PARK AND CEMETERY. 
the last 30 or 35 
years. P. graveo- 
lens, P. quercifo- 
lium, and several 
others have agre- 
eably scented foil- 
age, and a variety 
of some one of 
these with varie- 
gated foliage 
known in gardens 
as Lady Plymouth 
&c., is one of the 
handsomest edg- 
IMPATIENS HAWKERI. jj^g plailtS We 
have when uniform and well grown. But few man- 
age a stock of it — the plants require keeping cool 
and dry overwinter, starting in 
time, and propagating in spring. 
Several of the tuberous rooted 
kinds endure underground at 
the South, while in California 
most all are hardy. 
Tropccoleum, “Indian cress,’’ 
is another genus whose mud- 
dling must I suppose be saddled 
on some “language.” There 
are 40 species, natives of Mexi- 
co, Central and South America. 
Limnantlies in 3 species are 
Californian annuals, with fra- 
grant flowers. 
Oxalis has 205 species scat- 
tered over the world, a few are 
pretty garden plants, but rarely 
seen in much use. 
■hnpatiens has 225 species in 
Asia, Africa, Plurope and South 
America. It is a very handsome 
genus, abundant on the tropical Asiatic mount- 
ains where they sometimes cover the surface of a 
bog, or the banks of a stream with inexpressible 
beauty. The beautiful little I. Jerdoniae is epiphy- 
tic and should be grown like an orchid. I. sultani 
is just now quite a popular garden and window 
plant. 
Hydrocera natans is a handsome monotypic 
aquatic plant of this affinity, with much variety of 
color; it ought to do well with us during summer. 
It is a native of India and Malaysia, commonly cal- 
led the “water balsam.” 
Riita, “rue,” “herb o’ grace o’ Sundays,” as 
Shakespeare puts it, sometimes becomes half wild 
from Central New Jersey southwards. It is not in 
much repute as a garden flower, it smells disagreea- 
KANSAS CITY, MO. 
effect of a natural rocky spring. While the pur- 
pose of the improvement is here a definite one, the 
picture very well illustrates what a little time it 
takes to change the entire aspect of a landscape un- 
der intelligent direction. The moral applied to our 
smaller cemeteries and neglected spots in our vil- 
lages, should be a salutary one. A little concerted 
action, seasoned with individual enthusiasm would 
effect great changes in the neglected spots of our 
smaller places, and in many cases make even more 
marked transformations than the illustration given. 
We are indebted to Mr. Sid J. Hare, the sup- 
erintendent of the Cemetery, under whose manage- 
ment the work was carried out, for the photographs 
from which illustration is taken, and notes of the 
changed scene, which is a good practical example. 
bly, but has pretty glaucous foliage, and is retained 
in some gardens as a simple medicine. There are 
50 species from Mediterranean countries and from 
Central to Eastern Asia. 
A Transformation Scene. 
The accompanying illustration gives an idea of 
the change a short time will produce in a landscape 
under active measures of improvement. The view 
is taken in Forest Hill Cemetery, Kansas City, Mo., 
and the small cut in the bottom left hand corner is 
part of the same picture taken forty-five days before. 
The work was carried out the past spring. The 
lake is of artificial construction and is supplied 
from a spring'some two hundred and fifty feet away, 
whence the water is piped for the purpose ; it is 
also made to flow over a rocky ledge to create the 
NVMPH/EA LAKE, AS SEEN FROM THE LODGE AT FOREST HILL CEMETERY, 
