PARK AND CEMETERY 
XIII 
IMPROVEMENTS AND ADDITIONS. 
Park board of Springfield, Mass., is to erect a new entrance 
to Forest park, to be located about six hundred feet from the 
present main entrance. 
A plan is being considered by the park board of New \ork 
for reclaiming the submerged river front, and making an ad- 
dition of loi acres to Riverside park between 72d and 96th 
streets. 
An addition of seven and one-half acres is to be made to 
John Ball park. Grand Rapids, Mich. 
Work has begun on the parking of the grounds about the 
courthouse, county jail and the Carnegie library, at Delaware, 
Ohio. 
The park board of Hartford, Conn., has decided to estab- 
lish public golf links in Goodwin park. Supt. Parker has 
prepared an elaborate report on the maintenance and man- 
agement of golf grounds in other cities. 
Fifty new bath houses are to be erected at Ft. Hale park, 
New Haven, Conn. . 
An elaborate system of planting has been begun in the Mt. 
Helena Forest Park, Helena, Mont. The work is to be in 
charge of E. O. Siecke, who has secured 30,000 seedlings of 
bull pine and Douglas fir from the Dismal River Forest Re- 
serve in Nebraska. 
In order to encourage the planting of ornamental shade 
trees, the North Side Board of Trade, Borough of the Bronx, 
New York City, has arranged to offer cash prizes for the 
best trees planted according to the plans of the park depart- 
ment. 
This is an 
Excellent Time 
to plan your planting of orna- 
mental plants. Observe the trees 
and shrubs about you and make 
note of those that strike your fancy. 
If you are not familiar with them 
send us specimens for identification. 
If you wish to create some particu- 
lar effect or have a pi anting scheme 
in mind and are not certain as to 
the proper plants to use, ask us. 
Our half a century’s experience 
is your bureau of info’-mation. 
Feel free to consult it. No charge. 
Thomas Meehan & Sons, Inc. 
Growers’ of Highest Grade Ornamental Plants. 
Dreshertown BoxX Penn a. 
CEMETERY RECORDS 
A Simple System of Keeping a 
Complete Record of Interments^ 
Lot owners. Location of Graves, etc. 
Specimen Paces Sent on Application 
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324 DEARBORN ST., CHICAGO 
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One (1) box of Granite Stain Eradicator for perma- 
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granite. 
Two (2) lbs. of best selected Anclote Sponges. 
Six (6) of the finest Tampico Scrub Brushes made. 
Two (2) extra fine quality Steel Wire Brushes. 
Five (5) Purified Pumice Bricks. 
Ten (.10) lbs. selected Oxalic Acid. 
Five (5) lbs. imported selected Lump Pumice Stone, 
filed and smoothed. 
Ten (10) lbs. of extra fine Blue Grit. 
Ten (10) lbs. of Superior Brown Grit. 
Ten (10) lbs. of the finest quality Red Grit. 
One (1) Carborundum Brick, coarse. 
One (1) Carborundum Brick, fine. 
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