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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
Acceptable Grouping of nixed Shrubs. 
The combination of shrubs in mixed groups or 
beds is a subject that all planters must needs study 
and be interested in, and the examples offered by 
such beds as are planned by Landscape Artists of 
standing can not fail to be helpful to Park and 
Cemetery men. 
It is both interesting and instructive to note the 
shrubbery plantations already made in the per- 
manent planting of Jackson Park, Chicago, after 
the plans of Messrs Olmstead, Olmstead & Elliot. 
For instance, there are scattered throughout that 
part of the Park that has been improved this season, 
among others, I2 beds or groups containing 900 
plants set three feet apart as follows: Spiraea 
Thunbergii, Hydrangea Paniculata grandiflora, 
Deutzia crenata, Lonicera orientalis, Weigelia ro- 
sea and Rhodotypos Kerriodes, 100 each; Rosa 
rugosa, Japan Quince, Philadelphus coronarius and 
Spiraea Reevsi, 50 each. These are all flowering 
shrubs, and the group will show bloom from earli- 
est spring until frost, the most floriferous period be- 
ing through May or June, or early part of July, ac- 
cording to the season. The arrangement of the 
plants is such that the early flowering Forsythias and 
scarlet Japan Quinces will make a lovely show in 
early spring; these will be followed by a long season 
of the white and rose colored flowers that predomi- 
nate in the collection, and that flower in close suc- 
cession through May, June and early July; and after 
these the Rugosa roses and the Japanese shrub, 
Rhodotypos Kerriodes, will probably supply some 
flowers, most years, until the showy panicles of 
Hydrangea Paniculata grandiflora open in August 
to furnish forth the groups for the remainder of 
the season. 
Then there are more than one hundred beds 
made up of 32000 plants set two feet apart as fol- 
lows: Shrubby cinquefoil, Rhus copallina, Sympho- 
ricarpus occidentalis, Myrica cerifera, Rhamnus 
catharticus, and Prickly Ash, each 20oo;Rosa lucida 
and R. nitida 3000 each; Spiraea salicifolia, S. tom- 
entosa, S. opulifolia, Berberis vulgaris. Viburnum 
acerifolium, looo each; Berberis Thunbergii 1800; 
Ribes cynobati 2500; Bitter Sweet, Ilex verticellata, 
Straphylia trifolia and Choke Berry, 500 each; Cor- 
nus Sanguinea 400: Rhus aromatica and Aralia 
spinosa, 100 each. 
This collection includes flowering shrubs, 
those bearing ornamental fruits (notably the Bay 
Berry, Indian currant, Choke Berry and Buck- 
thorn), those that give fine color effect in their fall 
foliage, and some that are conspicuous in winter by 
reason of their colored bark, notably Cornus san- 
guinea. 
A less complicated combination is made up of 
thirty odd beds containing 5000 plants set two feet 
apart, as follows: Choke Berry 1500, Bay Berry 
2000, Thunbergs Barberry 1000 and Hypericum 
prollficum 500. 
A still simpler grouping consists of 700 plants 
of Lonicera Halleana and 200 of Rosa Wichuraiana 
in nine beds of loo plants each viz: two of the Ja- 
panese creeping rose to every seven honeysuckles, all 
set three feet apart. 
Quite a different effect is obtained in four- 
teen plantations containing 2500 plants set 
three feet apart thus: Black Alder, Silky Cornel, 
High Bush Cranberry and common Elder 300 each; 
Rosa Multiflora, common Lilac, and Amoor river 
Privet 200 each; Althea 150; and Syringa (Mock 
Orange) 500. This combination gives several 
seasons of bloom and shows at all times harmonious 
foliage effects. 
There are some twenty-five plantations of large 
shrubs and small trees aggregating 3300 plants set 
five feet apart in the following proportions: Red 
Bud, Pennsylvania maple or Moose wood. Mountain 
maple. Arrow wood, and Hop tree 200 each; Sassa- 
fras, Cockspur Thorn, and European Mountain Ash 
100 each; Flowering Dogwood 150; Shad Bush 
300; Scarlet Thorn 50; Witch Hazel 500: and Stag 
Horn Sumack 1000. 'there would seem to be ma- 
terial in this collection to make the groups attractive 
the year aroujid. One has but to close ones eyes 
and imagine the Dogwoods, Red Buds, or Thorn 
trees in flower; the Mountain Ashes in fruit; the 
glory of the Sassafras trees and Sumachs i n the fall, or 
the Witch Hazels tossing their yellow curls in No- 
vember, to get some idea of the woodland wealth hid- 
den in the mere lists of names given here. It seems 
to me a glorious combination, whether ideal or not I 
am unable to say now but I expect to find out by 
watching those groups next season. 
A number of plantations contain both 
trees and shrubs, the trees being set twenty, 
and the shrubs three feet apart, about 10,000 
in all, divided, I think, in eight beds in the 
following proportions, trees: Betula papyracea, 
B. lenta and Quercus alba 25 each; Acer rubrum, 
Quercus rubra and coccinea 50 each; shrubs: Sweet 
Pepper Bush, Indian currant, and Viburnum dentata 
1000 each; Prickly Ash, 2000; Cornus stolonifera, 
Amoor river Privet and Carpinus Americanus 500 
each; Spiraea opulifolia and common Privet 1500 
each; silky Cornel 250. 
These are only a part of the combinations seen, 
nearly all of which promise well. The most 
doubtful features are some of the plants indigenous 
to the swamps of New Jersey. These may take 
kindly to the sandy soil, but, as all other conditions 
are unlike those of their habitat, the results may 
prove unsatisfactory. The season has, however, 
been most favorable for planting and June of ’97 
will no doubt show a marked improvement in the 
appearance of what will always be to many of us 
the World’s Fair ground of delightful memory. 
Fanny Copley Seavey. 
