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Extracts. 
Swamp land or steep side hills 
may be so developed and beauti- 
fied in ways that will suggest' 
themselves to the true landscape 
gardener, as often to transform 
unsightly localities into the most 
attractive little parks or public 
grounds, and thus turn into act- 
ual profit what would otherwise 
be waste land. 
Judicious planting in such pla- 
ces has perhaps as much to do 
with the beauty of the grounds as 
anything else, and in this we can- 
not do better than to study nat- 
ure. Trees and shrubs should be 
planted in masses of thick green 
to give the effect of impenetrable 
woods as one looks at it, and in 
such places and shapes as to cut 
off views here and open others 
there, but not with any apparent 
effort in that direction. By plant- 
ing trees on the top of a slope and 
thick shrubbery meeting it from 
below, we increase the size of the 
hill in appearance, as there will 
be a continuous line of green 
from the grassy slope to the very 
top of the trees, and thus what 
may be a very insignificant rise 
in the ground is transformed into 
quite a hill when viewed from a 
distance. 
When we come to planting, we 
can frequently find native shrubs 
and trees in the woods that can 
be procured for the taking, which 
by judicious handling in the trans- 
planting, will give just as good 
effects in masses as more expen- 
sive stock from nurseries, and 
which we may be sure will stand 
the climate. 
And among the shrubbery we 
may plant hardy flowers, also, to 
add a bit of bright color to the 
sombre green. What strikes the 
eye as more beautiful as we drive 
along a country road than the wild 
flowers, golden rod, wild asters, 
daisies and hundreds of others 
peeping through the leaves of a 
dense mass of low shrubs, or 
growing in an irregular border of 
bright color on the outside. Sure- 
ly this is prettier in its place, than 
a stiff carpet bed, and requires less 
care and is much less costly. 
R. D. Cleveland. 
Publishers’ Department. 
Notice TO Subscribers. If this not- 
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cates that your subscription to Park and 
Cemetery has expired and a renewal of 
same is solicited. 
Park Commissioners and Cemetery 
trustees are requested to send us copies of 
their reports . 
Photographs and descriptive sketches of 
interesting features in parks and cemeter- 
ies are solicited from our readers. 
Park and Cemetery wants the names 
of every park and cemetery official or em- 
ployee who would be likely to be interest- 
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ers who have sent in such lists of names, 
we return our thanks. There are many 
more that we should hear from. 
Subscribers are again reminded that we 
want brief notes on any feature of park or 
cemetery work that will be of general in- 
terest. Park and Cemetery is the only 
publication of its class and earnestly so- 
licits the co-operation of subscribers in 
making it a help to all identified with 
such work. 
Received. 
Received from Mr. C. D. Phipps, 
Supt. of Cemetery of Franklin, Pa., and 
one of the committee, the notice in “ye 
olde time” style of the celebration of the 
one hundredth anniversary of the found- 
ing of the city of Franklin, which occurr- 
ed 1795. The document bears an impress 
of the city seal. 
From Geo. W. Creesy, superintendent 
of Harmony Grove Cemetery, Salem, 
Mass , photographs of Lily Pond, Cactus 
bed, and Cross and Crown bed; interest- 
ing subjects of this cemetery. 
Letters and instructions of O. C. Si- 
monds, landscape architect, to the Quincy 
Park and Boulevard Association, Quincy, 
Illinois. 
Reports of president and Superintendent 
to the corporators of the Allegheny Cem- 
TESTIMONIALS. 
Editor Park and Cejnetery. 
Enclosed find subscription to Park and 
Cemetery. I hope to be able to induce 
our cemetery committee to become sub- 
scribers. We are now laying off a new 
addition to our cemetery and I think 
enough good, modern, ideas could have 
been obtained from your paper to have 
more than repaid the outlay. 
J. B. Russell, Macomb, 111 . 
Editor Park and Cemetery . 
Please find enclosed my subscription to 
Park and Cemetery for 1896. I sincerely 
hope that it will receive sufficient encou- 
ragement to become a fortnightly issue. 
Its pages are so full of valuable hints to 
any one interested, and especially to me, 
a young man in the profession. I have 
received imformation from its pages that 
has saved my company many dollars. — 
one especially in connection with digging 
graves, by the use of trench and salt, 
which was a grand success as we have 
very severe frost. Again hoping to see a 
semi-monthly issue. 
Joshua P. Clayton, Supt. 
St. John, N. B. Rural Cemetery. 
Editor Park and Cemetery : — 
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AND Cemetery. 1 like the widening of 
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my subscription to Park and Cemetery 
for another year. I find your publication 
of great use to me as teaching me how to 
control a cemetery, and its multifarious 
concerns aright. J. R. Ruel, President 
Rural Cemetery, St. John, N. B. 
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Park and Cemetery for this year. We 
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Hill Cemetery Association, Bradford, Pa. 
etery, Allegheny, Pa. 
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