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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
Central and South American, but Vauquelinea 
Torreyi extends north to the United States along 
the Mexican border. Quillaja saponaria,' (not to 
be confounded with “Quillaia” of the Kew guides) 
and Ivageneckia crataegoides have both stood on 
walls in the south of England. Euchryphia pinna- 
tifolia is from Chili, (as are the two last); both it 
and E. Billardieri in its variety from Tasmania, 
stand in southern England without much shelter. 
They are evergreen trees and shrubs of some merit, 
and may possibly stand a living chance in parts 
of the Gulf states and southern California. 
Rubits, “blackberries” “raspberries”, etc., have 
maybe ioo good species, and anywhere in the 
neighborhood of 1,000 names; they have given bot- 
anists a greal deal of trouble just to collect, exam- 
ine, and mount them, write names for them, get 
them printed, and circulated. After all it is hard 
to find a thoroughly good garden plant among them. 
They are found from the frozen zones to the tropical 
mountains in most parts of the world, those from 
the mild climates being evergreen. A few are mere 
herbs. Among the showiest are R. biflorus with 
stems as if whitewashed, from the Himalayas; R. 
odoratus, R. Nutkanus, R. spectabilis and varieties, 
R. thrysoideus in some varieties, R. deliciosus and 
the dwarf R. arcticus. There are also double forms. 
Cercocarpits in 5 species, and a few varieties are 
natives of the Rocky Mountain regions, California 
and Mexico. C. ledifolius, “mountain mahogany,” 
is a low spreading evergreen tree frequent in Utah 
and Nevada. Occasionally it attains to thirty feet 
high, and should be of about the same hardihood as 
the shrubby C. parvifolius grown in southern Eng- 
land. This latter species extends further eastwards, 
however, and has been found at moderate altitudes 
in Colorado, and even on the Upper Mississippi, it 
is said; but it is not recorded by Gray. 
Geum has 30 species in the temperate and cold 
regions, one having wandered to South Africa. 
They are herbs with bright flowers — -scarlet, yellow 
and white in several shades. They have yielded 
several fine doubles, which together with some of 
the species are in gardens. 
Frctgraria, strawberries, have half a dozen or so 
of good species, and quite a number of new varie- 
ties every year, each one of which, is reckoned big- 
ger, sweeter, redder, and at least 10 days earlier 
than anything before known! They are widely 
distributed over the northern hemisphere, and south 
to the mountains of the tropics. There are Alpine 
forms on the Mountains of India naturally fruiting 
in Dec. -Jan., and there they can take strawberry 
ice, a little ice with one hand, the fruit with the 
other. The yellow flowered, scarlet fruited, running 
kind, F. Indica.so freely naturalized from New Jersey 
southwards is a good example of the facility with 
which certain East Indian plants adapt themselves 
to rigorous climates. It may not be known that the 
fruit makes a fair jam with sugar and plenty of 
lemon. 
Pote 7 itilla has 160 species and names uncount- 
able. They are mostly herbs, but occasionally 
frutescent, natives of most parts of the temperate 
and cold regions of the northern Hemisphere. They 
have scarlet, crimson, yellow, and white flowers; 
several are grown in gardens, and there is no doubt 
but they are capable of still further improvement. 
P. fruticosa and vars., has a wide distribution over 
t iree continents. Not very long ago a famous 
Landscape Architect sent to Wisconsin for a car- 
load or two of it to plant at Madison, N. J. ! 
Several genera of the tribe Poterieoe also include 
plants sometimes seen in botanic and nursery gar- 
dens. 
Trenton, N. J. James MacPherson. 
LADIES’ LAVATORY, PROSPECT PARK, BROOKLYN. 
The accompanying elevation and plan represent 
the new Ladies’ Lavatory erected in Prospect Park, 
Brooklyn, from designs of Messrs. Parfitt Bros., 
architects, Brooklyn, N. Y. It is an example of a 
substantial, handsomely finished park structure, de- 
signed on appropriate lines to fit the surroundings. 
The foundation is of stone with Blue stone water 
table. The wall to tilt course, is built of 12 in. by 
1 y 2 in. amber color pressed brick laid in red mor- 
tar, and the sides, above brick wall are covered with 
7 in. by 16 in. plain red Celadon Tiles, laid to show 
6 in. to the weather. The trimmings to windows 
and eave moulding is of wood, painted light olive 
in the two colors. The eaves are panelled. The 
roof is covered with fancy Conosera Celadon red 
roofing tiles, with heavy ridge and hip tiles, — all 
being especially designed for the purpose. The 
tiles give the building a very picturesque effect 
among the trees. 
The plaza in front, as also the entire floor of the 
building, is covered with red and blue concrete in 
diamonds and squares. 
