PARK AND CEMETERY. 
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for thinning trees is when you plant them; you can 
never trust your committees to vote promptly to do 
it, and God alone can help the plantations left to 
the tender mercies of business men and politicians. 
Any immediate effects are better and more econom- 
ically to be had with shrubs, and there are no 
groups more delightful in nature than those where 
trees grow up from among them. About all the 
Polypetalous and Monopetalous groups are well 
provided with plants suitable for undergrowth. The 
Apetalre however are less well provided in temper- 
ate regions and are better adapted to the formation 
of open masses. A considerable area of native 
woodland is included in the plan, and this is sup- 
posed to be thinned and hollowed out so as to ad- 
mit of the planting of a series of out-door flower- 
shows for the various seasons. They may be planted 
and embellished with trees, shrubs and herbs. Sites 
are found in this division for a nursery and trial 
ground, for stables, tool sheds, a compost ground, 
a pumping station on the river bank, and a curator's 
residence in the vicinity of which are the ferns. 
The economic garden is divided between the four 
continents, as is also the range of glass adaptable 
to tropical and sub-tropical plants useful in the arts, 
manufactures and sciences. 
The conservatories are divided between the 
eastern and western hemispheres, as are also the re- 
serve houses behind them, which are supposed to 
be capacious enough to keep the side benches con- 
stantly interesting with fresh flowering plants. The 
central beds in both the tropical and sub-tropical 
divisions should be permanently planted — the cen- 
tral dome chiefly with palms. Two towers are pro- 
vided to be used as smoke-shafts and for water. 
They may be ornamented as minarets or in agree- 
ment with the general architecture — whicli in glass 
buildings admits of vastly more taste and ingenu- 
ity. 
A museum and herbarium building is also ar- 
ranged for, with offices, and a round open tank in 
front furnished with pipes from the heating plant in 
the buildings. At the North such a tank may be 
temporarily covered with glass during the late 
spring, and with such a prolonged season will be 
found better than a Victoria house. 
No wheeled vehicles should be admitted to Bo- 
tanical Gardens. They destroy the repose, dis- 
tract the attention and disturb the sense of security. 
Besides, they dust over the plants and render them 
unsightly. The main lines of roadway are all that 
are supposed to be gravelled, but others may be 
constructed at will. All the subsidiary lines are in 
grass and merely parts of the lawns. In such places 
as the woodlands they are better to remain so, be- 
cause they arc infinitely more economical and com- 
fortable. Americans don’t visitgardens much dur- 
ing wet weather, and when they do they are sure 
to be be-rubbered. 
A last word to those interested in fine gardens 
fo-r instruction is: Never to form them in or too 
near growing cities. It is a serious mistake. Plants 
dislike the smoke and dust of towns. Berlin is 
moving her Botanic Garden. Kew has suffered and 
will suffer, and the day may soon come when they 
must either flit or give up growing several groups 
of plants. The facilities of travel are such now- 
adays that it is planticidal to attempt fine collec- 
tions where they will be suffocated. 
James MaePherson. 
THE CARY MONUMENT. 
The illustration herewith of the “Cary” Memor- 
ial, erected in Spring Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati, 
O., many years ago, to the memory of Robert 
Cary and Elizabeth Jessup, his wife, parents of 
Alice and Pheebe Cary, is interesting from its asso- 
ciations. 
Mrs. H ales says: “The father of Alice and Pheebe 
Cary, was a native of Vermont, who removed to Ohio 
THE CARY MONUMENT, SPRING GROVE CEMETERY, 
CINCINNATI, OFIIO. 
whilst it was a territory. The wild place where he 
settled has become a pleasant village, not far from 
Cincinnati, and there Alice and Pheebe were born.” 
The monument is nestled beneath a noble Nor- 
way spruce immediately upon the avenue, and is 
frequently visited by admirers of the family, and of 
the sweet poetry of Alice and Pheebe, ihose pioneers 
of art effort in America in the realm of poetry. 
