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say five of a kind, in a bed 5 feet in 
diameter. 
Cut them back hard, don’t be afraid, 
but cut back to 6 inches, or there- 
abouts. It will be better for the sub- 
sequent growth and fine roses. If 
they can be cut back every year about 
December or early March to a foot 
or so for strong growers, and closer 
a little for weak ones, you will have 
finer flowers on more shapely bushes. 
Water well and thoroughly when dry 
weather comes along, say once a 
week. You can wash the dust off 
The remarkable work of the Shade 
Tree Commission of Newark, N. J., 
recently noted in these pages, is made 
more evident by the handsome an- 
nual report just issued, an illustrated 
book of sixty-four pages, telling of 
the accomplishments and methods of 
this very practical and successful or- 
ganization. The book includes a 
resume of the five years’ work of the 
commission and an account of the 
year’s work in detail. The expendi- 
ture for the year was $48,549, of 
which $27,976 was for planting and 
care of street trees, and the rest for 
the maintenance and improvement of 
public grounds and parks. The com- 
mission has planted a total of 10,697 
trees in the five years of its activity. 
The commission also issues two very 
handsome and suggestive pamphlets 
on Arbor Day that are inspiring and 
practical aids to the observance of 
the day. Carl Bannwart is secretary 
of the commission. 
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Spraying has now become such a 
ptominent and essential part of the hor- 
ticulturist’s business program, and the 
literature in connection with it so ex- 
tensive, that no word is practically nec- 
essary to fix our reader’s attention upon 
the fact. But spraying to destroy noxi- 
•ous weeds is more of a new departure, 
and to record that it has been a subject 
of more or less successful experiment 
by competent authorities, certainly in- 
vites the co-operation of all cemetery 
and park officials to whom the eradica- 
tion of weeds has always been a source 
of extra work and anxiety. Many of 
the State Agricultural Experiment Sta- 
tions, as well as the Department of 
Agriculture at Washington, have taken 
up the subject and report favorable re- 
tire leaves with the hose between 
times if you like, but avoid either 
perpetual muddiness or perpetual 
dryness. 
You will have insects and fungus 
or black spot. Spray for this in 
April and June with Bordeaux mix- 
ture. Use tobacco water for green 
fly. White Hellebore for caterpillars. 
The best plan for rose beetles is to 
catch them. Jar them into a pan of 
petroleum. That settles them, or any 
other bugs. 
James MacPherson. 
suits in directions where noxious weeds 
were detrimental to crops, fields and 
lawns; and in the latter the dandelion 
has also been kept well in check by the 
use of the spray pump and chemicals. 
The American Sprayer & Supply Com- 
pany, Champaign, 111., has been devoting 
close attention to this matter and has 
brought out spraying machinery and 
implements especially adapted to the 
work. The importance of the subject 
is such that it would be advisable for all 
interested to write to the company for 
their literature and experience in this 
department of spraying. 
PARK IMPROVEMENTS 
President E. J. Parker of the 
Quincy Park and Boulevard Associa- 
tion, Quincy, 111., has started a move- 
ment for the establishing of harbor 
lines for the city’s frontage on the 
Mississippi with a view to a future 
systematic development and beautifi- 
cation of the entire water front. A 
committee of the park association has 
been appointed to act in conjunction 
with similar committees from all 
other civic and semi-public organiza- 
tions in the city for the purpose of 
inducing the government to establish 
a harbor line. The Gardner estate 
announces that it will contribute an 
additional $4,000 toward improving 
Gardner Park. 
Mount Pleasant, la., has voted to 
buy a 39 acre tract adjoining the city 
on the north for a park. 
Superintendent of Parks William 
Madden of Dayton., O., is to push 
the work of improving McKinley 
Park, for which there is an appro- 
priation of $1,500. 
The Park Commissoners of Terre 
Haute, Ind., have formally taken pos- 
session of the new Parsons Field tract 
and are making plans for transform- 
ing it into a park. 
Elkhart, Ind., has taken possession 
of a river bank park tract recently 
donated by Mrs. R. M. Johnson. 
The late John C. Latham has be- 
queathed to Hopkinsville, Ky., two 
tracts for public parks and a fund of 
$.'50,000 for their improvement. 
John Schuette has presented to 
Manitowoc, Wis., a river front tract 
known as Riverside Park, which he 
had already improved at his own ex- 
pense. 
Charles L. Kiewert of Milwaukee 
will present to Watertown, Wis., a 
park tract on the Rock River. 
Gary, Ind., has passed an ordinance 
providing for acquiring by condem- 
nation a 90 acre park on the lake 
front. 
The lake in Cadwalader Park, Tren- 
ton, N. J., will be enlarged to double 
its present size, and some additional 
water fowl placed on it. The trees 
in this park will this fall be scien- 
tifically treated. 
Henry Klehm has begun the im- 
provement of the new Stephens Park 
at Moline, 111., which is to cost $30,- 
000 . 
The late R. M. Bruce deeded to 
Greenwich, Conn., a tract of land 
for a park. 
The Union Heights Allotment Co. 
of Alliance, O., has offered to that 
city a 14 acre tract for a park. 
The Beautifying Commission of 
Norfolk, Va., is considering the com- 
prehensive development of Smith’s 
Creek and adjacent land into a park 
and boulevard system. H. N. Castle 
is chairman of the commission. 
Captain W. M. Lewis has presented 
a new park to Racine, Wis., and do- 
nated $5,000 for its improvement. 
Under the provisions of the law 
which permits Kansas City to issue 
$150,000 in bonds for the acquisition 
of land for public parks, the Park 
Commissioners have just issued $45,- 
000 worth of bonds. Out of the pro- 
ceeds, land is to be purchased or 
condemned for artificial lakes, sunken 
gardens and a parkway from Wash- 
ington boulevard. Engineers are now 
laying out a cliff drive to follow the 
Kaw River bluffs; extensions of the 
boulevards in the heart of the city 
also are proposed. Much of the land 
taken for park purposes is low priced 
property, and the municipality is sav- 
ing money by purchasing the ground 
at present. 
PARK NEWS. 
