PARK AND CEMETERY 
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available from private munificence. It was then sug- 
gested that the Park Commission should add the 
needed land, should build and maintain drives and 
walks, water supply, drainage and other construction 
and police and maintain them, leaving the University 
to attend to planting and gardening matters and care 
for the grounds (except certain reservations intended 
for the exclusive use of the public) and to erect and 
maintain the museum. The city took title to the land 
and leased to the University the parts intended to be 
developed and maintained by it. The arrangement 
has worked well. The city has a park of two hundred 
and twenty-three acres at a cost for land of about 
$80,000 only, including that covered by the parkway. 
The scenery of the Arnold Arboretum is varied and 
interesting, the principal features being two hills of 
considerable size, one of which commands extensive 
and beautiful views, and the other is valuable because 
extremely rugged and wild, having upon one part the 
largest patch of wild hemlock wood in the vicinity of 
Boston. Partly, perhaps, because of the rarity of a 
hemlock wood close to a dense population, because 
of the ease and completeness with which it is destroyed 
by forest fires and partly owing to the fact that hem- 
locks are abundant in remote mountainous districts, no 
other tree is so well adapted to produce seclusion and 
romantic wildness. 
(To be continued.) 
Plan for tHe Colt Playg>rotinds, Hartford, Conn. 
The accompanying plan of the Colt public play- 
grounds of Hartford, Conn., has been prepared by 
Theodore Wirth, Superintendent of Parks of that city, 
for the development of a tract belonging to the Colt 
estate, which has been presented to the city and form- 
ally accepted by the Council. Mr. Wirth recommends 
that the tract be developed gradually with an annual 
expenditure of about $3,000 and estimates the ex- 
pense of maintenance when the work is completed 
will be about $4,000 a year. 
The different features of the tract are described as 
follows in Mr. Wirth’s report to the Council : 
“Tract No. i of ii acres contains the present park- 
like residential grounds on which is located the beauti- 
ful monument erected by Mrs. Colt to her husband. 
This area, together with tract No. 2 of five acres, 
which should be planted as a grove, would be the only 
part of the grounds that may be called a park in the 
proper sense of the word. They will be a welcome 
retreat with spacious lawns, attractive ponds and 
shade-spreading trees.” 
Going through those grounds we pass the enclosure 
of a fine herd of deer and come to tract No. 3, selected 
for a school garden. The Park Board this year ex- 
pending $750 for the school garden of one acre in 
Riverside Park and the Civic Club spent that much 
more for tuition and the necessary materials and im- 
plements. Here we have two acres all laid out in 
the best sheltered position in an ideal location, a child’s 
paradise ; all we need to do is to march them in and 
set them to work. The little gardener’s cottage at 
the southwest corner of the school garden could be 
used for a household school, which was so popular at 
Riverside Park. 
To the south of the school garden is tract No. 4, af- 
fording room for 20 tennis courts. At Pope Park 
there are four courts and that many more could be 
used. They have been self-sustaining ever since they 
were established, through the charge of a small fee. 
And near by are roomy buildings, which can at a 
small cost be made useful for toilet accommodations, 
lockers, shower baths and shelter and storage rooms. 
