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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
varying in width from one hundred 
to three hundred feet and extending 
from Nineteenth avenue North near- 
ly to Forty-fifth Avenue North and 
thence easterly to Camden Place will 
permit the extension of Glenwood- 
Camden Parkway to Camden Park 
and will leave a gap of less than five 
miles in the “Grand Rounds,” or city 
circuit. This circuit drive will be 
about thirty miles in length when 
completed and will embrace an unusu- 
al variety of interesting park features. 
The plans that were made a year 
ago for a large bath house at Lake 
Calhoun have been modified some- 
what. The revised plans provide for 
a larger number of bathers than did 
the original plans, with a slight de- 
crease in the size of the building. Af- 
ter investigating the locker system in 
use at Diversey Beach, Chicago, the 
Improvement Committee recommend- 
ed that this system be adopted for 
the Calhoun bath house and the plans 
were changed accordingly. The plans 
as finally adopted provide for nearly 
15,000 bathers during a day. 
A bond authorization to the amount 
of $50,000 was asked of the Legisla- 
ture a year ago for play ground pur- 
poses. The full amount was allowed. 
The report is the usually beautifully 
printed, illustrated and complete ac- 
count of the year’s work. 
It contains every item of informa- 
tion that any one could desire to have 
about the park system, and is one 
of the most orderly, systematic and 
complete park reports issued in this 
country. Detailed tables of the dis- 
tribution and classification of all ex- 
penditures and plans and ilustrations 
of all new grounds are among the 
most interesting features. 
MINNEHAHA PARK, LOOKING TOWARD SOLDIER&’ HOME. 
NEW GREENHOUSE PLANT IN ROCHESTER PARKS 
The accompanying illustration of a 
night view of the new greenhouses of 
Highland Park, Rochester, N. Y., is 
an unusually interesting picture of an 
unusually interesting greenhouse 
plant, in an unusually interesting park. 
Rochester has well earned its name, 
of Flower City, and has become 
famous for its unique Highland Park 
and its exceptionally fine collection 
of flora in its park system. With 
the erdction of this house it now sets 
a pace in its greenhouse displays that 
is worthy of emulation. 
The houses shown in the night 
photo are but half of the range — but 
it is the half open to the public night 
and day. 
The central house is one continuous 
flower picture, displaying the choicest 
GROUND PLAN, HIGHLAND PARK 
GREENHOUSE'S, 
plants and blooms from the entire 
park greenhouses. These displays are 
much more than the usual banking up 
tier upon tier — they are real flower 
pictures in which careful consider- 
ation is given to the color combina- 
tions to secure a pleasing harmony. 
This is done under the careful direc- 
tion of John Dunbar, assistant super- 
intendent of parks. 
The right wing house contains a 
choice collection of cacti, which 
those who know say to be a specially 
fine collection. 
The other wing house is divided 
into two compartments, one for semi- 
