PARK AND CEMETERY. 
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LINCOLN PARK. OVERLOOKING BAY AND MOUNT TACOMA. 
Tacoma. Wash. 
ornamental shelter houses, all of different design, were 
built last year, and six more are to be erected this com- 
ing year. All improvements are in keeping with the 
natural character of the surroundings. On the be^ch 
are baths accommodating over 500 people, and a 
casino, a large octagonal building. 
Thousands of people from this and the surrounding 
cities, pass their afternoons and evenings in this 
beautiful park, and grow into social freedom by the 
influence of easy intercourse, in the space and beauty 
that surround them. In the southeast corner the zoo- 
logical and flower gardens, water garden, rose garden 
and conservatory are situated. There were 15,000 feet 
of drain tile used in this part of the grounds this year, 
ten thousand feet of water pipes laid and a six 
thousand gallon reservoir built. A handsome arch- 
way, built of cedar with rock foundation, is thirty 
feet wide and twenty-five feet high, with gate for 
pedestrians on each side. All the cedar used for build- 
ing comes from the logs of fallen trees, of which we 
have thousands as good now as they were before they 
fell, fifty, seventy-five and one hundred years ago. 
We never allow the ax on a living tree, and dead or 
alive, no tree is cut without orders from the super- 
intendent. 
The conservatory is 100 by 25 feet, in three apart- 
ments, heated by hot water, for the general collection 
of stove and greenhouse plants. Our summer bedding 
plants are raised here like everything else we propa- 
gate at home, and we beg the stock to propagate 
from. We handle over 100,000 plants and bulbs in 
all the flower gardens, this not including annuals. 
Grandmothers’ beds of flowers flourish every summer 
in every garden, and give greater satisfaction than 
carpet work, which is not in keeping with art, as pre- 
scribed by nature. We propagate 20,000 shrub Cal- 
ceolarias in cold frames every year, using pure sand. 
Very little protection is needed. Their gold and green 
blending charms the visitors, especially the easterners, 
who say they never see them in the parks of New 
York, Chicago, Philadelphia and even Boston. 
We have an abundance of both spring and summer 
flowers. Over 75,000 bulbs were planted this fall, in- 
cluding hyacinths, tulips, narcissus, crocuses, wall- 
flowers, primroses, Arabis, forget-me-nots, Pyreth- 
rum aureum and silver thyme, for borders. In plant- 
ing the beds, we plant the Arabis thick to cover the 
soil, thus giving the bulbs a green carpet and pro- 
tecting the flowers. We use thousands of wallflowers, 
preferably the single ones, every fall, in solid beds and 
borders, and 10,000 pansies. After the bulbous dis- 
play is over, we plant all these beds and borders again, 
using cannas, caladiums, celosias, heliotropes, gerani- 
ums, fuschias. Calceolaria rugosa, perilla. Coleus and 
many others. We also use asters, stocks, lobelias 
candytuft and alyssums. In the borders we sprinkle 
