PARK AND CEMETERY.. 
344. 
QUICK RESULTS in PLANTING HOME GROUNDS 
There was a time when we planted 
trees and waited for them to grow and 
our children enjoyed the shade when we 
were gone, but toda}', with the aid of 
the landscape architect, the up-to-date 
tree planting devices and a good nur- 
sery or a forest to draw on, one can 
make wonderful transformations in a 
few years time and often in a few 
months’ time. 
The accompanying photos show the 
“Before and After" of such a transfor- 
mation, on the home grounds of Mr. E. 
H. L. Tompson, of Kansas City, Mo., 
located on Armour boulevard, at Ken- 
wood avenue. 
The plans for this work were pre- 
pared by Sid. J. Hare, landscape archi- 
MOVING A HARD MAPLE. 
Fourteen Inches in Diameter. 
age, spring, summer, fall and winter ef- 
fects of flower, foliage, bark, fruit, or 
form, that showed a taste not found in 
the “Pepper and Salt'"' distribution of 
plants commonly found where sale of 
plants is more of an object to the planter 
than the artistic result of each group and 
the final result as a whole. 
Our illustrations show before and af- 
ter views of the grounds and the pro- 
gress of the mo\ing of a hard maple 
fourteen inches in diameter, which is 
shown in the last picture two years after 
it was established on the grounds. Kote 
alscj in this picture how the planting 
between the walk and the curb, line gives 
the effect of adding seventeen feet to the 
width of the grounds. 
KANSAS CITY HOME GROUNDS IN 1905. THE SAME GROUNDS IN 190.1. 
Cross Shows the Tree Being- Mover! in I.'pper Picture. 
STREET TREES for CINCINNATI 
t'ect, Kansas City, Mo., who also had 
charge of the improvements. 
The plans were accompanied with a 
list of trees and shrubs numbered ac- 
cording to the numbers shown on a plan, 
thus making it an easy matter for the 
owners to identify each as it blos- 
somed, as more than half the pleasure 
of having plants is to be able to tell 
our friends what they are. 
Planted in groups of a kind, with 
just an additional plant or two to add 
emphasis to some characteristics that 
they wished to bring to notice, each 
group had its distinctive features and in 
all there was a continuation of bloom, 
harmony of color, and contrast in foli- 
City Forester Adolph Lene, of Cin- 
cinnati, is -endeavoring to arouse local 
sentiment for giving the park depart- 
ment absolute control over the street 
trees. He believes that the park depart- 
ment should have arbitrary power to 
designate the species of trees which 
shall be planted and the position in 
which they shall be placed. 
Park Superintendent Rodgers is also 
an advocate of the plan suggested by Dr. 
Leue and it is probable that legislation 
may be asked to give the park depart- 
ment power to supervise all street tree 
planting. Under Superintendent Rod- 
gers' supervision, and at the request of 
a number of the suburban improvement 
associations. Dr. Leue has prepared a 
list of trees which the department rcc- 
emmends as the most suitable for street 
and roadside planting. In the list which 
is given below, trees which grow front 
.)() to 80 feet in height are designated 
by the numeral ( T. ) and those 2.5 to .")(> 
feet high by (H.). 
1. Acer dasycarpuiii. Silver-leaf ma- 
ple (L), is of rapid growth, but brittle, 
and is often broken by heavy winds. 
2. .deer platauoidcs. Norway maple 
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