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PARK AND CEA\ETERY. 
SOUTH PARK, QUINCY, ILL. 
about about 1548. The year 1567 saw the intro- 
duction of four time-honored favorites — the auricula 
from Switzerland, the pink from Italy, the gilly- 
flower and carnation from Flanders. Spenser, by 
the way, in the “Shephearde’s Calendar” (1579) 
classes the carnation, which he calls “coronation,” 
with the purple columbine and the gillyflower as 
lovers’s flowers. Now, the carnation is generally 
supposed to have deiived its name fram the carna- 
tion or flesh color ot the original species, but the 
word used by Spenser suggests that “carnation” is 
merely an abbreviation of “coronation,” in allusion 
to the appearance of the flower, and its specific 
name, betonica coronaria. — Chambers' Journal. 
South Park, Quincy, III. 
The accompanying plan and illustrations of 
South Park, Quincy, 111 ., will largely aid in an ap- 
preciative understanding of the following brief sug- 
gestions concerning its design and possibilities. As 
has before been stated in these columns the park 
has been laid out from the design of Mr. O. C. 
Simonds, Landscape Gardener, of Chicago. 
It comprises a tract of land of a little over fifty 
acres, situated, as its- name implies, in the south 
part of the city. Its leading features are the varied 
surface of the ground, the fine growth of large for- 
est trees, including oaks of various kinds, American 
elms, black walnuts and others, a spring of pure 
water, and two small streams which have worked 
their way through limestone rocks. From a bluff 
on the south side of .the park there is a fine view of 
a rocky glen and a glimpse of the Mississippi River. 
In making a design for the improvement of this 
park, the aim has been to preserve all the natural 
features which have for years made the land attrac- 
tive to the residents of Quincy; to make drives and 
walks so that these features can be more easily seen; 
A NOBLE TREE. 
