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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
to time. It is only necessary to observe that the 
plan is an elastic one, for although certain features 
are absolute, the aspect and arrangement in whole 
and in detail must necessarily vary with every zone 
and every piece of ground. 
The Polypetalous groups run from left to right 
around their lawn, as do all others, and are em- 
braced in the numbers from I to 15. Monopetaleae 
from 16 to 25. Apetalae from 26 to 33. Gymnos- 
permous Coniferales 34 to 34A Endogens from 35 
to 41 a, and Ferns and their allies 42. 
Building and other sites are reserved in the 
shelter belt of Conifers, (which may be much thick- 
ened;) at S. for stables; at M. for a small museum, 
a garden herbarium, a library and offices, at P. P. 
for porters lodges for under gardeners, etc.; at C. 
for a curators house; and at N. G. for a nursery and 
propagating house. Approaches and paths rrvay be 
formed as needed. The roads are 33 ft. 4 in. wide. 
Norway spruce, Hemlock spruce, Arbor-vitae’s, 
Yews at southern points, and the deciduous conifers 
may be used for nurse plants, and for hedging pur- 
poses around the margins. 
A park or garden such as is indicated ought not 
to cost more than from four to five thousand dollars 
for hardy materia!. The fine trees are rarely dupli- 
cated except perhaps in the case of conifers which, 
with Nos. 1 and 19, may be made the most expen- 
sive groups. If farm lands were employed the 
whole primary cost could be kept small. Mainte- 
nance is the all important consideration for such a 
planting, for it is no pie-bakers or cigarette-rollers 
institution, and the further fussy politicians keep 
from it the better. 
Annual grants supposably obtained through 
such people are the fashion, but an endowment fund 
would be far more satisfactory. 
Millionaires are given to donating college build- 
ings and battle-yachts, but they might better im- 
mortalize themselves by establishing such parks and 
gardens as are indicated, affording all the people 
an opportunity to learn things as well as words. 
In the next issue will be given a list of plants 
as a suggestive planting for the design. 
Trenton, N. J. James MacPherson. 
APPRECIATION OF NATURAL BEAUTY.” 
If people could realize and enjoy the beauty around 
them, they would be happier and belter, and the earth 
would gradually improve in appearance. They would 
see with pleasure the brightening tints of the willows 
and dog-woods that come with the first warm days of 
March, and the tinge of brown caused by thousands of 
blossoms which a little later show in the distance the 
graceful shape of the elm, then the reds and yellows 
that mark the place of the maples, and the varying 
*Paperread at the Minneapolis convention of (he American Park 
and Out-door Art Association. By <). C. Simonds, Chicago. 
shades of green as every gain in warmth and sunlight 
pushes out the young leaves from the swelling buds. 
They would note that the colors of spring are almost as 
varied as those of autumn. The little velvety leaves of 
the white oak are worth going miles to see when in May 
they hang like half-open umbrellas from the ends of the 
branchlets and range from yellowish white through pink 
to the deepest purplish red. At the same time, the large 
yellow buds of the shag bark hickory with their red 
bracts are as showy as most flowers. There is also a 
wonderful wealth of beauty in our native thorn and crab 
apple trees with their spreading shapes, their varying 
shades of foliage and their profusion of blossoms. Later 
still other members of the rose family, the spiraeas, rasp- 
berries, blackberries, and the wild roses themselves sup- 
ply bloom and color. Although during the latter part 
of summer and through the autumn months, our trees 
and shrubs do not produce flowers in abundance there 
are nearly always some to be found until those of the 
witch hazel remaining as a yellow mist after the golden 
leaves have fallen, fill the November air with perfume. 
Before the blossoms of May are gone, the seeds of the 
elm and soft maple are already ripening and from that 
time on the fruits of trees and shrubs add to the interest 
generally felt in the summer and autumn foliage. Not 
only do the flowers, leaves and fruits please us with their 
thousand shapes and colors, their surfaces sometimes 
smooth and glossy, sometimes dull and soft, but the 
trees and shrubs themselves, by the manner in which 
their foliage is massed, by their effect when seen close 
at hand or in the distance, when seen in sunshine or 
mist, in a still atmosphere or in a breeze, by daylight 
which brings out every detail or silhouetted against the 
night sky, help to make that wonderful variety and 
beauty which must surely be appreciated by all who ex- 
pect to feel at home in the next world. There is time 
merely to allude to the humbler forms of vegetation, the 
grasses and herbaceous plants that cover the earth so 
attractively, to the clouds that should be admired by 
each of us as much as they were by the poet Shelley, 
and which should be given a place in every design, to 
the varying shapes of ground surface, to the far reach- 
ing seas, and to the "tinning brooks and placid lakes 
with their rocky or leafy margins. 
Probably each of us could give illustrations showing 
how people fail to get the most out of life through ina- 
bility to see su<ch things as I have mentioned. Some 
one who attended our meeting last year, and who lived 
in Kentucky where the tulip tree grows to perfection, 
had never before seen its blossoms. In another state an 
enthusiastic board of Park Commissioners commenced 
their operations by clearing aw ay all the undergrowth, 
denuding the steep hillside as well as the valley. A 
glance at the adjoining land showed dozens of groups of 
magnificent specimens of the prairie rose. The com- 
missioners acknowledged the beauty of this growth when 
it was pointed out to them, and also their own mistake 
in having destroyed similar bushes, and they were quite 
willing to let the steep bank be, ome recovered with the 
wild grapes and roses, lindens and thorns which were 
already sprouting, from the surface after having been 
cut away by the caretaker’s scythe. This effort of na- 
ture to clothe herself in an attractive garb had also been 
unnoticed till attention was called to it. The practice 
of cutting away the undergrowth on the part of those 
who start out to make improvements is one of the most 
common sins committed against outdoor art. Many 
