PARK AND CEMETERY, 
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PARKS, CEMETERIES, ARBORETA AND GARDENS. 
Copyright 1898. By James MacPherson. 
the ground. A landscape cannot be planted to 
please on the basis of the orders. 
In the accompanying plan the Dicotyledones 
commence at the lake with the Ranunculus alliance, 
and the sequence of the Geneva Plantar urn and al- 
lied works is followed to the top where it ends with 
grasses. The ferns are also included. Those who 
prefer “Die Pjla nzen fa in il ien would of course pre- 
fer to march up the hill, begin there, and then 
march down again. 
For a park the most noble trees and thrifty 
shrubs should alone be planted, and the natives 
should predominate. An arboretum may include 
far greater variety. For a garden the herbs are in- 
cluded. These are on the plan in dots representing 
six feet or so wide round beds on the grass, because 
in such shape they are easy to mow around and 
manage with a minimum of dug ground; and be- 
sides in masses they make a far more effective dis- 
play. They look natural too — not formal. Of 
course only the very best should be selected in each 
allied group, and the method of planting by inter- 
section should be employed more frequently. Two 
species in intersection may often keep a bed gay 
throughout the season if one be a low early, and the 
other a taller late flowering species. But almost 
anyone in a new locality will need to test the dura- 
tion and well doing of perennial and annual herbs 
in the nursery. This will be an advantage afford- 
ing opportunity to propagate whatever is best 
