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as all old trees will be found to be rotten at the core. 
For a flowering street-tree the Western Catalpa is an 
excellent substitute, quite tropical in its suggestion, and 
is a vigorous grower. The so-called “Carolina Poplar” 
is a seedless form of 
Peterson’s Bronze Asli. 
this numerous 
family and is the 
popular tree of the 
day. Wiih an erect 
habit and rapid 
growth, it combines 
a dignified disre- 
gard for soot and 
smoke and like the 
Catalpa thrives in 
clay or sand. The 
Thornless Honey 
Locust has a light 
feathery foliage and 
is esteemed by 
many. Our Teu- 
tonic friends favor 
it, for its resem- 
blance to their be- 
loved Acacia. The 
irregular and low- 
branching habit of 
the Box Elder 
makes it more suit- 
able for screen work than line planting. The Silver 
Maple is of quick growth and if the top is properly 
trained, is mora shapely than the slow growing and 
more rigid Sugar Maple but both have a host of ad- 
mirers. If the Elm is the “King of the Forest” then 
the Norway Maple is its “Queen.” It is free from all 
attacks of insects, leaves out early, gives a grateful 
shade, and is the 
last to drop its 
go,lden tinted 
foliage. 
The Experi- 
mental Stations 
have found the 
Hackberry, in ap 
pearance much re 
sembling the Elm, 
to best withstand 
dry parching winds, 
and long seasons of 
drought. For formal 
planting the Linden 
and Rock or Cork- 
barked Elm are very 
much in vogue. 
In selecting an 
ironclad variety to 
withstand all ad- 
verse circumstances 
the White Ash easily 
takes the lead. The 
soil may be light or 
heavy, be flooded in the spring or badly cracked in 
summer, yet, with no attention whatever the Ash will 
grow right on. The “Bronze Ash,” botanically known 
as Fraxinus Americana Petersonii, is a local form em- 
bodying the good points of the Ash just mentioned with 
a dark green foliage, holding late, and with fine autumnal 
Hackberry. 
colors. The English Field Elm is of much slower 
growth than the American and has a smoother bark. It 
does not transplant as readily and owing to a tendency 
to become sour-hearted, is not used in the west except 
as a lawn tree. Several varieties of the Scotch Elm are 
beginning to find favor as street trees; but the noblest 
and grandest of them all is the American Elm, the ideal 
boulevard tree. 
.Some people imagine that a goodly sized Elm can- 
not be transplanted with any degree of success. In 
.substantiating the claims made, I can cite the result of 
540 Elm trees, five to six inches in diameter, which we 
planted on Ridge Avenue in Rogers Park, three years 
ago, of which not a single tree died. The ancients held 
the Elm in venerable esteem. Virgil termed it a pro- 
phetic tree and possibly beneath its leafy canopy, with 
the breezes playing through the boughs overhead, 
penned these lines: 
“Full in the midst, a spreading elm displayed 
His aged arms, and cast a mighty shade; 
Each trembling leaf with some bright vision teems 
And leaves impregnated with airy dreams.” 
The above paper w?is read at a meeting in Chicago 
of the Western Society of Engineers, by Wm. A. Peter- 
son, the manager of Peterson’s Nursery. 
The paper was illustrated with slides made from 
photographs of the varieties mentioned. The state- 
ments made are based on an experience of forty-five 
years in Chicago. 
THE FLEISCHMANN MAUSOLEUM, SPRING GROVE 
CEMETERY, CINCINNATI, O. 
It is seldom, even in the experience of the large 
cemeteries, that the opportunity offers to locate a 
structure of any kind so favorably as that of the 
Fleischmann mausoleum in Spring Grove cemetery, 
Cincinnati, O., and the illustration needs no text 
to attest the statement. 
In design the mausoleum is a reproduction ol 
the Parthenon at Athens, and is constructed of 
Barre granite. It is surrounded by 26 Doric columns 
12 ft. high and i8in. in diameter and was constructed 
by the Harrison Granite Co., NewYork City. 
The tomb is located on a lot, about 10,000 
square feet in area, which has afforded Mr. Salway 
ail opportunity to create a harmonious setting. It 
may be of interest to designate broadly the plant- 
ing material to be seen on the picture. The prom- 
inent trees on the right of the building are Taxo- 
diums, while on the left are Silver poplars and Taxo- 
diums. In the rear are Elms, Sycamores, Mulberry, 
Taxodiums and Willows. The evergreens in the 
foreground of the building are Abies Orientalis and 
Japan and American Arborvitae. The shrubbery 
interpersed consists of Spiraea Aurea, Syringa, 
Dogwood, Symphoricarpa and Japanese grasse.«. 
The lilies in the lake are the Egyptian Lotus and 
Nymphea rosea. The whole combination presents 
a beautiful picture, a worthy addition to the many 
with which Spring Grove cemetery delights the 
visitor. 
