PARK AND CEMETERY. 502 
LANDSCAPE PLANS for a 3,000 ACRE RESIDENT PARK 
It seems strange that wide-awake 
real estate men do not oftener make 
adequate landscape plans for the de- 
velopment and beautifying of resi- 
dence sub-divisions, and opportunities 
for such little garden cities are es- 
pecially numerous in the Southwest, 
the homeseekers' country. 
With Isaiah’s prophetic words in 
our ears we wonder if the time will 
ever come when in America we shall 
hear the cry, “The land even now is 
too narrow by reason of the inhab- 
itants.” With the vast territory ly- 
ing to the south and west, with the 
ports open to immigrants and thous- 
ands flocking to our shores from 
all nations we must look forward to a 
time when the owner of a home may 
feel glad, for then the waste places 
and deserts as well as the forests and 
fertile lands will all be inhabited. 
When- that time comes it is not too 
much to expect that we may see a 
few adequately planned towns and 
suburbs. 
No place in America offers to the 
home seeker a greater return for his 
labor than does the southern part of 
the United States. Texas especially is 
the mecca of the investor and home 
seeker. In South Texas are vast 
tracts of productive, virgin soil where 
may be grown the fruits, flowers, 
palms and evergreens of California 
and Florida. There are many schemes 
in Texas for settlement by farmers 
and fruit growers, but a most 
unique and promising venture that is 
launched with carefully made plans 
adjoins the city of Houston. Unlike 
other town-site plans of the South, 
where the farmer may live in town, 
this is a place where the city men 
may live in the country or on a farm, 
and yet conduct business in a most 
prosperous and thriving city. 
With Galveston an immigrant port, 
but with no ground to offer to the 
new-comer, Houston has first bid and 
the best to offer, located as it is on 
the border between the great stretch 
of level prairie land to the west, and 
bordered on the east and south with 
a beautiful, rolling country, the latter 
thickly wooded and consequently 
well watered, for the rain fall here 
exceeds that of the Middle States. It 
is here that those of our own coun- 
try as well as the immigrants from 
foreign lands who are seeking homes 
may feel that their investment will 
bring both profit and comfort. 
Houston, "The Magnolia City," has 
many beautiful homes and is quite a 
railroad center. It has a population 
of close to one hundred thousand and 
has doubled its population in ten years. 
Its streets are bordered with shade 
trees of many varieties, the bananas, 
oranges, lemons, pomegranates, Jap- 
an persimmon, dates, figs, pecans, 
hickory, mulberry, blackberry, olean- 
ders, cape jessamine, jessamine, mag- 
nolia, palms, -crepe myrtle, laurels, 
sweet-gums, tulip trees, pine and ce- 
dars. Here many tropical and choice 
northern trees thrive side by side. 
With more than four hundred varie- 
ties of ornamental fruit, shade and nut 
trees, shrubs, vines and flowering 
plants, to select from, there is much 
with which to ornament the land. 
One progressive land owner is 
transforming 3,000 acres of a 10,000 
acre tract into a Garden Suburb where 
the city man who works in the office 
or store all day, may hie himself away 
to this beautiful spot with trolley 
cars for rapid transit and one of the 
most unique boulevards as a drive, 
thus making the thirty minutes be- 
tween the stuffy office and Bellaire 
and Westmoreland Farms a mere in- 
cident of pleasure in his daily life. 
Rising towards the west from Hous- 
ton lies the ground referred to; it 
has an elevation from thirty to fifty 
