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the trees. The trees were of various species, but 
were said to be dangerous on account of age with 
consequent falling of limbs, and were in the way of 
so-called improvements — flagging and curbing. 
They have been replaced by young Norway ma- 
CENTRE AVE. , BEFORE REMOVAL OF TREES. 
CENTRE AVE., AFTER REMOVAL OF TREES. 
pies. The contrast in the illustrations teaches a 
lesson, and clearly suggests the preservation of old 
trees rather than their destruction. Generations 
must pass away before the young trees will meet 
every consideration conserved in the old ones, and 
from a certain standpoint they never will. 
We are indebted to Mr. John A. Hepler, assis- 
tant superintendent, for the photographs and details 
from which the foregoing has been prepared. 
A PLANTING CHART FOR GARDEN PLANTS. II. 
Some thirty years ago a local Horticultural So- 
ciety in India proposed the extension of a Govern- 
ment Garden, and the then President of the Society 
and Commissioner of the District (a Mr. Breek’s 
if I remember) seemed to take considerable inter- 
est in a proposal which the accompanying plan 
makes clear. 
The proposal was to “trace” a road from the 
summit of “Dodabetta” (a mountain of nearly 
9000 feet) down to the first “saddle” at a grade of 
1 foot in 18, and plant allied groups of trees and 
shrubs in the spaces between the roads. 
Part of the mountain was occupied by a Gov- 
ernment Cinchona (quinine) plantation; other por- 
tions were in private plantations, and still others in 
the hands of natives; no steps were taken to acquire 
these latter up to the time of my leaving India. 
During the interval the Genera Plantarum of 
Bentham & Hooker has been completed and as I 
have previously remarked in “Park AND Ceme- 
tery,” their elaboration of De Candolles groups is 
better fitted to a well balanced planting than any 
with which I either am now, or have been ac- 
quainted. The faults are that a few of the groups 
such as Rosales, Unisexales, Narcissales and Glum- 
ales are too large, and I may add too, that they are 
too uneven in their designations. They do not form 
a consistent series of names, and their terminology 
is far from uniform. Even at the expense of some 
violence to the Greek and Latin it would be worth 
while to remedy these things. As a preliminary 
the alliance terms used by Lindley, Bromhead, and 
others, have been partially restored in these papers, 
and such terms as Euphorbiales, Urticales, Musales, 
Cyperales, etc., are under consideration. They are 
not new to gardeners, and there seems no sufficient 
reason to set them aside for others less well known. 
Good allied groups offer abundant varied mater- 
ial for the landscape gardener anywhere in the fer- 
tile parts of the world. 
They are composed of tribes of genera and 
species, and it seems to me that the tribes with a 
uniform terminology of eae are better than the ex- 
isting confusion of orders, sub-orders, sub-tribes 
and anomali. I was surprised sometime' ago to re- 
ceive an opinion from a leading scientist to the ef- 
fect that no one thought it necessary to render the 
tribal characters of the Genera Plantarum into En- 
glish! He differs in his opinion from any plantsman 
with whom I am acquainted. A good catechism 
with Books for the Divisions, Chapters for the Alli- 
ances and Verses for the full tribal characters would 
probably do more to simplify plant knowledge than 
any one thing. But I often doubt if scientists 
really desire to simplify anything. If they do why 
all the confusion of tongues? There is but little ex- 
cuse for it now. So much for the mere "Teufels- 
drochiana.” 
The disposition on the ground of plants them- 
selves so that their distinctive features and beauty 
may be displayed to those who care or care but 
little to know them, should always be simple. Any 
handbook should correspond, and the Botanies of 
the English-speaking world do in a varied way 
agree as to the great divisions. But I may again 
assert that neither Bentham and Hooker nor any 
other Botanists have ever proposed the effective 
transfer of their lineally arranged minor groups to 
