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JULY, 1914 
EDITORIAL 
VOL. XXIV No. 5 
Suggestions For Model Cemetery Exhibit 
Editor Park and Cemetery: You have expressed the hope of 
seeing a model cemetery exhibition and this has set the writer to 
dreaming. 
Our granite and marble manufacturers and producers spend con- 
siderable time and money making an exhibit of their wares at the 
annual convention of the Retail Monument Dealers. The florists, 
likewise, hold annual flower shows in the large cities. Our large 
cemeteries still have vacant and practically uncultivated ground- 
in some places. Furthermore, there are some good designers en- 
gaged in the trade. To bring these people together, co-ordinating 
under the head of a landscape architect of recognized ability and 
authority, is perhaps a visionary scheme, but it might be done with 
profit to all. His services would cost considerable money. To 
get the monument men and the florists together at an advantageous 
season of the year is another problem. However, let us lo'-k 
ahead a little, assuming that these things can be done. At a mid- 
winter session of the dealers a grand competition and exhibition 
of designs might be held, and in this connection it would be pos- 
sible to get a number of our colleges of architecture to co- 
operate and submit designs in addition to those of the trade. A 
jury of artists, headed by the landscape architect, would pass upon 
the designs and accept all that had merit. 
Among the designs selected, the wholesale manufacturers could 
certainly find much good material on which to exhibit their skill 
instead of getting up designs of their own, as they now do. 
Having the designs apportioned among the manufacturers for 
execution, our landscape architect could then lay out his plans in 
co-operation with the florists. 
Such an exhibition would necessarily have to be held in a large 
city in the center of a numerous population. 
This is a sketch of the dream. If you think there is anything 
practical in it which might be taken hold of by a financial and all- 
around genius and realized, hunt him out. 
St. Louis, Mo. Percy W. Rosebrough. 
Government Model Roads and Road Service 
Arrangements are to be made by the Lhiited States Department 
of Agriculture, through Logan Waller Page, Director of the Office 
of Public Roads, to place on exhibition at the Panama-Pacific 
Exposition in 191 S the greatest collection of road models ever 
displayed in any parts of the world. The models will furnish 
exact duplicates of the old Roman roads, French roads, and all 
of the various types of modern roads, together with miniature 
models of road machinery operated by electricity. The Office of 
Public Roads made an exhibit of road models for the first time 
at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition. The aim was to put on 
view such striking examples in miniature of road models that vis- 
itors would not only appreciate the beneficent effects of improved 
highways, but would, at the same time, be able to understand the 
methods of their construction. Since the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific 
Exposition closed, the exhibit has been displayed at Omaha. Neb., 
during the National Corn Exposition; at Knoxville, Tenn.. during 
the Southern Appalachian Exposition; at Chicago, 111., during the 
National Land and Irrigation Exposition; at New York City, dur- 
ing the Travel and Vacation Exposition and the Domestic Science 
Exposition; at Atlantic City, N. J., during the American Road 
Congress ; at Lethbridge, Alberta, during the International Dry- 
land Congress; at Buenos Aires, Argentina, during the Interna- 
tional Agricultural Exposition ; at Turin, Italy, during the Inter- 
national Exposition, and at various other expositions and fairs. 
Since that time the collection has been greatly augmented, until 
every single type of road is now represented, and every known 
device used in the making of roads has been reproduced in minia- 
ture. The models have also been displayed on road trains at all 
important places along the route of the Pennsylvania Railroad in 
the state of Pennsylvania, the entire system of the Southern Rail- 
way, the Frisco Lines, the Atlantic Coast Line, and the Nash- 
ville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Railway. As a result of the in- 
struction furnished by these road models, many farmers have 
joined forces to improve their own highways, and the road-building 
movement has had a great impetus. When application for expert 
advice concerning any special road problem is made to the De- 
partment, the Office of Public Roads furnishes it without exact- 
ing any fees. 
Editorial Notes 
Results from Western white pine plantations three seasons or 
more old show an average of 97 per cent success. On average 
white pine soil, planting can be conducted for from $5 to $5 per 
acre. 
Forest botanists recognize only one cypress in the United States. 
Its range extends from Delaware southward around the coast into 
Texas and up the Mississippi valley to Illinois and Indiana It is 
one of the few cone-bearing trees which drop their leaves in 
winter. The heartwood of cypress is noted for its decav-resistant 
properties. 
The Chinese National Conservation Bureau is considering re- 
forestation at the headwarters of the Yellow River. The govern- 
ment report shows that this will ameliorate the torrents and cause 
a more regular flow from the now denuded uplands. It is ac- 
knowledged, however, that this reforestation may not have an 
appreciable effect within the lifetime of the present generation. 
In preparation for the coming fire season in California, 110 miles 
of fire lines have been built on the Sierra national forest. 
A two-year-old plantation of Douglas fir on the Oregon national 
forest shows 94 per cent of the trees living. Extensive plantings 
of young trees in Washington and Oregon are costing only $8 an 
acre. Direct seeding of lodgepole pine has been successful with- 
out exception on the Arapaho national forest, Colorado. Several 
of the areas sown two and three years ago show from 5,000 to 
10,000 seedlings per acre. 
The State of Pennsylvania celebrates two arbor days each year — 
one for spring planting and one for the fall — in April and Octo- 
ber, respectively. 
Nearly three million young trees are being set out this spring 
on the national forests of northern Idaho and Montana. On the 
St. Joe National Forest in Idaho three thousand acres will be 
planted. 
