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these point as do also the client's per- 
sonal desires. 
From the work of these earlier de- 
signers we get inspiration helping us to 
■determine the general character of the 
special treatment. Shall it be formal 
or informal and here is where there 
should be the heartiest co-operation be- 
tween the client, the architect of the 
buildings and the landscape architect, 
for manifestly the type of house select- 
ed should suit the site as well as fit it, 
and the best design is that which most 
comprehensively meets all these condi- 
tions. While some sites much more 
emphatically demand rigid formality 
M. N. B., W. Va. Our custom is 
to mark graves in Woodlawn Ceme- 
tery with a board with date of death, 
and the name of the deceased. Is 
there any other way better? 
Ans. If it is the intention to con- 
tinue to mark all graves a more en- 
during material should be used for 
this purpose. Slate or marble slabs 
uniform in size are often used. Ce- 
ment markers are easily made, and if 
the material is properly mixed will be 
found enduring. See the advertise- 
ments in Park and Cemetery. A less 
•cumbersome method and one used in 
most modern cemeteries is a plat rec- 
ord with all graves correspondingly 
numbered. 
J. T. Y., Virginia. Where lots are 
assessed annually, what is the best 
method for collecting same from de- 
linquent members? 
Ans. An effective method has been 
the adoption of a law that prohibits 
any interment in a lot against which 
there is a claim for annual care. Mr. 
Frank Eurich makes these sugges- 
tions: A good live collector might 
be of some help; it might also be 
effective to threaten to display at the 
office a list of delinquents. Prepay- 
ment for all work without fear or 
favor is the surest preventative. 
P. O., Penn, (l) Is it right to 
allow Sunday funerals? (2) Would 
it not be right to forbid children in 
cemetery if not accompanied by par- 
ents? 
Ans. Sunday funerals have be§n 
discontinued in many Catholic and 
Protestant cemeteries and they are 
being discouraged at cemeteries gen- 
erally where the rules do not posi- 
tively prohibit them. 
than others, almost every house no mat- 
ter how informal its general character, 
is composed of rigid straight lines and 
definite angles. There is therefore al- 
most always a rightness in some for- 
mality immediately about such a struc- 
ture. This formality may not go so far 
as to involve exact symmetry or balance 
and the gradual cession of any sort of 
formality, the merging of this sort of 
design into the free and informal na- 
tural surroundings is of the utmost im- 
portance in securing that unity and har- 
mony without which no design is suc- 
cessful. 
(To be continued.) 
Children too young to observe the 
rules of a cemetery should not be al- 
lowed to enter the grounds without 
some one in charge of them. 
J. B., La. What is the best mate- 
rial to be used in building drives, 
making them dustless and noiseless; 
also for making w’alks, other than 
Schillinger, for pedestrians? 
Ans.: Experience in constructing 
park drives has demonstrated within 
the last few years that most of the 
forms hitherto found successful can, 
owing to modern forms of traffic, no 
longer be employed with success, re- 
sulting as they do in excessive main- 
tenance costs. 
A park drive should possess some 
qualities which are not strictly neces- 
sary in ordinary traffic streets, name- 
ly those properties w'hich are con- 
ducive to quietness, comfort in travel- 
ing and color effect. 
It is usual, moreover for park auth- 
orities to be so cramped for funds and 
forced to take up the road problem 
on such comprehensive lines that the 
matter of economy plays an important 
part in the selection of a pavement. 
In meeting all these conditions, 
probably the most successful park 
pavement thus far introduced has 
been that of asphaltic concrete, laid 
in a macadam foundation. This pave- 
ment can be easily and economically 
laid by the park commissions, with 
there own forces and plant at a cost 
of approximately one-third of the 
usual price paid for standard types. 
In composition, the pavement con- 
sists of a stone aggregate, so graded 
as to contain particles ranging from 
to yp in diameter to fine dust, 
combined to form a minimum per- 
centage of voids, and mixed while in 
a dry state with approximately ten 
per cent of tar asphalt binder. 
In the selection of this binder, con- 
sideration must be given to climatic 
conditions of the locality, as for in- 
stance, a binder to fee successful in 
the comparatively torrid climate of 
New Orleans should of necessity give 
a higher melting point than one em- 
ployed in a northern latitude. 
For park service, many of the soft- 
er types of rock may be used suc- 
cessfully, resulting in an even more 
rubber-like and resilient composition 
than in the case of harder mineral 
aggregate. 
Myron H. West. 
J. G., Washington. What is the 
best way to keep roads free from 
weeds? Our roads are surfaced with 
fine gravel. 
.A.ns. A number of excellent chem- 
ical weed exterminators used for this 
purpose are advertised in Park and 
Cemetery. Care should be taken to 
apply such exterminators when the 
roads are sufficiently moist to allow 
the liquid to get down to the roots. 
A. R. Gross, Supt. Mount Green- 
wood Cemetery Morgan Park, 111., 
furnishes the following formula for 
a Weed Killer on drives with com- 
ments on its use as a result of ex- 
periments in that cemetery. “To 20 
lbs. White Arsenic add 15 gal. soft 
water, stir and boil, then add 35 
gal. soft water, 40 lbs. Caustic Soda; 
boil again, — stir constantly. Use 50 
gal. cast iron kettle. When using 
take one pail poison to four pails 
water and spray on weeds with 
sprinkling can (galvanized). 
Above is deadly poison — don’t get 
on hands, if so wash well with clear 
water. 
For many years past this solution 
has been applied to the drives in 
Mount Greenwood Cemetery where 
weeds have made their appearance. 
The application is always made im- 
mediately after a rain so that the 
solution will go directly to the roots 
and not be lost by the stone absorb- 
ing it. Shortly after the appearance 
of the sun the weeds treated turn 
brown and within a few days entire- 
ly disappear. Great care must be ex- 
ercised in the application to nrevent 
spraying any of the solution on the 
grass edge as that also will turn 
brown and be an eye-sore for a long 
time. 
The cost of the chemicals combined 
with the labor of preparing and ap- 
plying is very small and the result 
is far more satisfactory than the an- 
tique practice of weeding. 
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