16B 
PARK AND CEMETERY. 
SOME MINOR PARKS AND ORNAMENTAL GROUNDS IN CALIFORNIA 
There are a number of small parks and ornamental 
grounds in northern and central California that are 
interesting and but little known to the general travel- 
ing public that is familiar with Golden Gate and the 
groves of big trees. In Sacramento the park about 
the capitol is one of the most notable of these little 
beauty spots. 
The grounds themselves cover just one block. At 
WALK IN CAPITOL PARK, SACRAMENTO, CAL. 
each corner, at the curb, are great spruce trees. Be- 
tween these a stretch of lawn extends, planted with a 
row of tall fan-palms. After that, within the square, 
is a broad walk, on which children of the capital de- 
light to roller skate the year round. Then there suc- 
ceeds a low stone fence, with ornamental iron railing, 
broken in the middle of each side and at the corners 
by gates. Inside this enclosing wall again great old 
pines overhang, most of them dividing into two main 
limbs each. Out of the shadow of the evergreen the 
concentric square is formed of broad flower-beds, bor- 
dered in their turn by a lawn that stretches off to still 
another wide cement walk. After that succeeds a 
grass plot with shrubbery and more cedars, and built 
in terraces, leading up to the capitol building. 
On the first of the terraces the walk is bordered by 
tall California fan palms, the great trunks trimmed to 
rise straight up without break to the former leaf stems. 
Along the walk, too, are rows of bays and orange 
trees. Above this one is the terrace of the building 
itself. 
Miss Alice Eastwood, of the San Francisco 
Academy of Sciences, has made a careful study and 
classification of the trees in Capitol Park, and sub- 
mitted a report to the Governor, plotting all of the 
trees, which are to be labeled with metal tags for the 
benefit of visitors. She has classified 121 trees and 
shrubs and gives their names, with their nativity, as 
follows : 
Italian cypress, Europe ; Deodar cedar, Himalaya Moun- 
tains ; Magnolia, Atlantic United States ; Monterey cypress, 
California; Italian stone pine, Europe; Incense cedar, Cali- 
fornia; Arbor Vitae, Oregon and Washington; Lawson’s 
cypress, California and Washington; Torata, New Zealand; 
Laurel cherry, Europe; Hawthorne, Europe; Loquat, Japan; 
Tawhiwhi, New Zealand; Weigela, China; Norway spruce, 
Europe; Yew, Europe; Oleander, Mediterranean region; 
Silver Wattle, Australia; Weeping cypress, China; orange, 
tropical; Tulip tree, Mississippi Valley; California Fan 
Palm, California ; Monkey Puzzle, Chili ; Giant Redwood, 
California; Holly, Europe; Camellia, Japan; Euonymus, 
Japan ; Azalea, Japan ; Rhododendron, Japan ; Cryptomeria, 
Japan; Canary Island Date Palm, Canary Islands; Laurel, 
Europe; Rubber Tree, Tropical Asia; Pomegranate, 
Southern Asia; Tobira, Japan; Karo, New Zealand; 
Box, Europe; Japanese Christmas Berry, Japan; Mock 
Orange, Europe; Tamarix, Europe; Nandina, Japan; 
Myrtle, Europe ; Laurestinus, Europe ; Portugal Cher- 
