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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
The high banks mounting up on 
either side of many of the cross 
roads and inter-communicating roads 
are covered not with grass or vines, 
but with great masses of flowering 
plants, such as low-growing phlox, 
pinks, forget-me-nots, daisies and 
geraniums. 
The long pergolas which form a 
face to many of the buildings in the 
Court of Honor, are well covered 
with clematis and roses, which dis- 
play a magnificent draping of color. 
Decoration with so-called bedding 
plants plays a small part in the em- 
bellishment of this exposition, as it 
was felt that such planting adds only 
to confusion, and destroys the sim- 
A strong plea for protecting the 
trees in Fairmount Park, Philadel- 
phia, is made by the landscape gard- 
ener, Mr. Oglesby Paul, who urges 
sufficient appropriation to permit of 
successfully combatting the destruc- 
tion which threatens them. He says 
a tree growing within the limits of 
a great city, particularly if it be a 
manufacturing center, has many ad- 
verse forces to contend with, and its 
life at best is a constant struggle 
against such odds as escaping gases, 
which poison the roots, clouds of 
soot and dust, which clog the stomata 
or pores of the leaves, and killing 
drought from the waterproof-coated 
streets. In the woodlands of a park 
a further evil arises from trampling 
by the public, which kneads the 
ground to the consistency of brick 
clay, destroys the protecting under- 
growth, bruises exposed roots, and 
on hilly land starts washing of the 
surface in a way which often threat- 
ens the very existence of the wood 
itself. 
Those in charge of large parks, 
boulevards, and suburban estates are 
now a unit in declaring that the 
trees under their care need constant 
and intelligent attention, and that 
the old policy of trusting to nature 
to provide for them when established 
is a treacherous one and almost cer- 
tain to end in disaster. That the 
noble specimens in Fairmount Park 
should be exposed to injurious in- 
fluences without the necessary reme- 
dies is little short of a calamity; 
many of these old monarchs, repre- 
senting as they do the growth of 
generations, could not be replaced, 
and should therefore be maintained 
in a way that would be a credit to 
the city and a source of pleasure to 
plicity and pureness of the design. 
In contrast to the severity of the 
formal treatment throughout the 
Court of Honor, necessitated by the 
architectural grouping of the build- 
ings, an effort has been made to 
treat certain portions of the grounds 
in a rural and naturalistic fashion. 
This has been accomplished by the 
irregular massing of trees and flower- 
ing shrubs at the base of many of 
the buildings. 
Large areas, with their wonderful 
natural growth of majestic trees, 
have been preserved, all of which 
harmonize with the surrounding 
country and help to make this expo- 
sition the most beautiful of all. 
all for many years in the future. 
The Commissioner for Manhattan 
has asked for an appropriation of 
$50,000 for the care of trees and 
shrubs in Central Park, New York, 
whose area is about one-fourth that 
of Fairmount Park, while the latter 
last year had but $3,500, or $1.15 per 
acre, allotted for this purpose. 
One of the most remarkable things 
in connection with the San Francisco 
disaster and its rapid rehabilitation, 
is the speed with which all of the 
public parks have been restored. This 
applies especially to Golden Gate. 
The work not only of restoration, 
but of new improvements, has gone 
forward steadily and rapidly. Level- 
ing, terracing, opening of new boule- 
vards, pedestrian and equestrian 
paths has progressed rapidly. A 
large lake is now being created on 
Mr. Paul describing the damage 
done by smoke, gases, insect pests, 
and other causes, suggests means of 
controlling them, and demonstrates 
the asset which the city of Philadel- 
phia has in ornamental trees by tabu- 
lations showing for different sections 
of the. park the number, size, and 
varieties of trees. The lists do not 
include the Wissahickon Creek, but 
as indicative of the large trees for 
which the plea is made, they show 
that at breast-height there are 14 
chestnuts, 2 tulips, and one black 
oak feet -in diameter, 43 chest- 
nuts, 6 tulips, 2 black walnuts, 1 
beech, 3 white oaks, and 1 black oak, 
trees which are four feet in diameter, 
breast high. 
The tabulations give the number 
of trees of various diameters, but we 
merely refer to there being over 
2,200 trees 2 feet or more in diame- 
ter, the principal varieties being in 
the order named, chestnut, white oak, 
tulip, black oak, red oak, and beech. 
Surely such an array of what may be 
considered monarchs of the forest 
is worthy of sufficient protection to 
preserve them. 
the southern part of the park well 
out toward the ocean beach. Some 
marked improvements to both Stow 
Lake and the chain of lakes have 
also been made. 
The great Speedway — or Stadium- 
grounds — work on which had just 
commenced before the disaster, has 
about been completed at a total cost 
of $50,000. The immense Temple of 
Music, the Egyptian Art Museum, 
the Children’s Playhouse and grounds 
have been completely restored. 
CHAIN OF LAKE'S, GOLDEN GATE P.4.RK, SAN FRANCISCO 
CARING FOR THE PARK TREES 
IMPROVING GOLDEN GATE PARK 
