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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
CONCRETE CURB and GUTTER 
In response to the inquiry of a cor- 
respondent about a concrete curb and 
gutter we present the following two 
contributions from men who speak 
with the authority of experience: 
"I do not consider concrete curbing 
or guttering appropriate in a rural 
park. On streets or boulevards, 
where all ejects are formal and sym- 
metrical, their use would be in keep- 
ing. For the edges of walks and 
drives in parks I prefer grass or nat- 
ural planting with branches of the 
shrubbery rather concealing the edge 
than otherwise, especially where the 
drives run through woodlands. This 
can be done even to the extent of 
permitting herbaceous plants to 
spring up or to be planted along the 
shrubbery lines at the edge of the 
road. The edges of drives and walks 
in parks, except where the grade ex- 
ceeds 3 per cent, do not need any gut- 
tering or protection from washing. 
Where the grade of the road exceeds 
3 per cent a gutter of granite or any 
other paving stone should be used. 
Or a gutter of concrete with coarse 
screenings of the same character as 
that of which the surface of the road 
is composed can be squeezed in when 
the concrete is still moist. In this 
way a gutter can be constructed 
which will appear to be a part of the 
macadam surface. Protection for the 
sides of walks, in parks where the 
grade is over 3 per cent, may be made 
by spreading a tar concrete for 
eighteen inches or two feet along the 
edge of the paths, and, while still soft, 
rolling in some of the material of 
which the surface of the walks is 
composed.” 
J. A. Pettigrew, 
Boston. Supt. of Parks. 
“The use of a combination curb and 
gutter of cement is largely a matter 
of personal feeling. For my part, 
though I have used such things oc- 
casionally, I do not think them ap- 
propriate excepting in small parks or 
private places where a high degree of 
maintenance is possible, and where, 
because of the cjuantity of traffic or 
other reasons it is desirable to mark 
the line of the road strongly. These 
curbs, excepting in geometrical forms, 
always look more or less prim and 
smug, and, unless carefully made and 
preserved, will emphasize a bad line 
that otherwise might escape notice. 
They are also expensive to construct. 
I would advise you to get the opinion 
of other landscape architects on this 
point, but think they would say about 
the same thing as I do.” 
Harold A. Caparn. 
New York. 
main unnoticed until it has accomp- 
lished a great deal of injury, says a 
writer in The Florists’ Review. For 
that reason it will be well, when 
spraying is under v.my, to give the 
trees and shrubs the benefit of the 
doubt by spraying everything that is 
in any way likely to be infested with 
this veritable scourge. 
It is by no means safe to rely on 
what has been accomplished in the 
destruction of the San Jose scale by 
the spraying done late in fall or in 
winter. The chances are that a suffi- 
cient number of these elusive and te- 
nacious creatures have escaped from 
former attempts at their destruction 
to multiply to such an extent as to 
cause serious damage at a later time, 
when vegetation is in such a state as 
to make the application of remedies 
difficult. 
There are many preparations of 
more or less efficacy for destroying 
San Jose scale, but it is perhaps on 
the whole just as well to use Scale- 
cide. It is fully as effective as any 
other preparation and it is easily ob- 
tainable in condition for immediate 
use by simply adding water. The mis- 
takes liable to be made in the prep- 
aration of other mixtures often cause 
injury to trees, or cause the mixtures 
to be ineffective. 
Nebraska Forestry Association 
At the recent annual meeting of the 
Park and Forestry Association of Ne- 
braska held in Lincoln, an interesting 
program was given. E. C. Bishop, Dep- 
uty Superintendent of Public Instruc- 
tion, spoke of planting and caring for 
trees on school grounds. E. F. Ste- 
phens of Crete, the veteran tree planter 
of Nebraska, spoke of the best varieties 
of trees for planting in the West Prof. 
Chas. E. Bessey gave a very fine paper 
on the different kinds of poplars and 
emphasized the importance of planting 
the Norwa 3 ^ poplar which is now so 
highly recommended by the Forestry De- 
partment. According to Prof. Bessey, 
this should be called Populus Laurifolia. 
In the discussion connected with this 
tree, it was decided that it was the most 
rapid growing of any tree in the north- 
ern states. Thousands have been plant- 
ed at the York Experiment Station and 
their growth was something wonderful. 
TREES and TREE PLANTING 
Street Trees in Cleveland 
City Forester John Boddy, of Cleve- 
land, O., has succeeded in getting the 
measures for the protection of street 
trees that were noted in our January 
issue, recommended for passage by 
the city council committees and it is 
expected that the ordinances will be- 
come law. 
The ordinances recommended pro- 
vide a maximum penalty of $100 for 
each tree mutilated or trimmed with- 
out a permit from the city forester. 
Mr. Boddy hopes that this will lead 
to other and broader steps for civic 
beauty. Removal of useless structures 
and unsightly objects, artistic design 
of utilities placed along the streets. 
the planting of vines on factory walls, 
the appointment of a civic art com- 
mission — these are some of the re- 
forms which Mr. Boddy hopes to ac- 
complish. 
Behind Mr. Boddy in active support 
of the measures he advocates is the 
board of public service. To help him 
in protecting the trees along city 
streets from mutilation and to enable 
him to check the damage done to trees 
by wires, the board has ordered that 
all permits granted to place telephone 
or other wires in Cleveland must bear 
his approval. 
Spraying for San Jose Scale 
It is sometimes hard to discern San 
Jose scale, and its presence may re- 
