussion of the revision of 
the charter of Greater New York, 
Mayor McClellan is reported in favor 
of having one Commissioner of Parks 
whom he would appoint and who 
should have supervision over the parks 
in all the boroughs, with a deputy in 
each borough. Under the present 
charter there are three commissioners, 
one for Manhattan and Richmond, one 
for Brooklyn and Queens and one for 
the Bronx, and it is obligatory on the 
Mayor to appoint the commissioner 
for Manhattan president of the Board. 
The difficulty of obtaining competent 
commissioners at the present salaries 
is shown particularly at this time in 
the Mayor’s failure to get the man 
whom he desires for Park Commis- 
sioner to succeed Moses Herman of 
the Borough of Manhattan, Only 
two candidates have appeared, neither 
of whom, it is understood, the Mayor 
will appoint. 
THE LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT 
(Conlinuecl from p. 201) 
The visual memory must be stored 
with beautiful things. Nature is a 
great storehouse of beautiful things, 
as well as of ugly things, so a lad 
should be brought up in a beautiful 
bit of country rather than amid long 
blocks of plain brick houses. But 
there is much in nature that is beau- 
tiful that cannot be used in the flor- 
ist’s work. Lichens and toad stools, 
for instance, include varieties having 
beautiful colors, yet they are not 
used in carpet bedding owing to prac- 
tical difficulties. Therefore the visual 
memory is stored by visiting gardens 
and exhibitions and by studying il- 
lustrations, horticultural books and 
trade catalogues. 
The selective faculty is trained by 
determining what is worth remem- 
bering. We must put some things in 
the front row of the memory, so to 
speak, where they can be availed of 
instantaneously. Other things are 
set behind and labeled by some bit of 
detail, a leaf or a bit of color or a 
word or a taste or smell or by name. 
For very many things that may be 
useful the memory must refer back 
to the cyclopedia, an indexed periodi- 
cal, a scrap book, so and so’s cata- 
logue, and so on. 
The visual memory is trained by 
repetition, by close application forced 
by the will power. It is aided by as- 
sociation with other sensations, by 
the sentiments, by novelty, by super- 
lative characteristics and so on. 
The imagination is based on mem- 
ory. We can imagine nothing that 
has not come into our minds through 
the senses or that is not due to some 
SAYS 
“IT’S A SIZZLER” 
The second day of September, 
Mr. William Rhodes of Leech- 
burg, Pa,, wrote for our catalog 
of Hot Bed Sash and Frames. 
At the bottom of the letter was 
this P. S. 
“Our No. 630 ‘Burnham’ Boiler is a SIZZLER. 
Talk about heating, why we had to keep the fire 
door open most of the time last winter to keep 
steam from getting too high. ’’ 
Now why is it a “sizzler”? — why a boiler of record breaking 
economy? This just printed catalog of ours, tells. Not in the 
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after point, exactly as you would want to know when putting your 
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