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Smoke affects nut trees very much while 
the mulberry seems to bear it without much 
injury. 
The ornamental evergreens are very sen- 
sitive to a smoky atmosphere on account 
of being continuously exposed to the im- 
pressive effects of gases, while deciduous 
trees and shrubs renew their foliage, which 
seems to be open to attack more than any 
other part of the plant. The following 
varieties, given the proper soil and climatic 
conditions may be successfully planted with 
good results in locations where smoke pre- 
vails, and are given in the order of their 
resistance to smoke: Thuya, Juniperus 
virginica, Pinus austrica, Pinus silvestris, 
Pinus montana, Abies concolor, Tsuga 
canadensis, Picea and Retinospora. 
All shrubs cannot be planted with equal 
success in our station grounds and I have 
found that the following are the most 
likely to succeed where a smoky atmo- 
The State Forestry Board of Wisconsin 
has already started its work of improving 
the state parks. The last legislature 
passed a law placing the duties of im- 
proving the parks owned by the state 
upon the park board. State Forester E. 
M. Griffith, of Madison, recently returned 
from a visit to the parks and in three of 
the parks' he has already placed a crew of 
men to blaze trails and improve the roads. 
The last legislature appropriated $18,000, 
available March 1, 1914, for the improve- 
ment of Peninsular Park in Door county. 
This park is composed of 3.700 acres and 
a forest ranger with a crew of five men 
have been placed at work making im- 
provements. Practically the same work 
is being done at the state park at Devil’s 
Lake. This park is composed of 1,040 
acres of land and the legislature has made 
an appropriation of $12,000 for improve- 
ments. A crew of five men is now at 
work in this park. Senator Glenn is look- 
ing after the Glenn Park at the junction 
of the Mississippi and Wisconsin rivers 
until a forest ranger and a crew can be 
put to work. This park is composed of 
2,000 acres and an appropriation of $10,000 
has been made for improvements. Octo- 
ber 1, a ranger and crew was put at work 
in the interstate park at the dells of the 
St. Croix. This park includes 700 acres 
of which 550 acres are on the Wisconsin 
side of the river. The appropriation for 
this park was only $2,000, because previ- 
ous legislatures had made appropriations 
for improvements. No appropriation was 
made for improvements of the Brule 
river park in Douglas county, but the work 
can be carried on under the forestry re- 
serve law. This park occupies 6,000 acres 
sphere prevails : Ligustrum, with its vari- 
ous species, Rhamnus, Viburnum, Sympho- 
ricarpus, Syringa vulgaris, Sambucus, For- 
sythia, Weigela, Spirea, Crataegus, Cornus, 
Althea, Euonymus, Americana, Exocharda, 
Lonicera, R i b e s , Flydrangea, Berberis 
Thunbergii, Cercis Canadensis, Tamarix, 
Aralia, Kerria and Hypericum. 
Plants may be injured by smoke in four 
ways : 
1. By the presence of injurious chemical 
elements in the smoke which injure the 
cell structure. 
2. By the free acid in the smoke coming 
into contact with the ground, thereby de- 
stroying the beneficial bacteria. 
3. By the tarry matter in the smoke 
coating the leaves and choking the pores 
thereby smothering the plant. 
4. By the smoke cloud limiting the avail- 
able sunlight. 
of which 4,500 acres were given to the 
state by F. E. Weyerhaeuser, of St. Paul. 
The City Plan of Lincoln, Neb., being 
prepared by the American Park Builders, 
of Chicago, contemplates the moving of 
the capital to a new position north of the 
city, where the new structure will be 
flanked by state, county and city govern- 
mental buildings. A new layout for a 
union station is provided which will cause 
considerable rearrangement of railroads 
leading into and out of the city. It is 
planned to eliminate one road which now 
leads through a densely populated section. 
The plan also contemplates the rearrange- 
ment of the University of Nebraska, moving 
of which has been a live topic in the Ne- 
braska Legislature for a number of years. 
The plan contemplates a carefully worked 
out park system, together with a number 
of playgrounds and a municipal cemetery. 
A comprehensive system of streets has 
been designed which will take care of 
population several times that of present 
sjze. 
At present the East St. Louis, 111., Park 
Board owns 1,300 acres of land, divided 
among ten parks, the sizes of which range 
from ll/100ths of an acre to 1,125 acres. 
Lake Park is the big park which will need 
years of work to make it realize the Park 
Board’s plans. It contains what was called 
“Pittsburg Lake.” Thousands of dollars 
have been spent in a vain effort to make 
it dry, tillable ground. The Park Board 
intends that it shall remain a lake, but 
that it shall be so managed that it will be 
a pleasure to the community. The mem- 
bers of the Park Board — Edmund Goedde, 
chairman: W. C. Thrasher, Dr. H. C. Fair- 
brother, John H. Thompson and M. A. 
Bright — have directed their superintendent, 
Emmett P. Griffin, to give the best atten- 
tion possible to the “near home” parks. 
Park concerts and public playgrounds have 
been two of the new features of this year’s 
park work. The playgrounds were held in 
Emerson Park, acreage 3 67/100, all vaca- 
tion, under the direction of Miss Plelen 
Bernard. 
A system of boulevards and parks ex- 
tending from Rock Island, 111., through to 
Silvis was one of the proposals given con- 
sideration at a meeting of the Greater Mo- 
line Committee, and a committee was ap- 
pointed to investigate the possibilities of a 
park system for Moline Township, under 
a board, as provided by the state law. The 
suggestion was made by Secretary Arthur 
Brown, who is a member of the committee. 
Improvements and Extensions. 
Plans for a new twenty-acre playground, 
to be built by the Fernwood Park Commis- 
sioners, prepared by Myron H. West, of 
the American Park Builders, have been re- 
cently accepted, and . preparation is being 
made to begin the work of building the 
park at an early date. The park is to be 
thoroughly equipped for playground pur- 
poses, the field house and swimming pool 
design calling for structures costing ap- 
proximately $50,000. The cost of the en- 
tire improvement is figured to be about 
$130,000. Fernwood is a park district of 
Chicago, in the neighborhood of 103rd and 
Wallace streets. 
Under the direction of Superintendent 
David A. Seymour, of the Park Depart- 
ment of Buffalo, N. Y., some preliminary 
work is being done on the city’s newly ac- 
quired small parks, and the hope of the 
Park Board is that some of the new 
“breathing spots” will be additions to the 
park system in reality by next summer. 
Willert Park will be ready, it is confidently 
expected. This park is being leveled off 
and trees are being planted by City For- 
ester Filer. Little more than very pre- 
liminary work has been done on the other 
small parks, but some of them should be- 
gin to assume parklike aopearance bv next 
year. Among them are Schiller Park, out 
near Genesee street and Scaiaquada Creek: 
Polonia Park, in Curtiss street, the addi- 
tion to Riverside Park in Black Rock, and 
the Lanigan Park addition. The last 
named park is about ready for park hon- 
ors, however, with the completion of a 
fence which the department is erecting 
around it at the present time. Lanigan 
Park is in Perry street. 
Park Commissioner Dwight F. Davis, of 
St. Louis, has asked the Board of Public 
Improvements for $2,000,000 to build up 
park propertv and $500,000 for the zoo. 
The commissioner says that the narks have 
run down and that the 52,000 000 will be 
necessary to put the system into prooer 
condition. 
Desiring to convert the site now occu- 
pied by the Pennsylvania Hospital for the 
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