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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
At 12 noon there is usually a long line 
waiting for the doors' to open. A police- 
man at the door allows fifty to enter. 
These are directed to their dressing rooms. 
As soon as clothes are removed all bathers 
must go under showers, soaping them- 
selves thoroughly with soft soap provided 
by the management. They are then sub- 
jected to an inspection, and if clean and 
free from skin disease are allowed to en- 
ter pool. At the end of thirty minutes, 
at a signal from the attendant, all bathers 
must leave pool, dress and immediately 
leave bath house. All must have vacated 
bath house before the next batch of fifty 
is allowed to enter. As soon as the last 
bather for the day has left, the pool is 
immediately emptied. This requires about 
an hour and a half. It is then thoroughly 
scrubbed with soap and soda and refilled. 
The filling is usually completed at 10 
a. m. the following day. 
In addition to the policeman at the door 
there is an attendant in the bath house and 
one at the swimming pool. 
Last year there was considerable trouble 
with soot and coal dust from nearby fac- 
tories, dirtying the water surface. A scum 
gutter was cut in the wall entirely around 
the pool at the level" of the water. The 
surface is now entirely free from dirt. 
A STRIKING 
The sheer stunning effect of such a mass 
of poinsettias as shown here is not to be 
measured by mere black and white type 
and reproduction. 
When the original of this group arose 
unexpectedly on a Florida horizon, a gasp 
of astonishment most nearly describes the 
situation. It was almost too much for 
Northern eyes, uneducated, as yet, in 
Southern horticultural possibilities. 
But contemplation only heightens the joy 
in this bit of planting, as well as reveals 
the fact that it stands for something more 
than an unusual and almost sensational 
color scheme, although that constitutes its 
chief feature and greatest charm. 
For the grand mass of green foliage 
forms a perfect setting for the lavish 
adornment of splendid scarlet rosettes 
which finish every branch and twig, and 
both are enhanced by the appropriate back- 
gronnd of neutral gray walls supplied by 
the cement house, which is pleasingly 
broken in line by the porch balustrade (of 
the same cement) on the left and the 
rounding bay on the right, as well as by 
the various window openings. 
In addition to this, the impressive size 
of the planting, some twenty-five feet in 
length and ten or twelve in height, its ir- 
regular depth and the excellent taste which 
has limited the plantation to the one spe- 
cies, are sources of pleasure to the con- 
feet at the end next to bath house. It is 
built of concrete, reinforced with wire 
mesh and steel rods at two-foot intervals. 
showers during the winter season from 2 
p. m. to 8 p. m., for boys and men only. 
The outdoor swimming pool is open from 
WAITING LINE AT CALHOUN BATH HOUSE. 
Its walls are ten inches thick, waterproofed 
on inside with five-ply felt and tar water- 
proofing. Over this is a three-inch cement 
wall of hydrolithic waterproof cement. 
The bath house is open for the use of 
June 1 to about the middle of September, 
from 12 noon to 6 p. m. On Mondays, 
Wednesdays and Fridays, for women and 
girls, and on Tuesdays, Thursdays and 
Saturdays, for men and boys. 
EFFECT IN POINSETTIAS 
noisseur, while to find the poinsettia so 
well grown is a revelation. 
As usually seen out of doors, this shrub 
is merely a series of long, immodestly 
naked and awkwardly straggling stems, 
topped by scattering heads of the brilliant 
bracts that advertise its insignificant blooms. 
Just lop-sided, unattractive and unhappy- 
looking plants, seemingly cast into an un- 
feeling world and left from earliest youth 
to pursue life untutored in its arts and 
graces. Here, on the contrary, are plants 
which have from infancy been pruned, 
trained and encouraged in the way they 
should go and consequently present almost 
a perfect picture of development. 
This altogether satisfying consummation 
is responsible for an enlarged decorative 
scheme. The line of baby plants seen on 
the left shows part of the beginning of a 
second and larger plantation of the same 
shrub coming on to increase the beautiful 
group to a bank of luscious color, which, 
with its charming setting, should become 
one of the sights of St. Petersburg. 
Frances Copley Seavey. 
POINSETTIAS IN FLORIDA; PHOTO BY MRS. SEAVEY. 
