PARK AND CEMETERY. 
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A GOOD BEGINNING. 
The Clematis Jackmanni shown in the illustra- 
tion is planted at the base of an artificial stump — a 
far better situation for most vines than at the base 
of a real stump. It is a section cut from the top of 
the trunk of the old red cedar tree that stands close 
beside it. This trunk is also an artificial stump, 
because the tree grew elsewhere and after being 
grubbed out, was reset where, in my opinion, it 
would do the most good. 
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Both are placed just outside the walk (though 
not directly in line) that passes along the east side 
CLEMATIS JACKMANNI. 
of the house from the front to the rear entrance. 
A walk is an objectionable feature in this location, 
but one that is sometimes unavoidable. They 
stand about midway of the length of the building 
and at the point where the small front lawn merges 
into an irregular shrubbery border that partly 
screens the fruit and vegetable garden. The Cle- 
matis had been growing for two years (over a large 
low artificial stump) in its present position before 
the new “ arrangement in stumps ” was decided on, 
and that accounts for the disparity in size between 
it and the newly set Akebia quinata on the cedar 
trunk. Next year the rather too “stumpy” and skel- 
eton-like appearance will be overcome, forthe short 
spurs on the trunk will support the twiner as it 
grows (this season’s growth has carried it nearly to 
the branching limbs), and when it reaches the 
forked branches, part of the vine will be led across 
each of them to an iron rod set horizontally below 
the eaves of the one-story part of the roof and one 
at the same level, around the east and south roof 
of the front porch, which begins just beyond the 
double window shown in the picture. 
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Together, the vines will furnish an informal 
arch of flowers and foliage at a point where it will 
agreeably break the too great length of the side of 
the house. A desirable result that it seemed im- 
possible to attain by any other means, because no 
trees are wanted so near the house, and the walk 
makes shrubbery out of the question. Moreover, 
the irregular and rather picturesque roof line and 
general style of the dwelling, when seen as a whole, 
is in harmony with this somewhat unusual effect of 
planting. 
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Ampelopsis Veitchii has this fall been set in the 
narrow border at the base of the brick foundation 
seen in the picture and which is part of a new ad- 
dition. A few large leaves that stray into the pic- 
ture at the extreme right belong to a grape vine 
trained on a screen bordering the walk on one side, 
and serving as a background to part of the shrub- 
bery border mentioned. This border outlines the 
north end and east side of the lawn, and it is inter- 
mingled and faced in places with herbaceous plants 
and annuals that assist the flowering shrubs in sup- 
plying an embroidery of color throughout the border 
from spring until frost. It is a simple, inexpensive 
design, and easily cared for, yet decidedly pleasing, 
and until this past spring the only example of its 
kind in the village. Fra7ices Copley Seavey. 
TREES NOT TO PLANT IN PARKS AND CEME- 
TERIES. 
The Locust Tree ( Robinia Psendacacia), or False 
Acacia, is certainly beautiful. Of rapid growth, 
it makes slender, tall trees within a few years, and 
the branches are what Gray calls “ naked,” in that 
the foliage is loosely and lightly disposed on 
them, and the fragrant white flowers are in slender 
depending racemes, pea-shaped and followed by flat 
seed-pods. Gray says, in his Botany, that “in the 
Middle and Southern States the Locust-Tree is 
planted, but in the Northern States has run wild.” 
He might well have said that it escapes culture 
wherever it grows. Therein lies the objection to it 
as a tree for parks. The roots are rizhoma, running 
like leather whip-cords in all directions and freely 
sending up young plants. These younglings are 
vigorous, and, if let alone, grow rapidly in all 
positions where a tree may stand. If the main tree 
be cut, or blown down, for years after these riz- 
