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Wood, are unusual and suggestive. The society 
was incorporated in ’96; its aim is to beautify the 
village; it has built good sidewalks and made a 
strip oi lawn outside of them, both of which it 
maintains; gives prizes for the best collection of 
flowers in three varieties; interests the public in its 
Avork by each member “showing his neighbor how 
his neighbor keeps up his lawn;” has set out 75 
street trees this year; and hires a ball ground for 
the use and pleasure of the town boys. Is not 
this last feature a “new departure” and one worthy 
the consideration of other organizations? 
A NICE EEFECT. 
This shows a part of the liorder next to the house seen in 
the preceding illustration, but from a different point of view. 
The former shows the lawn and borders as seen frcm the 
street; the latter gives a glimpse looking from near the peach 
tree tcnuards the street. Indeed, some drooping foliage of a 
Cinnamon vine seen in the extreme left hand upper corner of 
the picture are a part of the vine drapery on a branch of the 
tree. On the right is seen the same tall Burbank Canna stard- 
ing among blossoming Salvias; bej'ond, a part of the vine 
screen near the house suggests to some extent its bulk and im- 
imrtance in the decorative scheme; near the veranda, the almost 
perfectly symmetrical plant of that valuable hardy grass, Eu- 
lalia gracillima, shows to good advantage; and outlined against 
it, some of the flowers of the invaluable fall-flowering white 
.Vnemone Japonica are plainly visible, as are also a few stray 
sprays of Vinca rosea and alba and of Ageraturn. The large 
shade trees next to the street are soft or Silver Maples and part 
of a beautiful little Siberian Maple standing in a group of hardy 
Japanese maples near the gate, is also seen. 
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The Rev. Chas. J. Bethune, vice-president of 
the London (Ontario, Canada) Horticultural So- 
ciety, reports that their society, although only 
organized in January last, has already given two 
very successful flower shows, several lectures, and 
has distributed among members shrubs, bulbs, etc., 
all for the purpose of cultivating and encouraging 
a taste for better surroundings, and to lead them 
to pay more attention to their lawns and gardens 
as well as to develop an interest through these means 
in public streets and in parks. He says that the 
residential streets of London are broad, and have 
a double row of handsome trees on each side, with 
a wide lawn in front of each house, and that no 
fences are permitted, a .single low rail with posts 
being the most that is allowed. He justly adds 
that “little more is required to make these streets 
as handsome as any in North America.” F. C. S. 
PUBLIC PARKS AND RECREATION GROUNDS, 
SYDNEY, NEW SOUTH WALES, AUSTRALIA. 
By the courtesy of the Under Secretary for 
Lands, of New South Wales, Australia, we are 
enabled to give the following on the control and 
management of the Public Parks and Recreation 
Grounds of the City of Sydney. These public 
grounds are not all controlled by the same Trustees 
nor administered under the same Act of Parliament. 
There are, principally, three classes: 
P'irst. Areas which are retained under the 
direct control of the Government and managed by 
its salaried officers. 
Second. Areas which have been placed for 
purposes of management under Honorary Trustees. 
Third. Areas which have been placed under 
the control of the Municipal Council of the city of 
Sydney. 
In the first class are included the Government 
Domain, the Botanic Gardens, and the Centennial 
Park. These are under the supervisicn of tlie 
Director of the Botanic Gardens^ — a salaried officer 
of the Chief Secretary’s Department. 
The Domain and Botanic Gardens are ad- 
ministered under the Crown Lands Act of 188-1, 
and the Regulations governing it are made in 
pursuance of Section 106 of that Act 48 Vic. No. 
18. The Centennial Park, which adjoins the City 
on its Eastern boundary is administered under the 
Centenary Celebration Act of 1888, by the Chief 
Minister. 
The principal Grounds under the control of 
Honorary Trustees (Individuals) are Hyde Park, 
Cook Park, Phillip Park, and Rusheutter Bay Park. 
The first named (Hyde Park ) is considered to 
be the most important of City Parks, and its 
administration, together with Cook and Phillip 
Parks, comes under the Public Parks Act of 1884, 
which is administered by the Secretary for Lands. 
The By-laws for the management of these Parks 
are made by the Trustees under that Act, subject 
to the approval of His Excellency the Governor 
and the Executive Council of New South Wales. 
The areas of which the Municipal Council of 
Sydney are Trustees as appointed by His PZxcellency 
the Governorare Moore Park ( or Sydney Common j , 
Wynyard Park, Prince Alfred Park, Belmore Paik, 
