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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
Nokomis, where beaches will be im- 
proved. 
The Southern Pacific Railroad com- 
pany has had plans prepared for the 
beautifying of West Stayton, Ore., 
depot grounds. A neat little park has 
been designed immediately back of 
the depot, to be installed by the Com- 
mercial club, and 26 varieties of 
shrubs, four varieties of trees, six va- 
rieties of perennials together with 
roses and flower vases, will greatly 
enhance the beauty of this already 
pretty little village. 
Mr. J. A. Butterfield, landscape gar- 
dener for the Missouri Pacific R. R., 
has begun work of beautifying the 
grounds around the station at Car- 
thage, Mo. Mr. Butterfield’s headquar- 
ters is in St. Louis. 
Extensive park improvements have 
been planned for Salt Lake City, 
Utah, the coming season. Several new 
playgrounds in various sections of the 
city are proposed. One of the new 
playgrounds will be built in City 
creek canyon by P. J. Moran at a cost 
of about $6,000. Drawings for two 
new rustic bridges at Liberty park 
have been made by the superintendent 
of parks and approved by the commis- 
sioner. Plans for a rustic shelter and 
refreshment stand to take the place 
of old structures torn down have also 
been approved. 
New Parks 
Steelton, Pa., is to have a new park 
in the near future if plans of the 
borough council and the Municipal 
League are successful. Efforts are 
now being made to convert the tract 
of land at the extreme east of the 
borough, donated by the Kelker es- 
tate two years ago, into a modern 
municipal park. 
The details attending the purchase 
of Glenn park in Crawford county by 
the state of Wisconsin are about com- 
pleted. The tract, which may be 
named Crawford Park, contains 1,700 
acres of land lying at the junction of 
the Mississippi and Wisconsin rivers, 
opposite Prairie du Chien. 
Amesbury, Mass., is pushing the 
project of taking over the Moody 
farm, containing 26 acres, for a pub- 
lic park, under an act recently passed 
by the legislature. 
Steps have been taken by the au- 
thorities of Anahein, Calif., towards 
the establishment of a public park on 
the old abandoned power-house 
grounds on Cypress street. 
The establishment of a public park 
as a memorial for Arent Van Curler is 
being agitated as one of the features 
of a celebration which may be held in 
Schenectady, N. Y., this year in com- 
memoration of the 250th anniversary 
of the founding of the city. 
The tract of about thirty acres, in- 
cluding Lake Minne-eho has recently 
been accepted by the city of Aber- 
deen, S. Dak., from the Aberdeen 
Realty company. 
A new public park to extend from 
the Brooklyn Bridge to Court Square, 
is planned by Edward H. Bennett, the 
architect engaged by the Committee 
on City Planning, of New York City. 
The widening of Washington street, 
from the Bridge to Borough Hall 
Square, presents the principal difficul- 
ty to be overcome. 
The ladies of the Woman’s Im- 
provement Club, of Selma, Calif., have 
secured the Wagner property for a' 
new park for this place. 
The Woman’s Club, of DeKalb, 
Ills., has decided to purchase the tract 
of land to the northwest of the city, 
known as Annie’s Woods, with the 
ultimate purpose of providing for the 
people of DeKalb a public park. 
The town of Zearing, la., which has 
been making rapid improvements 
ground just north of the business 
street in the east portion of the in- 
lately, has purchased a tract of 
ground just north of the business 
street. 
The city commissioners of Chatta- 
nooga, Tenn., have appropriated $20,- 
000 to pay for Olympia park and au- 
thorized the mayor to execute notes 
for the balance of $60,000 due. The 
name of the park was changed to 
Warner in honor of Maj. J. H. War- 
ner, who was most active in the pur- 
chase of this park. 
One of the best small parks in 
Chicago is being planned for the vi- 
cinity bound by West Eighteenth, 
West Nineteenth, South Lincoln and 
South Wood Streets. A resolution 
has been passed by the West Park 
Commission to buy the land. 
The supervisors of Siskiyou Coun- 
ty, Calif., passed resolutions urging 
the U. S. government to secure Mt. 
Shasta and its neighborhood for a 
National park. 
From Park Reports 
The report of the Park Commis- 
sion of Atlanta, Ga., for the year 1911 
has recently come to hand. The gen- 
eral Council of the city appropriated 
$66,492.70 for the operation and im- 
provement of the Parks and Play- 
grounds during 1911, and the receipts 
from the parks amounted to $11,291.43 
so that the cost to the city was only 
$55,200.80. The value of the park 
property is put at $1,019,800, and 
there are in all 15 large and small 
parks in the city. An interesting 
chapter is that on the Care of the 
City’s Trees, and much experience has 
been gathered from the investiga- 
tions and experiences. Sycamores, 
most of the maples and the poplars 
have been found to be unsuited for 
street, lawn, or park in the Atlanta 
section, and the trees recommended 
are: Willow Oak, Water Oak, Pen 
Oak, Red Oak, Red Elm, English 
Elm, Norway Maple, Sugar Maple, 
Sweet Gum, Ginkgo, or Maiden Hair, 
Silver Linden, and American Linden. 
A surprising amount of work was 
done on the trees for the amount re- 
ceived for it, $2,689.65, and the city 
should support this part of a city’s 
maintenance far more liberally in- 
deed. 
Personal 
George A. Parker, superintendent of 
parks, Hartford, Conn., discussed "The 
Larger Uses of Public Parks before 
the Recreation Institute of the New 
England State at Brookline, Mass., 
in February. 
Dr. George T. Moore, Professor 
of Applied Botany at Washington 
University, St. Louis, Mo., and a 
man of national reputation in that 
line of work, has been elected di- 
rector of the Missouri Botanical 
Garden, so well known as Shaw’s 
Garden, of St. Louis, Mo., to suc- 
ceed Dr. William Trelease, whose 
resignation we reported in our last 
issue. Dr. Moore will assume his 
duties on May 1. He is a graduate 
of Wabash College, and an A. B., 
Harvard University, and has filled 
many important offices in connec- 
tion with botanical science and prac- 
tice. 
J. J. Levison, Forester in charge 
of the trees in the parks and streets 
of Brooklyn, has prepared a number 
of lectures on trees, their care, con- 
trol, etc., which he delivers before 
civic improvement societies, univer- 
sities, colleges, nature clubs, etc. 
The lectures are illustrated by col- 
ored lantern slides from original 
photographs. Mr. Levison is a 
graduate of the Yale University 
Forestry Department, and was for- 
merly associated with U. S. Forest 
Service under Mr. Gifford Pinchot. 
Wm. J. Zartmann is president, and 
Geo. J. Pierson, secretary-treasurer, 
of the Fairfield Landscape and 
Nurseries Co., Terminal Building, 
41st st. and Park ave., New York, 
N. Y. They will give attention to 
landscape engineering and construc- 
tion, road building and planting. 
