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PARK AND CEMETERY 
AN ACT 
To prevent the pasting, painting, branding, stamping or plac- 
ing of advertisements, notices, signs, cards or posters in 
certain places, and providing penalties for the viola- 
tion thereof. 
Be it enacted, etc. 
Section i. That no person shall paste, paint, brand or 
stamp, or in any manner whatsoever place upon or attach to 
any building, fence, bridge, gate, outbuilding or other object 
upon the grounds of any charitable, educational or penal insti- 
tution of the State of Pennsylvania, or upon any property be- 
longing to the State of Pennsylvania, or to any County, Town- 
ship, Borough or City therein, any written, printed, painted, 
or other advertisement, bill, notice, sign, card or poster; 
Provided, that nothing herein shall be so construed as to pre- 
vent the posting of any notice required by law or order of 
Court to be posted, nor to prevent the posting or placing of any 
notice particularly concerning or pertaining to the grounds or 
premises upon which the same is so posted or placed. 
Sec. 2. That no person shall paste, paint, brand, stamp, or 
in any manner whatsoever place upon or attach to any build- 
ing, fence, bridge, gate, outbuilding or property of another 
whether within or without the limits of a highway, any writ- 
ten, printed, painted, or other advertisement, bill, notice, sign, 
card or poster, without first having obtained the written con- 
sent of the owner or tenant lawfully in possession or occu- 
pancy thereof. 
Sec. 3. Any person convicted of a violation of the pro- 
visions of this Act shall be deemed to be guilty of a misde- 
meanor and shall upon conviction be fined in a sum not less 
than Five (5) nor more than Twenty (20) Dollars; and such 
written, printed, painted, or other advertisement, bill, notice, 
sign, card or poster is hereby declared to be a public nuisance, 
and may be removed and abated as such. 
NOTES. 
The Semi-Centennial Civic Improvement League of 
Topeka, Kan., did a good thing for the city when it 
set apart the first Saturday in every month as a regular 
“cleaning up” day of alleys and back yards. The press 
aided nobly by calling attention to the fact each time 
the day came around, and it was very generally ob- 
served, much to the advantage of rear premises. 
* * * 
The Minneapolis Improvement League was search- 
ing for a motto some time back. Did it find one, will 
it kindly tell us what it was, and will every organiza- 
tion having a motto be good enough to favor us in 
the same way ? 
GARDEN PLANTS— THEIR GEOGRAPHY— 
LXXXVII, 
CONlEERALES continued. 
Pseudotsuga Douglasii is the “Douglas Fir,” one of 
the most famous conifers of the Pacific slope. The 
generic name has been devised for it, because it is 
neither Picea nor Abies, but intermediate. The coty- 
ledons are three sided and vary from 6 to 12 accord- 
ing to some, and from 5 to 7 according to others. The 
leaves are two-rowed, flat, petioled, and vary in color 
from dark green with glaucous undersides, to light 
green, glaucous and variegated. The male flowers 
resemble the Piceas, the cones too are pendant. The 
wood is largely used 1 but variable, as may well be sup- 
posed of a species which has a range of growth from 
about 55 0 N. in British Columbia to the highlands of 
Mexico, east to Montana, Colorado and Arizona. 
It is a highly ornamental and rapid growing tree in 
cultivation, but should be planted in good groups or 
otherwise sheltered in canyons or valleys, for if ex- 
posed it will suffer from high winds. The specimen 
at Dropmore maybe the largest in Europe, is about 
130 feet high — far overtopping everything else — and 
has several times had its leader injured in conse- 
quence. Now, although the Pacific forms do well in 
Britain and several other parts of Europe, they will 
not do well in the Atlantic States. Neither are the 
plants grown from seed collected on the southern 
parts of the Rocky Mountains to be relied upon. If a 
Douglas Eir browns during winter it will be safe to 
assume that it has been collected from a convenient 
locality bristling with vexation for the northern 
grower. It is from the most difficult and dry Rocky 
Mountain altitudes where the foliage is apt to be glau- 
cous, that seed should be collected for the north At- 
lantic and Prairie States. There are those who regu- 
larly import and coddle young stock raised from Eu- 
ropean seed of Pacific derivation. It is not reliable. 
The veteran nurseryman Douglas, of Waukegan, was 
about the first to take infinite pains to procure seed 
of the hardy Rocky Mountain conifers, and such as he 
should be patronized. It is to be noted that the vari- 
ety taxifolia was commonly reckoned the most hardy 
30 or 40 years ago, although it seems to have been de- 
rived from- “Mexico.” It probably exists with the 
type in other parts of the range. When planting the 
Douglas Fir it will be well to afford it distances of 50 
or 60 feet apart for proper development, anything 
closer will mean, if it succeeds, the ultimate loss of 
the lower branches. Larches or spruces may be used 
to thicken and protect all the Abieteie, cutting them 
away before they touch any evergreens or each other. 
The recognized varieties are mostly of European se- 
lection from Pacific stock and unreliable north. Any 
varieties desired should be selected from western nur- 
sery rows. The Klew flagstaff is a single stick of the 
Douglas Fir from Oregon. It is 159 feet long, but 
little more than half the height of the finest trees of 
that coast. Efforts have been made from time to time 
to change the specific name of the tree to taxifolia. 
It commemorates the famous Scotch collector and 
explorer, David Douglas, the introducer of this and 
many others of the grand conifers of Northwest 
America to Europe. There are people who would try 
to deflect the Gulf stream with a feather ! It is said 
other similar species exist in Japan, but I don’t know 
about them. 
[To be continued ] 
