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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
when you see how much it adds to the pleasure of 
your summer drives. 
The St. Louis Civic League has the ambition to per- 
manently clean that city. To that end it has just 
printed and distributed the following card : 
CIVIC CLEANING DAYS 
April 24, 25, SO, 1003, 
WILL 
YOU 
HELP? 
On the other side is the following : 
To the Public: The Civic Improvement League is 
starting a movement to permanently clean St. Louis. 
Everybody can help. It is intended the movement will 
start with Civic Cleaning Days, April 24, 25 and 26, 
1903. On Friday, April 24, citizens are urged to en- 
courage the formation of Block Leagues or Pick Up 
Clubs among the children for the purpose of beautify- 
ing their homes by planting flowers and vines and to 
assist in cleaning sidewalks, vacant lots, etc. Satur- 
day, April 25, it is expected will be proclaimed a legal 
holiday by the Mayor and the significance of the move- 
ment will be emphasized by displaying flags and 
badges. On Sunday, April 26, all clergymen are re- 
quested, in connection with their regular services, to 
urge the importance and benefits to be derived from a 
more healthful and attractive local environment. 
Civic Improvement League, 
605 Colonial Trust Building. 
Write for our Junior Civic League Pamphlet. 
To accompany these cards there is a badge of white 
satin ribbon five inches long and one and a half inches 
wide, on which is printed in blue a circular stamp in- 
closing the design of its emblematic button, as shown 
in this department last month, surrounded by the words 
“Civic Improvement League, St. Louis.” Below are 
the words “Cleaning Davs, April 24-25-26, 1903. I 
WILL HELP.” 
This admirable means of securing interest and active 
assistance from all classes of citizens may well be 
adopted by every improvement organization intent 
upon accomplishing practical results. 
We are under obligations to Mr. Stevens, Principal 
of the Hodgen School for this information. 
The Village Improvement Association of Newport, 
O., is the “right sort.” It has discovered and an- 
nounced in its local paper that the initials of its name, 
\ . 1. A., spell the Latin via — a way — and has made 
good its right to the title by making a way out of all 
difficulties, verifying also the old adage that “where 
there's a will there’s a way.” The association appears 
to have inspired “a way,” in the way of a new pave- 
ment that follows certain curves as preceding paths 
were allowed to do. This is even better than has been 
hoped or expected of an organization. If the mem- 
bers of the Newport society are already so artistic that 
they have discovered that it is sometimes better to have 
curves in streets as well as variations in surface, in- 
stead of getting" everything down to a dead level and 
making every street run at exact right angles or ex- 
actly parallel with every other street in the place, — we 
are prepared to expect great things from it. For good- 
ness’ sake keep right on in the same way. Don’t, let us 
beg you, permit any “roads to be straightened.” Any- 
body can have straight streets, but it is given to but 
few to have the happiness to live where there is a 
curve in the “way”, an irregularity of ground surface. 
Make the most of such features, and make the plant- 
ing emphasize such features. 
F. C. S. 
Garden Plants— Their Geography— LXXXIX. 
Coniferales Continued. 
The Cupresseie of the older botanists were character- 
ized by erect ovules and spheroidal pollen, features 
which cultivators have rarely time to bother with. They 
included the evergreen and deciduous trees given in 
this article — known as Taxodinese, only a few of which 
are hardy north. It is therefore best to include them 
with the Thuyas, etc., of the older grouping, and mix 
them with all the artistic ability at command. They 
have usually from 2 to 6 cotyledones, smaller linear or 
flatter leaves, often varying greatly in the stages of 
growth, and roundish or oblong cones much smaller 
than those of Abieteie. The pulpy coned Junipers are 
excluded. 
Sequoia in two species are the big redwoods of Cal- 
ifornia. S. gigantea has been more written about than 
any other American tree. It stretches along the 
western slope of the Sierra Nevadas at elevations of 
about 5,000 to' 7,000 feet, growing among other coni- 
fers in about a dozen patches over a length from north 
to south of about 250 miles. The southern groves are 
the most reproductive. The actually measured trees of 
more than 300 feet high are but four or five, ranging 
from 307 to 325 feet, but with immense diameters of 
from 14 to 19 feet — 6 feet above ground. It is esti- 
mated that but 500 trees remain of 200 feet high and 
upwards. 
