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PARK AND CEMETERT. 
VIEW IN CHICKAMAUGA NATIONAL MILITARY PARK, CHATTANOOGA, TENN., SHOWING GRAVES OF PRIVATE 
SOLDIERS. 
large, spreading yellowish-white flowers, followed 
by pinkish-purple berries in clusters so large and 
full that by measurement any one bunch will more 
than fill a large wash basin. They persist through the 
fall. 
The Chestnut Oak is one of the handsomest trees 
of this section. Its peculiarity consists in leaves with- 
out lobes. They are of the same smooth, broad ob- 
long form as the chestnut. The acorns are large and 
colored yellow and brown, frequently with a red band. 
They are the showiest and largest acorns produced by 
any oak. 
Co mils alba, the widely common dogwood is abund- 
ant. The berries are dazzling red from early Septem- 
ber until December. Dogwood foliage turns bright 
red, but is not as persistent as that of the sour wood. 
The pines of Lookout Mountain are probably Finns 
resinosa, the red or Norway pine. The trees range from 
medium to small. None of them are of 50 or 80 feet, 
as Gray says they are in other localities. They branch 
freely, beginning low down, and the needles are short 
and bristling, densely covering the branches, and of the 
richest green color. The cones are not over two inches, 
and in October are of a reddish hue, not ripe enough to 
show the scales, and resinous. For wind-breaks this 
mountain pine would exceed any evergreen known, 
even the cedar, in both defensive properties and rustic 
beauty. These trees are too handsome to be left in 
their wild state. Arboretums, parks and botanical gar- 
dens would be enriched and beautified by the plants of 
economic value, and the flowers that are bright and gay, 
as well as by the ornamental trees from this great park 
of nature, rock-ribbed, lofty and grand. 
Chickasaw and Chattanooga Military Park embraces 
6,473 acres, and is belted around, and adorned with the 
mountain pine, cedar, sour wood, chestnut, hickory, 
chestnut oak, red and pin oak, constituting as beautiful 
and varied evergreen and deciduous trees as may be 
found in any locality in the United States. 
Tlie National Cemetery on Highland Park, not far 
from Orchard Knob, Grant’s Headquarters, and Sher- 
man Heights, are also belted with the dark green, 
bristling pines and sombre cedars, brightened by the 
sour woods, viburnums, maples, sweet gums, poplar or 
tulip trees, oaks, chestnuts and hickories. 
It is a question which would find the richest field for 
study, the botanist or geologist, upon Lookout Moun- 
tain. A lover of trees need not be a learned botanist to 
find delight in the sylva of the mountains and the val- 
leys of East Tennessee, principally upon the mountains. 
G. T. Drennan. 
STREET TREES OF PARIS. 
Trees in the city streets of Paris are unquestionably 
better than can be found in like situations in most large 
American cities, writes Allen Chamberlain in Wood- 
land and Roadside. We have had a practice in our 
cities of cutting down all the trees along the business 
streets, if there were ever any there, on the ground that ' 
they were a detriment to business. In a city like Bos- 
ton the streets and sidewalks are too narrow to carry 
the traffic, even without sacrificing a single foot to 
trees. Paris, the remodelled Paris (and the remodel- 
ling is still going on), has provided ample room for 
roadways and sidewalks, and trees as well. If we 
would have tree-shaded business thoroughfares in our i 
great cities, we must first assume the costly burden of I 
extensive widenings. 
The first surprise that awaited me was the close J- 
planting. Fifteen to twenty feet on centres would be M 
the average for the older boulevards, but in the newer B 
plantations, as on the Seine embankment down stream B 
in the vicinity of Passy, the trees are set about forty B 
feet apart. B 
The tree most in use on the great boulevards is the H 
oriental plane, a first cousin to our buttonwood or syc-.^B 
amore. This tree is said to be able to resist the smoke 
and gaseous vapors of the city better than most others,.^B 
