PARK AND CEMETERY. 
which grows to a large size and is par- 
ticularly valuable on account of its 
hardiness. An interesting group is to 
be found at the intersection of Web- 
ster avanue and Stockton drive, where 
and continuing in foliage until late in 
the fall. It is low headed and grace- 
ful in form and produces excellent 
lawn specimens. The red maple (Acer 
rubrum), and sugar maple (.\cer sach- 
nSG 
against the city environment, and if it 
l>e spring time the honey locust per- 
fumes the air with its clusters of pun- 
gent scented flowers. At this season, 
too, the crab apples are at their best. 
AQUATIC PLANTING IN LINCOLN PARK, CHICAGO. 
seven stems arise in a single group to 
a great height. A near relative — the 
Carolina poplar (variety Carolinen- 
sis), is a particularly useful tree in 
the congested part of the city where 
the hard woods and many of the soft 
woods absolutely refuse to grow. The 
poplar family is largely represented 
in the park as it is generally through- 
out the middle west, the Abele or 
white popular, the balsam poplar, and 
the American aspen being among the 
most common. 
Among the willows, the white wil- 
low (Salix alba), is the most conspic- 
uous. It grows to a large size and is 
thoroughly at home along the pond 
edges and on low ground where water 
is abundant in the soil. It forms an 
interesting shrub in the early part of 
its life and is used to a great extent 
in massed plantings. This form with 
the yellow willow (Salix vitellina), 
and the weeping willow (Salix Baby- 
lonica), make up a trio of truly valu- 
able members of this great family. 
The most useful and handsome of 
the maples, perhaps, is the Norway 
(Acer platanoides), a beautiful tree 
showing its leaves early in the spring 
charinum), are grown in limited num- 
bers, while the box elder or ash leaved 
maple (Acer negundo), is a tree of 
more questionable value but of persis- 
tent growth. 
The lindens may Le seen in two 
forms, the European linden (Tilia 
Europaea), and more common the 
American linden (Tilia Americana) 
The latter is a tree of extreme value, 
although falling heir to many forms 
of insect enemies. 
The birches are not at home in the 
park, many of the varieties absolutely 
refusing to grow among the severe 
conditions imposed. The canoe birch 
(Betula papyrifera), and the white 
hirch (Betula alba), may be found 
here and there feebly combating city 
conditions. 
.V tree of minor importance is the 
catalpa speciosa, which, although 
thriving remarkably well, presents a 
scraggy, unkept appearance. 
Sca-ttered throughout the grounds 
are many hackberries, alders and ai- 
lanthus trees, while now and then a 
sturdy, gnarled, burr oak, a relic of 
wild pigeon days, stands out among 
its neighbors mutely protesting 
the exquisite double blooms of the 
Bechtels permeating the air with their 
fra.grance. 
Among the conifers but three spe- 
cies of pine seem able to successfully 
withstand Chicago elements. The 
Mugho pine, an interesting mountain 
variety of dwarf and pendulant nature, 
forms a refreshing variety to the de- 
ciduous plantings, while the Scotch 
and Austrian pines ( P. sjdvestris an.d 
P. Larico Austriaca) make fair head- 
way against the smoke, possibly on 
account of the arrangement of the 
stomata on all three sides of their 
triangular-shaped needles. These 
three forms, with the single excep- 
tion of the Colorado blue spruce 
(Picea pungens glauca), seem to be 
about the only cone-bearing trees that 
will succeed in the park. 
Earliest of all the shrubs, the for- 
sythias with their leafless stalks of 
yellow, bell-like flowers, appear as 
harbingers of spring. The weigela in 
several varieties follow, accompanied 
by a really creditable bloom from a 
host of lilacs. The lilacs not only 
grow but thrive, even many of the 
more tender varieties blooming in 
