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thickly planted with a great variety of trees and 
shrubs, a variety to make it look as much like a 
spontaneous growth as possible, and well has the 
design been carried out. Pleasure seekers are not 
permitted to land on the Island from their boats, 
notices posted here and there informing them of the 
fact. Nothing but water fowl inhabited it so far as 
I could see. 
The flower beds in this and other parks present 
a charming appearance in the summer season, so 
many more plants are available than our hot suns will 
permit. -For instance, beds of fuchsias, tall growers 
in the centre, and a dwarf, Golden Gem, bordering 
them. Another, fuchsias in the centre, red colored, 
bordered with white pansies and blue lobelias. 
And roses were everywhere, some of them in 
large clumps and others singly or festooning large 
shrubs, in a semi-wild state. I saw a large clump 
of the common day rose in bloom, the plants per- 
haps 7 feet high, and all as full as they could be of 
flowers. The scene indeed was so enchanting that 
as I recall it, I can say with Zelica: 
“There’s a bower of roses by 
Bendemeer’s stream, 
And the Nightingale sings round 
it all the day long: 
In the time of my childhood 
’twas like a sweet dream, 
To sit in the roses and 
hear the bird’s song: 
That bower and its music 
I never forget, 
But oft when alone, in the 
bloom of the year 
I think— is the Nightingale 
singing there yet? 
Are the roses still bright by 
the calm Bendemeer, 
I think the memory of beautiful scenes lingers 
long with those who love nature. Park AND 
CEMETERY is doing a good work for our country in 
its encouragement of those who aim to lay out 
beautiful grounds, and the lovely pictures of parks 
and other public places with which it embellishes its 
pages from time to time, show that we are advanc- 
ing with rapid pace to take our 
place alongside of the best of Eu- 
rope. Joseph Meehan. 
TRUE OUTLINES IN CURVED 
DRIVES. 
In all modern cemeteries where 
the curved drive is an essential 
part to true landscape art it is 
oftimes a problem to the super- 
intendent to know how to keep the 
true outlines of the avenue 
The writer has in mind a large 
cemetery which is considered a well 
managed place, but if the visitor 
will look along the borders of the 
avenue he will find them to have 
a very unsymmetrical appearance. 
This, of course, is caused by the 
men having no guide for the line 
when trimming with the edging 
knives. Where drives are straight it is only nec- 
essary to use an ordinary line for a guide. This 
method can also be applied to curves which are very 
gradual, using a small portion of the line at a time. 
In localities where the soil is a heavy clay loam 
the difficulty to preserve the outlines will be found 
much greater than where the soil is of a sandy na- 
ture. In heavy soil the frost will raise the border, 
and in the spring time when the frost is gone the 
earth will have a tendency to work its way on to 
the macadam of the road. This naturally gives the 
grass a chance to take root and overgrow the road. 
It is generally conceded that gutters are un- 
sightly and out of place; but if two vitrified or any 
good hard brick be placed in the gutter line (see 
accompanying cut A A) they will preserve the out- 
E A XT ft 
line, almost unnoticed, as enough stone will work 
off the road to wholly or partially cover them. This 
will make it an easy matter to use the edging knife. 
But if the macadam is allowed to meet the sod the 
stone protruding from the road will be found always 
interfering with the knife . — Bellett Lawson , Jr. 
THF. LAKE, T1NSBURY PARK, LONDON. 
