PARK AND CEMETERY. 
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troublesome, is the mouse-ear chickweed ; it has 
rough leaves, darker than those of the common 
chickweed. 
Dandelion. The dandelion (Taraxacum dens- 
leonis) is another common lawn weed. If worst 
comes to worst you can get even with this plant by 
eating it for dinner. It is not as difficult to eradi- 
cate as the plantain or the chickweed, although if 
the wind be allowed to scatter the delicate feathery 
seeds a generous crop will reward your negligence. 
COLUMBARIUM, SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. 
Herewith is given a sketch of the Columbarium 
that is about to be erected at the Odd Fellows’ 
Cemetery, San Francisco, Cal., from designs of 
COLUMBARIUM, ODD FELLOWS’ CEMETERY. 
Messrs. Cahill & Condon, architects. From four to 
six bodies per week are cremated at this cemetery, 
and the ashes of some 3O0 people are awaiting per- 
manent disposition. 
The building will be located on the site of the 
old fish pond, and will occupy a space ninety feet in 
diameter. I11 general form the budding will be circu- 
lar, with four wings united by quadrants, making 
a second circle in the interior. The style will be 
Italian renaissance, and the walls will be of brick, 
covered with cement. Granite steps will lead to the 
main entrance, access being obtained through the 
handsome bronze grill doors to a monumental vesti- 
bule paved in mosaic. The cost will be about 
$40,000. 
The main feature of the columbarium will be 
the rotunda. Eight steel columns will rise to a he'ght 
of three stories, supporting a dome fifty feet in dia- 
meter, and leading, by means of marble stairways, 
to galleries extending to the wings and quadrants. 
A rich effect will be produced by the art-glass cov- 
erings of all of the light openings and the marble 
and bronze of the tablets, panels, pilasters and cor 
nices within the dome. This will be further height- 
ened by the presence of artistic urns of bronze or 
alabaster in full view from the rotunda, while back 
wall space will be reserved for niches for the less 
costly receptacles of ashes. These niches will be 
sold singly or in groups, and in front of each will 
be a marble slab bearing the name of the dead, or 
a bronze gate, upon which space will be left for the 
record of the dead. 
PLAZA, ALAMEDA AND PASEO IN THE CITY OF 
MEXICO. 
II. 
PLAN OF THE ALAMEDA. 
O proceed from the Plaza 
Mayor upon a tour of 
observation of the Ala- 
meda and Paseo, one 
hasbutto traverse what, 
in an American city, 
would be a single street. 
In the City of Mexico, however, it is a succes- 
sion of streets in direct line, with names chang- 
ing with each block, sometimes having differ- 
ent names on each side. It starts from nearly 
opposite the northern side of the Zocalo Garden, as 
the Primera Calle de los Plateros, (first street ot 
the Plateros. ) It runs westerly and changes its 
name to the Second street of the Plateros in the 
next bio :k. Then it becomes in succession the 
Third, Second and the First streets of San Francis- 
co, and the Puente (Bridge) of San Francisco. But 
the Third street of San Francisco is known also, on 
one side at least, as La Profesa, because of the great 
church there located ; and the first is known also 
as Guardiola. There are open spaces (plazuelas or 
ZOCALO GARDEN AND CATHEDRAL. 
little plazas) at these points between the street and 
the buildings, and in pursuit of the gardening fad of 
1885 the city planted tropical flowers and shrubs 
