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provements. Nearly all of the amount 
will be used in pushing toward com- 
pletion the four large unfinished 
parks of the city, Schiller, Lincoln, 
Kirk and Onondaga, in about equal 
amounts. Small sums will be used in 
finishing work in Burnet Park and at 
the Frazer School playgrounds. 
The council of Pasco, AVash., has 
decided to plant trees along both sides 
of the principal streets at tire* city's 
expense. 
Senator Works of Alankato, .Minn., 
has introduced a measure in the Min- 
nesota legislature providing for the 
appropriation of $.5,000 for the im- 
provement and maintenance of the 
iNIinnesota State Park; $1,000 for 
sinking a well upon it; $2,500 for re- 
pairing and constructing a road into 
the park, and $1,000 for salary of the 
superintendent, erecting a fence and 
planting trees. 
A sandy hillside at Tr'wvbridge 
street, Grand Rapids, Alich., an un- 
sightly spot, is to be improved by an 
ambling stairway and the planting of 
trees and shrubs. Some public spir- 
ited women, among them Mrs. 
Thomas Peck and Aliss Rebecca 
Richmond, purchased some lots and 
donated them to the city. 
NEW PARKS 
The special park commission ap- 
pointed to select suitable sites for ad- 
ditional parks and playgrounds for 
the West Side, Chicago, made its re- 
port and the purchase of two sites 
will be made at once. Each of the 
two parks will contain about eight 
acres and the work of laying out the 
grounds will be begun as soon as pos- 
sible. 
Joseph Sears, millionaire founder 
of Kenilworth, Chicago, has given to 
that suburb a beautiful public park 
and a large school site valued at $23,- 
( 100 . 
Youngstown, O., has, by gift of 
several property owners, another park 
of some 42 acres. The land was 
given through the Realty Trust Co. 
and it will be named Crandall Park. 
Manistee, Mich., has secured a city 
park by purchase. 
Initiatory steps have been taken by 
the Milwaukee Common Council for 
tlie purchase or condemnation of a 
large amount of land on the east and 
west sides of the Upper Milwaukee 
river. A public park is to be made 
of the pictures(|ue Milv\'aiikee river 
land, affording an uninterrupted 
frontage of not less than six miles and 
providing a park for Milwaukee cor- 
responding to the famous Hudson 
River Park. The cost of the project 
at thi' time is estimated at $1,050,000. 
It is declared the Socialists have al- 
ready acquired 60 per cent of the op- 
tions. It is proposed to submit the 
project to a vote of the people. 
William D. Packard's offer to pre- 
sent the people of Warren, O., with 
a park at a cost of $16,000 to him- 
self, and in addition give $4,000 to- 
waril improvements, provided the 
city would spend $30,000 for improve- 
ments, has been accepted by a -vote 
of 3 to 1. The property is known as 
the Kinsman farm, comprises 43 acres 
and is' located about a mile from the 
business center of the city. 
A resolution was recently passed by 
the council of Davenport, la., mak- 
ing a demand upon the Tri-City 
Railway and Light Company, own- 
ers of Prospect Park, to give to the 
city a - deed to the property. This 
clause was included in the franchise 
of the street railway company, the 
city having the right to take over the 
park grounds at any time it sees fit to 
do so. 
The recently purchased 97 acres by 
the city of Frankfort, Ind., for a pub- 
lic park, is to be improved. land- 
scape architect will prepare plans. 
The new park system of Dayton, 
O., is to be enlarged by parking an 
area at the junction of Lorain and 
Nassau streets. The improvement will 
be an important one. 
Officials of the Lackawanna, Dela- 
ware & Hudson, and Ontario & West- 
ern Railroads have under consider- 
ation the request of Mayor John von 
Bergen and Mrs. J. Benjamin Dim- 
mick, president of the City Improve- 
ment Association, of Scranton, Pa., 
that they donate TOO acres of unim- 
proved mountain land to Scranton for 
park purposes. The land is on the 
mountain range, which flanks the city 
on the west, and it has been acquired 
by the companies for mining pur- 
poses. 
The property of the Corn Products 
Company, Glen Cove, L. I., which has 
been an eyesore to the community 
for years, has been purchased by a 
group of prominent citizens, and after 
it has been improved will be pre- 
sented to the town as a public recrea- 
tion place. 
Congress Spring Park and Mineral 
.Spring at Saratoga, N. Y., has been 
purchased by the Park Commission. 
The purchase of the property is a 
part of the state reservation of min- 
eral springs, the taxpayers having 
voted $250,000 to create a public park 
in conjunction with the reservation. 
The village paid $] 00.000 for the prop- 
erty, which is one of the most at- 
tractive places in Saratoga Springs. 
Visalia, Cal., has purchased the city 
residence and grounds of the late F. 
E. Hyde, and will remodel it for a 
city park. It will be named Hyde 
Park in consideration of the low- 
price asked for the property, $8,000, 
considerably less than its value. 
FROM ANNUAL REPORTS 
The twelfth annual report of the 
Park Commissioners of Hopedale, 
Mass., for 1910, gives an encouraging- 
outlook for a small park department,, 
where the available funds amount only 
to some $2,500 yearly. The pamphlet 
is illustrated with full page halftones. 
The report states that the various' util- 
ities were patronized more than ever 
before, a fact very gratifying to the 
commission. An effort is made in this 
town to supply food for the game and 
song birds, not onh- to preserve them, 
but to attract them to the park terri- 
tory. Much time was e.xpended in the 
work of destroying the Gypsy and 
Brown Tail moths', the expense of 
which w'as borne by the park depart- 
ment. 
The annual meeting of the Home 
Gardening association of Cleveland. 
O., was held recentlv and reports 
showing the varied interests and ac- 
tivities for 1910 were presented. The 
Charles L. Paack prize w-as awarded to 
Carl Grundman, who is now a student 
at Ohio State universitjr This prize is 
sufficient to cover the necessary ex- 
penses of the winner at the university. 
The award is made upon the condi- 
tions that the boy devote three years 
to practical work in the training gar- 
dens, in competition with seventy 
other boys, and cultivate a vacant lot 
one year. The officers of the asso- 
ciation were re-elected for another 
year: E,' W. Haines, president; Lucy 
B. Buell, secretary; Starr Cadwallader, 
treasurer: G. H. McCollum, superin- 
tendent. 
ZINC PLANT LABELS 
Francis J. Wooley, in the “Weekly 
Plorists' Review,” gives the following 
formi.i.Ia for an ink for zinc labels: 
Bichloride of platinum, fifteen 
grains; distilled or soft water, one 
ounce; hydrochloric acid, five drops. 
Use a quill pen. This mixture must 
be used on labels of zinc only. The 
zinc should be clean and free from 
grease. The ink is yellow, but turns 
black in a few- seconds after touching 
the zinc. Bichloride of platinum can 
he bqugh.t of any of the large dealers 
in chemicals. If the w-riting on the 
zinc appears in time to grow dim, 
wet the labels and it will become clea.r 
again. 
