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COMMUNITY GROUP OF RECREATION BUILDINGS 
One of the most interesting and con- 
• venient groupings of service and recrea- 
tion buildings that has much of suggestion 
in it is the group in Peninsula Park, Port- 
necting the two gymnasium buildings. In 
the center, and enclosed on all sides by 
these structures, is a swimming pool 50x100 
feet. The arrangement seems to be an ex- 
spring by filling the southeast quarter with 
top soil to a depth of two feet ; fourteen 
thousand roses were planted in the gar- 
den ; the foundations for two brick steps 
land, Ore., the plan of which is illustrated 
here. 
Forming the corners of a general tri- 
angular plan are three buildings, men’s and 
women’s gymnasia, and a general service 
building, embracing library, lunch room 
and offices. Connecting the general build- 
ing with the gymnasia and forming two 
sides of the triangle are the locker rooms, 
showers and toilets. Forming the rear or 
long side of the triangle is a pergola, con- 
cellent one for the convenience of the 
administration and in service to the patrons. 
The swimming pool was completed last 
year and contracts have been let for the 
completion of the other buildings in this 
community group. 
Peninsula Park includes seventeen acres, 
and improvement work has been proceed- 
ing rapidly in it. The completion of the 
grading in the garden was executed in the 
were constructed and those of two others 
of greater elaboration are in process of 
construction ; tile of the walk drain sys- 
tem has been put in place. Concrete walks 
have been laid throughout the park north 
of the garden and a concrete wading pool 
and concrete walls of the sand court built. 
Ornamental concrete light standards have 
been erected and finished grading done in 
the boys’ and girls’ play areas. 
TREATMENT OF SPRING PLANTED NURSERY STOCK 
By E. M. Swiggett, Superintendent of Parks , Utica, N. Y. 
In a previous article I took up the im- 
portance of doing municipal planting in the 
fall, but owing to many things, notably 
Arbor Day, necessity for securing quick 
results, etc., there will always be a mini- 
mum amount of planting, at least, done in 
the spring. Since this is the case, and, 
equally, since facilities for watering newly 
planted stock are often inadequate, results 
obtained here may be of value to other 
park superintendents, public officials and 
owners of suburban estates. 
The spring of 1911 in Utica began about 
April 15th, and from that date to May 
30th climatic conditions were bad for 
planting. There was scarcely any rain to 
amount to anything and the mercury 
showed 100 degrees in the shade about 
May 28, 1911. The next spring, 1912, there 
was one bright, warm week in which to 
plant, then followed rain, rain, rain, and 
all the time it was intensely cold. The 
rain was followed by an eight-weeks’ 
drought. The newly planted stock in 1912 
made no headway on account of the cold, 
even with plenty of rain, and, of course, 
after the cold the blasting heat, dryness 
and almost continual high, west winds pre- 
vented growth. 
This year again spring began about April 
15th and for four weeks it was, at times, 
very hot ; at times it has been so cold 
water froze, and until now it has been very 
dry throughout the planting season. 
In all three seasons the nursery stock 
has had to be planted in the spring on 
high, exposed knolls where a water sys- 
tem had not yet been installed. 
The treatment : 
The nursery stock was all clipped back 
heavily, much further than stock planted 
in the fall, but, even at that, we lost some 
stock, and in every case it was the plants 
which had been clipped the least which 
succumbed soonest. The moral is, clip 
back as heavily in the spring as all plants- 
men clip when planting anything and then 
clip off six to eight inches more, in pro- 
portion to the kind and height of the 
stock. Clip off at least two feet from the 
longest branches of fourteen- foot stock, 
one foot 'off for twelve-foot stock, ten 
inches for ten-foot, and so on. 
We found out the first year of the 
