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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
ENTRANCE AND ORNAMENTAL PLANTING, OAKLAND CEMETERY, ST. PAUL 
The accompanying picture shows an interesting 
view of the chapel and entrance to Oakland Cemetery, 
St. Paul, Minn. The mound of carpet bedding in the 
foreground at the junction of the drives, contains a 
total of 5,125 plants, and is valued at $235. It was 
planted last June and photographed October 6, 1906. 
Superintendent Boxell gives us the following record 
of the bed : 
Diameter, 15 feet; height, 4 feet. Material used: 
Alternanthera, 2,975 plants; Echeveria (Secunda 
glauca), 1,800; Pyrethrum, 220; Abutilon, 125; 
Echeveria (Californica) , 21; Acalypha, 10; Boston 
Eern, i. Total, 5,152 plants. At the right of the 
picture, in the rear of the chapel, may also be dis- 
cerned a fine bed of cannas, and a glimpse of the 
greenhouse farther back appears under the archway. 
