PARK AND CEMETERY. 
A HOME PLANTING, 
The accompanying illustration shows a bit of 
local improvement carried out by Mr. Robert 
Ridgway, of Brookland. D. C., the planting of 
which he describes as follows: 
“The hedge consists of Japan honeysuckle 
(evergreen); and after ten years experience with it 
my admiration of this plant for that purpose 
increases, I consider it in all respects far superior 
to any bush hedge; more quickly grown, more 
easily kept in order, never attacked by any insect, 
even when other plants on my place, including the 
coral honeysuckle, have been literally devoured by 
them; never showing gaps, and beautiful in winter 
as well as in summer. It is trained on “chicken” 
netting, the cedar posts connected and bound to- 
gether at tops by double wire cable. 
“The tall trees are pines, covered with various 
A HOME PCANTIXG, BROOKI.AND, D. C. 
woody vines, all native, most numerous and 
attractive among which is the beautiful evergreen 
cross-vine, Bignonia capreolata. Other vines are 
the American Wistaria, A. frutescens, climbing 
Hydrangea, Decumaria barbara, “Bitter Sweet,” 
Celastrus Scandens, and several species of smilax, 
etc. 
PUBLIC MEETINGS IN THE MANCHESTER, ENGLAND, 
PARKS. 
The English people are known to have always 
been very jealous of what they conceive to be 
their rights, and the following incident of how 
certain classes of citizens secured the right of public 
meetings in the park known as Boggart Hole 
Clough, Manchester, a view in which was given in 
our last November issue, may be of interest. We 
are indebted to Mr. Norbury Williams, one of the 
Citizens Auditors of Manchester, for photographs 
and descriptions of the incident: 
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In Manchester, the Socialists had for some 
years been in the habit of speaking at street corners 
and in other similiar public places, and part of the 
park known as “Boggart Hole Clough” forming a 
natural amphitheatre, they began to hold meetings 
there. These were attended by large numbers of 
people, and caused dissatisfaction to some of the 
members of the Park Committee of the Corporation, 
who interpreting the By-Laws prohibitory to the 
holding of such meetings, the Socialists were 
accordingly warned to desist. They resented the 
prohibition and stoutly insisted on what they 
deemed their rights. The chairman of the Park 
Committee ordered a prosecution, and this com- 
mittee afterwards confirmed his action. This 
occurred in the summer of 1896. 
Numbers of those attending or speaking at the 
meetings were brought before the magistrates and 
fined, some paying the fines. The 
first to resist and to elect to go 
to jail for a month was Mr. 
Leonard Hall, while in the fol- 
lowing week Mr. Frederick 
Brocklehurst, B. A., followed his 
example and served a month in 
prison. The latter gentleman is 
now a prominent member of the 
Manchester City Council. 
Afterwards Mr. Bruce Glasier, 
a prominent Glasgow Socialist, 
Mr. Keir Hardie.a Socialist, ex.- 
M. P. and a number of ladies were 
summoned, as well as several 
local men who volunteered to 
assert their rights. The crisis 
came when the Magistrates were 
confronted with Mrs. Pankhurst, 
wife of Dr. R. M. Pankhurst, a well known barrister 
and Socialist. In the dock she demanded that no 
favor should be extended to her, but that she 
should be sent to jail like the others. Popular 
indignation had risen to a high pitch. The weekly 
attendance at the meetings had so increased that 
the Co-operation Committee applied to the local 
Government Board in London for new By-Laws 
and the weekly prosecutions were abandoned. The 
result was that one of the new laws made the meet- 
ings permissible after application had been made 
to and received from the committee, the sale of 
literature and the making of money collections 
were prohibited. 
When Messrs. Hall and Brocklehurst were re- 
leased from jail they were received by acclamation 
by crowds of citizens, and one of the first results 
of the renewing collisions between the Corporation 
and the people was a municipal contest for a seat 
