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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
the same rank are equally profitable. 
The cemeteries about New York 
vary in size from five acres up to 
more than 2,000. Pinelawn, which is 
in Suffolk county, Long Island, has 
2,319 acres, and is the largest of all. 
Kensico is the next, with 600 acres, 
and there are three that are between 
400 and 500 acres in extent. 
As the city has expanded the lim- 
its within which no new cemeteries 
may be established have been pushed 
further and further afield; yet there 
remain, even on Manhattan Island, 
many ancient burial spots that are 
hidden away by high walls from the 
casual observer. Some of these 
neglected cemeteries of other genera- 
tions are in the heart of the city and 
are worth several hundred dollars a 
square foot. There is a little triangle 
of ground, for example, in a cross 
street not far from lower Sixth ave- 
nue for which a fabulous sum has 
been offered time and again. There 
are but one or two graves in this tiny 
plot of ground, and they are over- 
grown with a thicket of interlocking 
brushwood, but it is still cherished 
among the dearest possessions of the 
society that owns it. 
One of the big department stores 
on Sixth avenue is built on three 
sides of another of these • ancient 
cemeteries. The windows that give 
view over the spot are more than 
breast high for a tall man, so that 
the average patrons of the place,, un- 
less they made an effort, could not 
see the graveyard, and would pass 
and repass it for years without sus- 
pecting its existence. 
CEMETERY NOTES 
In securing land by condemnation 
for an addition, Lakewood Cemetery, 
Minneapolis, has become involved in 
a legal fight with owners of land 
in Saunders’ Park who want to prevent 
the Cemetery Association from con- 
demning their property unless the 
values are based on the land’s value 
for cemetery purposes. The owners 
allege that their lots are now prac- 
tically surrounded by cemetery prop- 
erty and have lost all value as resi- 
dence sites. The property adjoins the 
cemetery proper and they claim the 
price should have a distinct rela- 
tion to the price paid for burial 
lots in the cemetery. A plot in the 
cemetery the size of a residence lot 
is worth from $5,000 to $10,000, the 
owners say. The present action in 
the district court is a sequel to con- 
demnation proceedings five years ago. 
First, we goat it scientifically to find 
out just what all the possible— and ap- 
parently impossible — troubles are. 
Then we go about it systematically. 
to remedy them. The result is, that 
the good intentioned ideas and reme- 
d ies of superintendents, gardeners and 
committee men are not tried first one 
and then the other, to sort of keep 
everybody happy — at the expense of 
the trees. 
We treat cavities and seal them up; 
do discriminating pruning; stay and 
strengthen crippled parts; locate and 
destroy borers; spray at the right 
time with the right spray— in short, 
give your trees aclean bill of hpalth — 
and keep it clean. 
If you want to do business with the 
kind of people who do thi.s kind of 
thing, right, we would like to hear 
from you. 
Glad to send you at once our book- 
let on “Care of Trees.” 
You may like to find outmoreabout 
us, and we wish you would. One 
way, is to let us give you the names 
of some of the people for whom we 
have done some of these things. 
Munson - Whitaker Co. 
Commercial frr' Landscape Foresters 
858 Tremont Bldg., BOSTON 1218 Monadnock Bldg., CHICAGO 
1718 Flatiron Bldg., NEW YORK 
How We 
to Save 
Your Trees 
Help You 
rSpecimen Stock-i 
A full line of Evergreens 
and other Trees and 
Shrubs, all recently trans- 
planted. Also a fine line 
of Phlox, Iris, Peonies, 
Bulbs, etc. 
ROSEDALE NURSERIES 
TARRYTOWN, N. Y. 
The Improvement of Towns 
and Cities 
By Charles Mulford Robinson 
A comprehensive and practical 
handbook on Civic Improvement 
by the leading authority in Amer- 
ica. “Invaluable forcity and town 
officials; it should be in the hands 
of every mayor, city engineer, 
park superintendent and even 
councilman .” — Municipal Journal 
and Engineer, 
Price, postpaid. $t.3s 
PARK AND CEMETERY 
324 Dearborn St.. Chicago 
DEALER IN 
Spruce, Baham and Hemlock Boughs 
Hardy Cut Ferns, Lycopodium, Laurel 
Mosses, etc. Boughs for cemetery use and 
for covering plants in winter. Hemlock 
is used for festooning and background, 
decorating halls, churches, etc. 
Boughs put up in 100 lb. bales. Can 
furnish in Bale, Ton or Car Load Lots. 
Now is the time to place your order for 
carload lots for Fall delivery before the 
rush Strictly No. 1 Stock. Write forprices. 
Address H. J. SMITH, Hinsdale, Mass. 
I Order 
I Your 
I Supplies 
From dealers who 
advertise in : : : 
PARK and 
CEMETERY 
And always mention the 
Paper when yon write. 
