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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
watch kept over them 
to the end of noting 
ly removing any un- 
that shows a tend- 
strip its comrades, 
characterizes such 
spurious or robber 
make a great show- 
pense of the rest of 
that should be cut 
suit is free, even 
ing the character of 
men and making 
plantations of sym- 
developed trees that 
lire to look at. 
the 
close 
when young 
and 
ruthless- 
ruly 
branch 
ency 
to out- 
Mr. 
Gurney 
branches as 
growths that 
ing at the ex- 
the 
tree and 
out. 
The re- 
growth, show- 
e a c 
h speci- 
h a n 
d s o m e 
metr 
ical , well 
it is 
a pleas- 
CYPRESS. — Glyplostrobits pcndjtla. 
The illustrations shown from photographs of 
trees standing in the park include a Japanese Ging- 
ko, a Liquidamber and a Cypress. That of the Ging- 
ko shows the female form and admirably depicts 
its characteristic peculiarity of erratic growth. It 
is a tree that is well adapted to park planting, be- 
ing hardy, yet able to thrive in a warm climate, 
adapting itself to either damp or dry soil, and is 
free from disease and insect enemies. It is an ex- 
cellent choice for any position where a Lombardy 
Poplar would look well, and it may well replace 
that species, being a longer lived and much 
more attractive tree. The male Gingko is 
strictly fastigiate and strongly resembles in gen- 
eral outline a Lombardy Poplar, although wearing 
its odd foliage in a way that distinguishes it from 
that variety to any one familiar with both trees. 
The Liquidamber styracifliia, or Sweet Gum, 
a variety that is perfectly hardy at St. Louis, a 
very handsome tree at all times with its distinct 
foliage and symmetrical form, and really glo- 
rious when it takes on its fall garment of crimson, 
orange and gold. It is peculiarly free from insects 
and disease. 
The fine specimen of that tree so infrequently 
seen as to seem rare, glyptosiroluts pcndula, 
closely allied to the somewhat better known 
I'axcdiinn disticJiiim, or deciduous Cypress of the 
south. This is one of two specimens of especially 
regular form that fit well in the landscape where 
they are placed. They stand on either side of 
a formal approach to a sheet of water from ivhich 
rises a misty spray and across which can be seen 
artificial ruins built of stone taken from the old 
Lindell Hotel that burned some twenty or more 
years ago. The tall slender spires of plumy green 
accent the formality of the approach and add 
greatly to its dignity and beauty. In direct con- 
taast to their slender columns stand specimens of 
Weeping Mulberry. Looking at these two and 
many other varieties seen, one can but marvel at the 
varied forms taken by trees alone without no 
ticing shrubs, plants or flowers. They are of end'ess 
interest. One grows more and more to feel that 
the only way to keep up a perennial interest in life 
throughout our alloted space is to cultivate a love 
and interest in the only things in the world that are 
continually renewing their youth, or at least taking 
a fresh start each year after a season of hibernation , 
during which one easily fancies the big, sturdy 
trees, little dry bulbs, almost obliterated plants and 
wholly invisible roots to be quietly thinking things 
over and getting what the children call “a real good 
ready” before making a fresh start in life. It docs 
make one somewhat envious at times to see them start 
off anew with the old record wiped out, while we — 
but in the main it is about the best interest, study, 
work and pleasure the world has to offer up to date. 
Fanny Copley Scavey. 
Amateurs and others frequently try their hand, 
at producing blue flowers from varieties that do not 
include that color in their nature. In relation to 
that the St. Louis Republic makes the following re- 
marks, which may serve as a reminder: A know- 
ledge of one simple law in nature may save the 
flower-grower days and weeks of hard and unavail- 
ing labor in attempting to produce that famous 
chimera of the botanists — the blue rose. The law 
is simply this: The three colors, red, blue and yel- 
low, never all appear in the same species of flowers; 
any two may exist, but never the third. Thus we 
have red and yellow roses, but no blue; red and 
blue verbenas, but no yellow; yellow and blue in 
the various members of the violet family, but no 
red. Other examples of this rigid law could be 
cited, but the above are sufficient. The botanist 
or floriculturist who really understands his busi- 
ness never attempts to produce a blue rose or a red 
violet. 
