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or fence, bedding generally arranges itself better 
than elsewhere.” 
Mr. Parsons shows where in the regular flower 
garden, bedding can be done effectively without in- 
terfering with the lawn, and how excellent effects 
may be produced in many directions, and further: 
“the landscape gardening of bedding plants does not 
depend on the haphazard so-called good taste by 
some one who simply knows how to grow plants. It 
is, on the other hand, distinctly artistic work, based 
on principles of the art that underlies every form of 
landscape gardening. The composition of a land- 
scape gardening picture, just as a composition of a 
painting, must have a definite scheme that has not 
only plenty of design but a nicely adjusted relation 
of form and color. There must be careful study 
given to the treatment of foreground, middle dis- 
tance, and background, and the sky lines and level 
effects of water and greensward must be duly con- 
sidered. Not only must the relations of bedding 
plants and shrubs be considered, but the com- 
position of the individual bed of plants must be 
carefully worked out. You must have a system and 
be governed by certain general rules, but there 
must be no mannerism or adherence to any hard- 
and-fast line of treatment. Every new problem 
must be studied with regard to its own inherent 
peculiarity.” 
Salisbury Tower, Institute Park, Worcester, Mass. 
The Park System of a city should be one of its 
chief attractions; and its adornments are a sure in- 
dication of the intelligence of its citizens. 
Visitors can easily gauge the standard of art in 
a city, by its statues and monu- 
ments, or the embellishments of 
its parks, and there can be no 
question as to the advantages to 
be gained by the attractiveness, of 
parks, inducing as it does, out- 
door exercises among pleasant 
surroundings, and with elevating 
influences. 
The City of Worcester, Mass., 
is well provided with Park lands, 
comprising upwards of 360 acres 
in various sections of the city, all 
of which are undergoing im- 
provement from year to year. 
Institute Park, situated in the 
northwest part of the city, con- 
tains some eighteen acres, and is 
a gift to the city from Hon. Ste- 
phen Salisbury, one of its most 
liberal and public citizens. At 
his own expense he has graded 
and beautified it, providing among other things 
a band-stand, boat-house and boats, and has 
constructed a tower which in appearance is al- 
most an exact reproduction of the Old Stone 
Mill at Newport, R. I. of historic fame. The ac- 
companying view of the tower was taken by Mr. 
Albert H. Chaffee, of Worcester. It is 30 feet high 
and 25 feet in diameter, and has a circular stairway 
in the center, leading to the top, from which beau- 
tiful views can be had in every direction. This 
Park takes its name from its proximity to the Poly- 
technic Institute, one of the higher educational in- 
stitutions of Worcester, and to which also, Mr. 
Salisbury has been extremely liberal. 
Elm Park, which contains about 88 acres, has 
had considerable attention bestowed upon it, by 
creating artificial lakes and landscape effects with 
plants and shrubs, altogether a very lovely breath- 
ing spot. 
The obsequies of Victor Hugo, which accord- 
to foreign reports, by his own wish were to last 
ten years are concluded. Since 1885 his coffin has 
lain on a black draped bier, in the crypt of the 
Pantheon, Paris, with the funeral wreaths piled a- 
bout it. This bier stood by the empty tombs of 
Voltaire and Rousseau, and near the “echo” stone. 
Last month the coffin was placed in a sarcophagus 
and deposited in the niche reserved for it, a stone 
wall only separating it from that of Carnot. The 
great writer must have had a higher motive in 
view, than a first glance at this strange de- 
sire would suggest. Surely it was not vanity that- 
prompted such a request. 
