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planting, 1911, the importance of dry farm- 
ing methods on shrubbery plantations. 
At first it almost seemed sheer folly to 
spade and cultivate shrubbery beds each 
week whether there had been showers or 
not, but a careful examination of plants 
in cultivated and uncultivated beds showed 
a very great difference. The plants in 
the continuously cultivated beds began to 
show a marked improvement, even in the 
drought, while those in uncultivated beds 
not only did not move, but kept going 
down, down, down. 
Last year, 1912, the drought came in 
June and July and the hot, dry winds 
literally burned the new grass black- 
brown like charcoal on the slopes where 
the shrubbery was planted with no trees 
to shade it, but the shrubs were kept cul- 
tivated, and practically all of them pulled 
through, even in places where many had 
said they could never live even had there 
been no drought. 
Another thing which helped us was that, 
in 1912, after our experience of 1911, we 
took the precaution to double the quantity 
of old manure at the bottom of the holes 
for shrubs to be planted on the worst 
slopes. Some shrubs did not leaf out until 
nearly August, but their limbs retained 
their life and leaved at last. 
Some of the treatment described here is 
necessary when planting nursery stock at 
any time, but this article is inspired by 
the fact that there have been three con- 
secutive spring planting seasons in Utica 
in which it has been most difficult to keep 
nursery stock alive after planting and have 
it do even indifferently well. 
AN AUTOMATIC LAWN SPRNKLER SYSTEM 
Improvements in Balboa Park, San 
Diego, Cal., are rapidly progressing pre- 
paratory to the Pananta-California Expo- 
sition, to be held there throughout the year 
Spanish colonial architecture in a set- 
ting of tropical and semi-tropical verdure 
will give a charm to the landscape un- 
usual at large expositions. The charac- 
ninety-seven feet of two-inch pipe and 
1,890 feet of four-inch pipe was used. The 
sprinklers are 18 to 20 1 feet apart, and when 
in action present a pretty sight, as may 
AUTOMATIC LAWN SPRINKLER SYSTEM AT WORK IN BALBOA PARK, SAN DIEGO, CAL. 
1915. More than one-third of the 1,400 
acres that comprise the park has been set 
apart for exposition purposes and are be- 
ing developed under the direction of Di- 
rector of Works Frank P. Allen, Jr. The 
city has issued a million dollars worth of 
bonds, the greater part of which will be 
expended within the exposition grounds. 
Bridges, lagoons, roads, several buildings 
and a great deal of the planting and 
other construction work now in progress 
will be of a permanent nature. 
ter of the soil differs very materially from 
that commonly found. Owing to the un- 
derlying hardpan, drilling and blasting, fol- 
lowed by deep plowing and cultivating is 
frequently necessary before tree or shrub- 
bery planting can be done with any assur- 
ance of success. Among the permanent 
improvements made during the past year 
was the installation of the Hadden auto- 
matic sprinkler system for watering the 
lawns. Twelve thousand one hundred and 
be judged from the illustration. Superin- 
tendent J. G. Morley says the system is 
proving very satisfactory. The subject of 
irrigation is an important one. At pres- 
ent water is supplied from the city mains, 
but an independent pumping plant is being 
seriously considered. Ten thousand six 
hundred and twelve trees and 5,868 shrubs 
were planted during 1912. The former 
were principally acacia, eucalyptus, cypress 
and pines, in variety. 
A WELL PLANNED CEMETERY ENTRANCE 
The Forbes street entrance to Homewood 
Cemetery, Pittsburgh, Pa., is exceedingly 
well situated, both as to convenience and 
easy access, not only to the numerous sec- 
tions of the cemetery, but in that it is lo- 
cated at a point where the electric car 
service connecting with all parts of the 
city and suburbs may be had readily. 
The approach to the entrance, which is 
a Virginia granite structure, and semi- 
circular in design, as shown in the cut, is 
by way of Forbes street, which runs along 
one side of the cemetery, and the Wm. 
Pitt boulevard, which becomes tangent to 
Forbes street for about 200 feet at the 
entrance, thus affording a broad expanse of 
open driveway to patrons entering and 
leaving the cemetery. 
The superintendent’s house, which lies 
about 100 feet back from the Forbes street 
entrance, faces to the east, while the en- 
trance is to the south. The house is of 
English design, the first-floor plan consist- 
ing of kitchen, dining room, living room 
and sitting room, conveniently arranged, 
while on the second floor are five bed- 
rooms and two bathrooms. The exterior of 
the first floor is of Indiana limestone, while 
the sides above the first floor are of ce- 
ment paneling. The cost of this building 
was about $20,000. 
The composition of the entrance and 
house, with its surrounding flower and 
shrub beds, its trees, lawns and wide ave- 
nues of approach, its undulating back- 
ground, shows a freedom and common- 
sense endeavor to reap all that is most 
beautiful in nature. 
