PARK AND CEMETERY. 
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RESIDENCE STREETS —XII. 
( Concluded . ) 
It may be well to name again, in a general way, 
the various features of residence streets, calling 
especial attention to those in which most improve- 
ment can be made. The constructed parts, the 
roadway and the sidewalks, should be made for 
use. They should be smooth, hard, durable, 
shaped so that storm water will readily run off, 
and should receive constant care so that they will 
sion having been that it was a gentleman’s private 
drive. If other people had the same idea with 
regard to the streets upon which they live, this 
parklike planting might extend indefinitely and add 
greatly to the attractiveness of the residence por- 
tion of our cities. Not only would the streets 
themselves be greatly improved in appearance, but 
I believe the influence of such treatment would 
extend to the home grounds. 
I wish ihat the appreciation of beautiful streets 
Fig. 22. — GRAND ROULEVARD, CHIGAGO. 
Anjexample'of the way leading thoroughfares are disfigured in large cities. 
be kept clean and neat. The ornamental part, that 
is the parkways and the boundary planting on each 
street, should be treated in such a way as to take 
advantage of our wonderfully varied forms of 
plant life. A gentleman owning the land on both 
sides of a street in a city of northern Illinois, has 
removed the fences and planted in their places 
quantities of barberry bushes, Japan quince, buck- 
thorns, prickly ash and sweet briars. The park- 
ways retain some of the native trees, and there has 
been additional planting. Elms, lindens, maples, 
oaks and other trees have been used, and also red 
branched dogwoods, syringas and viburnums. The 
groups planted are as irregular as the native 
growth. Recently a man from another city, after 
having ridden through this street, was surprised to 
find that it was a public thoroughfare, his impres- 
might become so great that people would be as 
shocked to see the enormous signs now extending 
along some of our principal residence streets as 
the gentleman first referred to would be to find a 
great sign in front of his home. Think of a 
beautiful drive or walk through one of our large 
city parks, and imagine the effect of a great sign 
staring at you from among its trees and shrubs, 
with the announcement that some one has soap or 
shoes to sell. Of course such an intrusion would 
not be tolerated. It ought to seem just as bad to 
have it next to our houses. If public sentiment is 
not strong enough to bring about a reform, the 
matter ought to be remedied by city ordinances. 
With a little more study, and a little more 
observation, but without any greater expenditure 
of money than is put upon many streets at the 
