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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
voting his time as consulting engineer 
to solving problems in cemetery man- 
agement. Mr. Torrey’s address is 1 
Montgomery St., Jersey City, N. J. 
OBITUARY 
H. J. Diering, for thirty-seven years 
superintendent of Woodlawn Ceme- 
tery, New York City, died at his home 
April 1.5. 1908, in his 80th year. 
Mr. Diering 'retired to private life in 
1901, when he was succeeded by his 
son, Fred. R. Diering, the present 
president of the Association of Ameri- 
can Cemetery Superintendents. Mr. 
Diering, Sr., became a member of the 
association in 1889, and for many 
years was quite regular in attending 
the annual conventions. 
CITY PARK SYSTEMS 
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ruined by flqwer beds, its greensward 
is injured by excessive tramping or 
by short-cut paths being allowed to 
1)e worn in it and its naturalness is 
destroyed by grading it to a flatness 
not characteristic of the surrounding 
topography, or by harsh obvious arti- 
ficial turf terraces, or by planting reg- 
ular rows of trees along its borders. 
If a congregating or picnicing grove 
is to be grown or kept, its trees are 
apt to be planted or allowed to re- 
main so close together, or the 
branches are permitted to hang so 
low that turf cannot be successfully 
maintained owing to the dense shade 
and to the multiplicity of tree roots 
upon or near the surface of ' the 
ground. 
If a wild wood is to be preserved 
or created tlie bushy undergrowth 
must be retained or planted else the 
wood can scarcely look natural, yet 
how almost invariably the beautiful 
wild undergrowth is destroyed at the 
earliest opportunity by those in charge 
of parks. 
If there is to be a sheet of water 
in a park intended to be in a natural- 
istic style, no pains should be spared 
to make the water area natural look- 
ing in location, outline, shores and 
bordering plantations. 
It is to be regretted that the neces- 
sity for general plans in parks is not 
appreciated by most people as is the 
necessity for a general plan for city 
hall or court house. Yet a park is apt 
to include more naturally incongruous 
purposes and objects than a city hall. 
It almost never happens that a whole 
park exists, like an artist's painting, 
solely to be looked at, yet by far the 
greater portion of every park exists 
primarily for landscape beauty. If 
large portions can be used for recrea- 
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