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trees and shrubs were planted in rows in the nursery, making 
the total number now standing there 39,872. This, added to 
40,000, the total number taken out for planting, makes a total 
of 79,942 trees and shrubs handled since the nursery was es- 
tablished. The expense for maintaining it during the past 
year was $1,101.64. 
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Anyone contemplating building macadam drives with stone 
which has not been thoroughly tested before in roads may 
derive some assistance in forming a judgment as between dif- 
ferent kinds of rocks proposed to be crushed by communi- 
cating with the Road , Bureau of the Department of Agriculture 
at Washington, D. C. iests and analyses and reports on 
specimens submitted will be furnished free. One piece of 
advice this bureau furnished may be new to many park com- 
missioners. It is advised that the hardest rock (such as 
trap) should not be used for, surfacing drives where there 
is comparatively little traffic. The rock used should be suffi- 
ciently soft to supply by the wear of passing vehicles the 
amount of grit and dust needed to maintain the binding 
quality. Unless this ingredient of macadam is continually 
supplied by this method or by applications to the surface ex- 
pressly for the purpose, rain and wind will wash the fine grit 
and binding particles away and the larger stones will soon 
become loose and the road will break up more or less and wear 
into ruts and holes. 
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One of the prominent features of park development in the 
boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens for the coming year is the 
largely increased facilities that are being provided for athletic 
games and sports. Plans and specifications have been pre- 
pared and bids are soon to be opened for a handsome brick 
athletic house to be built on the parade ground, Prospect 
park. It will cost $50,000 and be equipped with lockers for 
baseball, football and cricket outfits, and it will be fitted 
up with shower baths and other modern improvements. The 
building will also contain the new Prospect Park police sta- 
tion. The structure will be of colonial design and it is 
planned to have it completed for the season of 1906. New 
gymnasiums are being built under the Williamsburg bridge 
and at Canarsie park, both to be fitted up with the best of 
modern appliances. Bids will be opened soon for a new boat 
and .skaters’ house in Prospect park, near the old one, to 
cost about $50,000. During the year 1904 there were 457 
picnics held in Prospect park attended by over 150,000 people. 
Bids have been opened for new shelter houses in Fort 
Greene, Bushwick, Irving, Cooper, Bedford and Carroll parks, 
and work on them will be pushed. 
Five miles of roads and drives and seven or eight miles of 
paths have been laid out in Forest park and more are being 
added every year. The ground is being left in its natural 
condition as far as possible. The large nurseries and green- 
houses at Forest park, which supply all the parks of Greater 
New York with trees and shrubs, are kept up in the best con- 
dition. Over 22,000 shrubs and trees are furnished every year 
at a saving to the city of $10,000 per year. Seven and a half 
acres of new playgrounds have been added to Brooklyn parks 
this year and two new recreation spots, one known as Rainey 
park, on the East river, at Long Island City, bought by the 
municipality, and the other New Highland Park, on the hills 
north of Jamaica, a gift from the women of the village, have 
been added to Queens park areas. 
NEW PARKS. 
Frank H. and W. A. Nutter, landscape architects, of Min- 
neapolis, have been engaged to make plans for Liberty Flill 
Park, Hutchins, Wis. The tract comprises 28 acres of ele- 
vated wooded land of great natural beauty. 
The Board of Park Commissioners, of Des Moines, have 
bought a five-acre tract, formerly belonging to the Drake es- 
tate, for $28,000. It is to be developed as a public park. 
The Park Board, of Kansas City, Mo., is considering a 
proposition to annex a part of Brush Creek Valley to the city 
park system. It is planned to include about 50 acres in the 
territory, which is to be connected with Penn Valley Park by 
a driveway. 
Mark White Square, one of the new public service parks of 
the South Park System of Chicago was recently dedicated. It 
includes 10 acres. Others of this system which have been 
dedicated this spring are Hamilton Park, 29 acres; Davis 
Square, 10 acres, and Armour Square, 10 acres. 
A new park is being laid out at Merrill, Miss. 
Norman Haskins has presented a tract of about two acres 
to the city of Des Moines, la., to be used as a public park. 
The Chicago, Burlington & Quincy R. R. has presented the 
famous “Garden of the Gods” in Colorado to the city of Col- 
orado Springs for park purposes. The tract is valued at 
$250,000. 
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MORE ABOUT THE TERM “GARDENESQUE.” 
Editor Park and Cemetery ; — I read with interest the 
comment by Mr. James MacPherson in your August issue, 
entitled “Gardenesque” and I have re-read Mr. Olmsted’s 
article upon village improvement in which I can find no justi- 
fication for so bold an attack upon the profession of land- 
scape architecture, or gardening, if you will. 
Your contributor says the word “is applied to garden- 
ing of a vastly different character than that described by Mr. 
Olmsted.” Does he know that Mr. Olmsted did not describe 
the term Gardenesque in that article, but simply referred to 
the type, leaving each person to form his own impression? 
Since this is so, the first attack on Mr. Olmsted seems to 
be uncalled for. 
In concluding your contributor advises Mr. Olmsted to 
“try his hand on the gardenesque style, not on paper, as he 
makes it in the Atlantic, but in its purity.” Since Mr. Olm- 
sted has not “tried his hand on the style,” in the Atlantic, 
but has simply referred to it as a well known style this advice 
seems also entirely uncalled for. 
So much for the personal references, for I did not really 
mean to discuss them : but what about the question of design 
in the “large grounds in the United States?” Because plants 
will grow well in beds formed with simple lines and pegs, 
or because grass cutters like to run about a six foot circle, 
must our lawns be turned into botanic gardens, or must the 
edges of our lawns be abolished? 
Because a man can see through a round window, because 
it is easily washed, and because the painter can easily follow 
the mouldings above it, must we have round windows dot- 
ting the front of the house like bushes in the husbandman’s 
front yard ? The architect must heed practical requirements 
and must govern his designs accordingly, but he can not in 
so doing alter the fundamental laws of design. So too the 
landscape architect must recognize the practical requirements 
such as those pointed out by your contributor ; but he too 
must recognize the fundamental laws of design, of relations 
of space to space, mass to mass, color to color, and shape to 
shape, if he hopes to produce effects worthy of his profes- 
sion. 
Cambridge, Mass. George Gibbs, Jr. 
