VI 
PARK AND CEMETERY. 
A Reflection on our Civilization. 
The author of the series of articles on 
Residence Streets now appearing in these 
columns would recommend planting more 
of the flowering shrubs were it not for the 
fact that we do not yet seem to be suffi- 
cently civilized as a people, to admire the 
beautiful without destroying it. That he 
is not far from right in his premises was 
very forcibly brought home to the pub- 
lisher of Park and Cemetery a few 
days ago on discovering that his front yard 
hid been despoiled of a Mugho pine, one 
of a group that had been sent him from 
the Douglas nursei ies. The little beauty 
had been pulled up by some passer-by in 
the night. In comparison with this and 
similar depredations that are all too com- 
mon the following incident is not without 
interest. Eight years ago, a Chicago lady 
who was travelling in Japan, had her at- 
tention called by the guide to an exquisite 
piece of Japanese carving, that had been 
set into the gate post at the entrance 
to the home of a well to do person. 
The delicacy of the carving caused 
the American Visitor to express sur- 
prise that such a valuable piece of art 
work should be left out of doors, but was 
told that the owner took that way of let- 
ting all the people enjoy it. Last year, 
Japan was revisited by this lady and 0 n 
reaching this town one of the sights which 
her guide pointed out was the same bit of 
carving that she had seen seven years be- 
fore. And her surprise at finding it un- 
marred in the least particular may be bet- 
ter imagined than described. The Japan- 
ese may be commercial imitators of ours 
but here is one characteristic which they 
possess as a people in which they are 
vastly superior to us. 
* * * 
All the flowers of the arctic region are 
siid to be either white or yellow, and there 
are 762 varieties. 
* * * 
The Japanese cultivate crysanthemums 
in 269 varieties of colors. Of these 87 are 
white, 63 yellow, 31 pink 30 red, 12 russet, 
and 14 of mixed hues. 
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Evergreens, Trailers, Ornamentals. 
( To Parks, 
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f Landscape Architects. 
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Abies excels!, inverta, 4- to 5 feet. 
Plnus strobus nanus, 2 feet. 
Arborvitae globosa, 2 % feet. 
Maples, Norway and Sugar, IO to 12 
feet. 
Willow, Golden Bark, S to IO feet. 
Purple Beech, Rivers and Seedlings. 
5 to 12 feet. 
Berberis, Thunbergi, 1% to 3 feet. 
Viburnum plicatum, 5 to 6 feet. 
Exochorda, grandiflora, 3 to 5 feet, 
Rosa wiohuriana, 2 to 6 feet. 
Yucca filamentosa, blooming plants- 
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