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any of the large buildings of the city 
one can follow with a field glass the 
progress of every carriage or auto. 
What a delightful race track this will 
be when completed! 
The proposition to issue bonds for 
this great system was put before the 
voters April 27 and carried by a ma- 
jority of about two to one. With the 
same promptness and energy that the 
movement has been launched we may 
now expect to see the dirt fly. 
THE PROTECTION OF SHORE 
FRONTS 
The ouilding of stone walls, piling 
or crib work to protect the shores of 
lakes or ponds is a costly undertak- 
ing. There are manj^ places along the 
shores of the lakes where there is but 
little wave wash and which could be 
efficiently and economically protected 
by artificial plant growth. As a rule, 
the best protection is afforded by the 
judicious planting of moisture loving 
herbaceous plants which grow wild 
in the vicinity. Native plants almost 
invariably do better than those 
brought from a distance. Prof. Sar- 
gent says: “Small plants may be 
moved from their native habitat and 
planted near the margin of the pond, 
and some of their branches may be 
bent over on each side and layered 
deeply, and in this way a mass of 
plants would be speedily obtained. Or 
cuttings from one to two feet long 
may be taken in the autumn or spring. 
These cuttings should have their 
lower ends shoved ten to twelve 
inches into the soil. They may be 
planted pretty thickly together, as not 
all of them are likely to grow. Cut- 
tings of some of the foreign species 
of Willow, like the Basket Willow, 
form roots more readily than some of 
our indigenous species. Of course, 
cuttings are better than seeds. 
“Probably no better shrubby Wil- 
lows could be selected for this pur- 
pose than some of the native species 
which may be found in the local 
swamps and wet places. The narrow- 
leaved Silky Willow, Salix sericea; 
the Petioled Willow, S. petiolaris, and 
the Heart-leaved Willow, S. cordata, 
are among the best for such use. The 
Glaucous Willow, S. discolor, will 
also thrive in such situations, but it 
grows taller than the other species.” 
Besides the Willows, Alders may 
be found a good protection for the 
banks of ponds in some situations; 
and our native Button-bush, Cepha- 
lanthus occidentalis, will thrive and 
hold the soil in places so wet and 
boggy that even Willows and Alders 
will not grow. The way to assured 
success from plantings of this char- 
acter is to study the undisturbed nat- 
ural banks of a lake in the same 
region, noting the plants that are 
found associated together in such sit- 
uations and then reproducing, as far 
as possible, the effects produced in 
nature. Lester C. Griffith. 
REMARKABLE ANIMAL SCULPTURE at NEW YORK ZOO 
In the Zoological Garden in Bronx Park, New York- 
City, was lately completed a series of very remarkable 
buildings and decorative sculpture which distinguish 
this institution from all others in the world, and house a 
remarkably complete zoo. Never before have the unfor- 
tunate bipeds and quadrupeds in captivity been so well 
lodged, so well policed and sanitated, and never have 
their residences been so copiously adorned with their 
sculptured forms. The architects, formerly Messrs. 
Heins and La Farge, and now the surviving partner, Mr. 
Grant La Farge, son of the eminent painter, and the 
three official sculptors, Messrs. A. P. Proctor, Eli Harvey 
and G. R. Knight, have contrived to create a handsome 
but somewhat bizarre architectonic presentation which 
may be said to suggest well enough the actual situation — 
the gaiety and dignity appropriate to the handsome hous- 
ing of a great popular museum and the strange character 
of the exhibts. 
For those on the great Lion House, said to be the 
largest and finest of its kind in the world, it was thought 
by some of the members of the society’s committee on 
buildings that it would be inexpedient to look for native 
animal sculptors of sufficient talent and experience, in 
modeling the feline, and it was proposed to set up at 
the main entrances reproductions of certain of Barye’s 
lions. But the work of Mr. Eli Harvey, pupil of Fremiet, 
exposed at the Salon of 1900 and at the great exposition 
of that year, attracted the attention of one of the direct- 
ors of the society then in Paris, and it was suggested to 
the sculptor that he come home and try for the sculp- 
tural decorations. This he did, his sketches and studies, 
after running the triple gauntlet of the architect, the com- 
mittee and the art commission of the city, found favor, 
and it is his work which new adorns the building. This 
consists of the two pairs of seated lions, life size, in Ten- 
nessee marble, at the north and south entrances; the 
recumbent pair in high relief, African lion and lioness, 
in the pediment over each of these entrances; the several 
great heads of lions and tigers set in ornamental panels 
in the sides of the buildings; the thirty-eight smaller 
heads, repetitions of types of four of the largest cats, 
lion, tiger, puma and jaguar, modeled in their relative 
sizes, which adorn the cornice frieze of the exterior, and 
some ornamental work over the entrances in the interior, 
in addition to all this strictly zoological work, Mr. Har- 
vey modeled much of the architectural ornament. 
