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PARK AND CEyAETERY. 
Some Peculiar flonuments. 
A visit to the cemeteries of the various cities 
in which one may sojourn for a time while on a 
vacation trip, reveal many 
curios, if one may use the 
term, in memorial art. If 
photographed and grouped 
afterwards, they form a col- 
lection affording consider- 
able interest and inducing 
more or less meditation on 
the why and the wherefore 
of their existence. 
Mr. J. S. Clark, of 
Louisville, Ky , is one of the 
monumental dealers who 
carries a Kodak with him on 
his travels, and while journeying west last winter 
in search of renewed health, he was enabled to take 
a number of pictures; among them those presented 
herewith, for which 
we are indebted to 
him. 
The horse mon- 
ument is erected in 
the cemetery at 
Denver, Colo. The 
horse a favorite of 
its owner was mod- 
eled from life and is 
cut from marble, the pedestal being of gray granite. 
In the same cemetery is the Miner’s Cabin, a 
tomb about seven and a half feet square at base, 
cut from a solid 
piece of limestone. 
Its realistic effect is 
plainly suggested 
by the illustration. 
The palms stand- 
ing sentinel in the 
third illustration in- 
dicates its location 
as belonging to the 
Pacific slope, and makes it a unique picture. There 
is something very dignified rn the palm, notwith- 
standing its frequently dishevelled appearance, and 
it carries us back so easily by association with the 
centuries past and gone, that it stands as a con- 
necting link between the past and present; and 
even leads us forward too, for it bespeaks perma- 
nence and lifts itself up into the glare of the sun, 
unabashed and unyeilding. The palm in a land- 
scape is always attractive, always thought inspiring. 
This view was taken in a Los Angeles Cemetery, 
and is a characteristic scene of that semi-tropical 
locality. 
Notes. 
In the United States there are 419 different spe- 
cies of trees, and nineteen of them, when perfectly 
seasoned, will sink in water. 
There are said to be at least 400 different kinds 
of palm trees under cultivation at the vast botanic 
garden at Bintenzorg, Java- This is doubtless the 
most extensive collection of palms at any one gar- 
den. Three hundred species have been determined, 
some hundred more which show characteristic differ- 
ences, but are not named yet, besides other known 
varieties. 
An exchange says: One of the most wonderful 
examples of vegetable growth and fecundity is illus- 
trated by the Asiatic pemperion. A single seed 
planted on the grounds of the Berlin Botanical So- 
ciety propagated a vine which grew to be as large 
as a man’s body in nine weeks. It grew to a total 
length of nearly 900 feet and ripened over 800,000 
seeds. 
In Nice, France, there is a society called “The 
Friends of Trees. ’’ The forests and mountains be- 
ing almost completely devastated and denuded in 
the Maritime Alps by the ax of the peasant, a prize 
is given to land-owners who plant trees on vacant 
spots, and an annual Alpine fete destines a dona- 
tion of $100 to the society or individual who plants 
the largest number. Here is a suggestion. 
In the matter of using woody vines in landsca- 
ping, Mr. T.‘V. Munson, the well-known horticultur- 
ist of Denison, Texas, says it appears to him that 
there is great neglect of abundant, rich, native ma- 
terial, which, if judiciously employed, gives most 
agreeable effects, not obtainable by any other means. 
These are quick in growth and easy in management 
in proper place, and their use should be encouraged. 
Mr. Munson will write on this subject in these col- 
umns in a future issue. 
In The American Florist under the head of Bos- 
ton notes, it is stated that Supt. Doogue of public 
grounds has been experimenting with various com- 
pounds to find an exterminator for the army worm, 
and thinks he has now found the long sought article 
in hard wood ashes ahd slacked lime. He combines 
these in the proportion of two-thirds ashes to one- 
third lime, the ashes to contain not less than eight 
per cent, of potash, and sifts it evenly over the sur- 
face after the grass has been mowed close, and if 
possible just before a rain storm, in quantity about 
four tons to an acre. 
