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PARK AND CE/APTERY. 
Terrace Steps With Vases, Lincoln Park, Chicago. 
The green terrace in front of the Palm House at 
Lincoln park, adds to its dignity and to its beauty, 
and the handsome stone stairs and balustrades that 
give access to it at the front as well as at the east 
and west sides, make fitting approaches in keep- 
ing with the formal surroundings. 
The main terrace rises four feet and six inches 
above the drive, the first rise being two feet, di- 
viding the stairs into two unequal parts and mak- 
ing a much more effective approach than a single 
flight. The principal stairway, which rises directly 
in front of the main entrance to the Palm House 
from the gay flower garden that stretches away 
south from the terrace, is much broader than those 
at the sides, one of which is shown in our engrav- 
ing, but the plan is nearly the same, differing only 
in minor details. The narrower flight was pho- 
tographed because better adapted to show on a 
small scale the arrangement of steps, balustrades, 
vases and plants. 
The balustrades are of boulders with a coping 
of Bedford stone on which large boulders are plac- 
ed to prevent people from sitting there. 
The shrubs growing on the terrace, that show 
so effectively against the balustrade, are Berberis 
Thunbergii, and it does well despite its exposed po- 
sition to the north of the stone work. 
The Agave used in square tubs is A. Ameri- 
cana variegata that is always handsome and appro- 
priate in connection with architecture. 
The terra cotta vases are twenty-six inches high, 
the inside dimensions being twenty-four by twenty- 
gix inches. They are each year filled with light 
loam enriched with bone meal, and about May 27, 
are planted with well rooted pot plants such as sin- 
gle and double Geraniums, Petunia hybrida, Cuphea, 
the yellow Daisy Queen of Belgium and Calceola- 
ria annua, a pretty and odd little bright yellow an- 
nual that is always in bloom. Lobelia Paxtoniana 
and Verbenas are also used, together with such trail- 
ing plants as Pilogyne suavis, Maurandia Barclay- 
ana, Vincas both green and variegated, Lophosper- 
mum scandens, and Tropoeleum var. Bismarck. 
This is a good list to note 
carefully for use in vases that 
are exposed to full sunshine, 
for they all do well and these 
vases invariably have an over- 
flowing luxuriance of vines and 
flowers that suggests fountains 
of verdure. 
The bone meal used in the 
soil doubtless has a strong 
bearing on their thriftiness as 
it furnishes food that is drawn 
upon by the plants throughout 
the season. In this connec- 
tion I recall seeing some re- 
markably pretty hanging bask- 
ets at Egandale, the charming 
summer home of Mr. W. C. 
Egan at Highland Park, 111 . 
They were filled with a wonder- 
fully fine growth of Maurandia 
vines. Mr. Egan, who is an 
enthusiastic and successful amateur gardener, attrib- 
uted their free growth to a liberal portion of horn 
shavings and bone meal in the soil. The horn 
shavings for the immediate consumption of the plants 
on being set in the basket, and the meal to be taken 
as a regular diet during the entire summer. 
The beautiful turf that clothes the park terraces 
is from blue grass sod that was laid three years ago. 
Fanny Copley Seavey. 
Receiving Vault, Hount Elliott Cemetery, Detroit, Mich. 
The new receiving vault of Mount Elliott Ceme- 
tery, Detroit, Mich., is built of Barre granite, and 
forms a substantial and imposing pile, covering an 
area of about 30 by 26 feet, 16 feet high. The de- 
sign, which is by Mr. F. A. Grace, architect, is 
well displayed on the next page. With the excep- 
tion of the crypts, of a capacity for 60 bodies, which 
are constructed of limestone and Italian marble, and 
the interior finish of marble and encaustic tiling, 
the whole structure is of granite, rock-face and 
fine hammered work as can be seen by the illustra- 
tration. The granite roof is constructed of some 
heavy stones. The wing caps are 1 8 feet 5 inches 
TERRACE STEPS, LINCOLN PARK, CHICAGO. 
