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REFECTORY RUILDING, FRANKLIN PARK, BOSTON. 
tooncd with roses. The sort used was the tea, 
Gloire de Dijon. A plant or two were set to each 
side of the lot and then trained hedge shape. I 
saw these bushes in flower, and a lovelier and more 
appropriate display I never saw. A thick, low 
bushy edging is often made of the Clematis mon- 
tana, a sort bearing good-sized white flowers and 
having the free growth of Vitalba and Virginiana. 
If hardy here, it will be a valuable addition to our 
vines. I was particularly struck with the beauty of 
the weeping ash and weeping elm as seen in this and 
other cemeteries in England. They are all grafted 
'on tall stems, 10 feet or more high, and form de- 
lightful arbors. Our nurserymen graft them too 
low. The outskirt of this Cemetery has been 
heavily planted with all sorts of shrubs and trees of 
an evergreen character. A border 20 feet wide 
contains pines, English laurels, hollies, Euonymus, 
Aucubas, Mountain ash and like trees, securing 
seclusion thereby. Graves and lots are deco- 
rated much as they are with us. I witnessed an in- 
terment in a neighboring Cemetery during my stay 
in England in which each mourner carried some floral 
emblem which was placed on the grave of the young 
girl they buried. There was not less than a dozen 
crosses, wreaths and like designs, and these had 
been largely made up of flowers gathered in the 
fields. 
Joseph Meehan. 
Refectory Building, Franklin Park, Boston. 
The Refectory Building in cpurse of construction 
in Franklin Park, Boston, an illustration of which 
is given above, is from plans by Messrs. Hartwell 
& Richardson, architects. The character of the 
building is Italian and it covers an area of 121 It. 
by 69 ft. The materials are buff brick and terra 
cotta, and the terrace is laid up in field stone, to be 
covered perhaps by climbing plants. The plan of 
the structure is very simple. On the ground 
floor is a large restaurant and a private dining-room. 
Above is the roof garden, which forms in effect a 
second story, having pavilions twenty-one feet 
square at each corner, connected by covered galler- 
ies on three sides, the remainder of the space be- 
ing open to the sky. On a level with the ground 
floor is the pergola, which extends across the west 
end and along the southerly side, and which varies 
in width from twenty-eight to fifty feet. This is 
paved with brick, and has a trellised roof supported 
by open groups of wooden columns. In the centre 
of each group provision has been made for vines, 
which will twine around the columns and spread 
over the latticed roof above. The refectory will be 
ready for use next summer. 
The structure has been criticised as being more 
suited to warmer climates than the region of Bos- 
ton. 
Horticultural Education — Practice and Theory.* 
Horticulture is fast gaining a place in the 
courses of instruction in most of our colleges. A 
few years ago this science was little studied, but in 
our agricultural colleges one or more courses in 
horticulture are now taken up. We can hardly ex- 
pect to send out men ready to take a position 
from the schools, but we can give them much know- 
ledge in a short period of time, which will help 
make their work easier and clearer. In teaching, 
the knowledge given is the result of past experience 
of other gardeners. We use their methods and en- 
deavor to improve upon them. Every student 
should fully understand the necessity of improving 
upon the already existing method of growing, if 
possible. 
In all agricultural colleges and experimental 
stations, I learn that it is their aim to combine the- 
ory with practice, lectures being followed by practi- 
cal work. At the St. Louis Botanical Gardens, un- 
der the directorship of Prof. Trelease, the work is 
undertaken in such a manner as to turn out good 
practical men. The course is similar to that of 
which I shall speak of later under the future horti- 
cultural school. Four years are required before 
*Extracts from a paper read at the Eleventh Annual Meeting of the 
Society of American Florists, Pittsburgh, Pa. By Chas. Jackson Daw- 
son, Boston. 
