VIII 
PARK AND CEMETE-RY 
PARK NOTES. 
(Continued from page 114.) 
guide and inspiration for future effort. The objects of 
this association of public-spirited citizens are the securing 
through the city council or by gift to the city as many 
open spaces as possible; the planting of trees; the furnish- 
ing of public baths and ample areas around school build- 
ings; the laying out of outlying districts; the saving of 
woodland tracts, with such subsidiary improvements as 
can be accomplished for the beauty of the city. 
Before the organization of the City Parks Association 
Philadelphia had 15 parks, containing 3,505 acres, of 
which 2.968 acres were included in Fairmount Park. Since 
its organization 20 parks, 115 acres, have been selected 
and improved; five, 318 acres, have been selected and are 
in process of improvement, and 20, containing 154 acres, 
have been selected but remain unimproved. In addition 
to these breathing spaces, which owe their existence 
largely or wholly to the initiative of the association, there 
are on the city plan about 12^ miles of parkways, bj/j 
miles along Pennypack Creek and four along the eastern 
side of Cobb’s Creek, placed on the city plan as parks. 
The total park area of Philadelphia is approximately .4.,095 
acres, improved and unimproved. 
In surveying the activities of the association during 
the past two years the report notes some great successes 
and one deplorable failure — “the total obliteration of the 
40 acres of magnificent trees of Sherwood Forest,” which 
is today “merely flat land.” Among the great achieve- 
ments of the period is the preservation of six and a half 
miles, 1,000 acres, of the beautiful valley of Pennypack 
Creek, and of four miles, or 182 acres, of the eastern side 
of the valley of Cobb’s Creek. The placing of these 
areas on the city plan is characterized as the most im- 
portant step taken toward the acquisition of parks since 
the Wissahickon was appropriated for paik purposes. 
The association urges that these areas should be actually 
acquired by the city. 
The 23d annual report of the Board of Park Commis- 
sioners of Minneapolis for 1905 is a handsomely printed 
book showing many beautiful pictures of scenes in the 
parks. The city now has 1,810 acres of parks and the 
expenditure for the year was $238,100. The most preten- 
tious improvement of the year was the erection of the 
new pavilion in Minnehaha Park at a cost of $17,500. 
The most important park work done was the improve- 
ment of the Parade and the grounds surrounding Spring 
Lake. A block of land was donated for a grand entrance 
to the Parade by Hon. Thos. Lowry. The Board strongly 
urges the appointment of an expert forester to care for 
the city’s street trees which are being planted by the 
Park Commissioners at the rate of 1,000 a year. There 
were 2,000 trees planted in the parks and boulevards, of 
which 1,329 were taken from the park nursery. 
The annual report of Supt. D. D. England, of the park 
board of Winnipeg, Canada, shows that careful attention 
was given to all the public breathing spaces, of which 
there are now 10 within the city limits. The most marked 
improvements were made in St. James Park, where up- 
wards of $1,800 was spent in making roads, grading, tree 
planting, and changing the general topography of the 
park from nature’s wild state to an artistically arranged 
pleasure resort. In Crescentwood many improvements of 
a permanent nature were made, the most extensive of 
these being the fencing and planting of trees and shrubs. 
Notre Dame Park, where the greenhouses and trial 
grounds are situated, -was considerably improved. The 
grade over the front portion of the park has' been raised 
about 14 inches, and while the park is not yet in a finished 
state, the public visit it with a great deal of satisfaction 
during the season. In Central Park a bandstand was 
built at a cost of $5SO. The design is novel in appearance 
and adds much to the utility of the park. All the other 
parks are practically beyond the primary stage of im- 
provements and expenditures on these are chiefly for 
maintenance. The total expenditure for the year was 
$72,051. 
The 46th annual report of the Park Commissioners of 
Hartford, Conn., is a carefully prepared and handsomely 
illustrated detailed account of the park work in that city, 
containing reports of former Superintendent Theodore 
Wirth and his successor, G. A. Parker The ex- 
penditure for the year was $47,326, of which $11,- 
408 was for improvements and $35,917 for mainte- 
nance. A section of new retaining wall 205 feet long 
was built in Bushnell Park at a cost of $3,535, and in 
Elizabeth Park the principal improvement was a hand- 
some new stone arch bridge to replace a wooden one. 
The total cost of the bridge was $3,500. The introduction 
of the school garden in Riverside Park was very success- 
ful in every respect, the applications far exceeding the 
capacity. Eor this reason the garden, at first intended to 
accommodate 50, was eventually sub-divided to give 
places to 150 children. 
NEW PARKS. 
Saginaw, Mich., is planning to raise a fund of $200,000 
for establishing new parks. Ten citizens are to sub- 
scribe $10,000 each, and the city to issue bonds for $100,- 
000 . 
* * * 
The park board of Des Moines, la., will ask the city 
council’s permission to convert the old Sunnyside Ceme- 
tery on the east side of the river into a pu’olic park. It 
occupies about four square blocks. 
* * * 
Heirs of the historic Admiral Hopkins estate in Provi- 
dence, R. I., have offered one acre of it to the city for 
a public park. 
* * * 
The three small parks of the West Park System of 
Chicago, provided for in the bond issue of $1,000,000 
voted last fall, have been located and work of develop- 
ment is to proceed at once. 
* * * 
Mayor Albert E. Taylor, of Springfield, Mass., has 
appointed a commission of three to act in conjunction. 
HARDY ORNAMENTAL 
TREES AND PLANTS 
Suitable for Cemetery 
and Park Planting 
Shade Trees, Evergreens 
Hedge Plants, Flowering 
Shrubs, Perennials, Roses 
Superintendents and Gardeners for Park's or Cem- 
eteries should write us for estimates. Price List 
ready Sept. 1st. Send for copy. 
JACKSON & PERKINS CO. Newark, Wayne Co. 
Wholesale Nurserymcfi and Florists New York I 
