PARK AND CEMETERY. 
Selected Notes and Miscellany, 
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Protecting Shade Trees . 
This method for the treatment of 
borers and running sores is 1 recom- 
mended by the Wyoming Experiment 
Station, says Country Life in America. 
Carefully remove all grubs and other 
larvze; dig out the decayed tissue. Then, 
if the wound is one that will conduct 
water to the interior of the stem, fill it 
with grafting-wax and putty, and make 
it waterproof with paint or tar. 
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Shrubbery in Cemeteries. 
Shrubbery in cemeteries gives us a 
wonderful richness and variety of color 
and fragrance. They give us the ear- 
liest foliage in spring and the latest in 
the fall. They furnish us with the most 
beautiful flowers year after year and re- 
quire but little expense or attention on 
our part. All they need is soil and 
space in which to grow. The space is 
frequently given very grudgingly or de- 
nied altogether. When cemetery lots 
cost from one to five dollars per square 
foot it is claimed that all the land should 
be available for graves ; but people will 
erect monuments on their lots costing 
hundreds and often thousands of dol- 
lars. What is sought in a cemetery lot? 
A burial place, of course, but in addi- 
tion to that the most beautiful effect that 
can be secured for the amount of money 
the purchaser chooses to spend. Com- 
pare in your minds a lot on which the 
only objects are a monument and head- 
stones set in green turf, with a lot hav- 
ing a smaller monument, but in which 
the money saved in that way has been 
expended in additional area and shrubs. 
In the latter no more money is expended, 
but a background is provided for a lot 
as well as for the monument. Other 
monuments are shut out of sight so 
that they will not compete with the one 
to which attention should be drawn. 
The shrubbery may in effect extend the 
lot to the foliage of surrounding trees 
far beyond the actual land purchased. 
If the monument is omitted altogether 
and its place taken by a tree or shrub or 
a beautiful turf the effect will in most 
cases be still further improved. It will 
certainly be more peaceful and quiet. 
The shrubs that do well with us are the 
honeysuckles, hardy hydrangea, lilacs, 
viburnums, syringas, spireas, dogwoods, 
elderberries, flowering currants, snow- 
berry, Indian currants, sweet-scented 
shrub, hazel, sumacs, dwarf Juneberry, 
sweet briar, wild roses, Japan quince, 
barberries, double-flowering plums, flow- 
ering almonds, witch hazel and button 
bush. The forsyths have done well the 
last two years on account of our excep- 
tional winters, but usually they blossom 
only below the snow line. The garland 
flower or Japanese daphne makes a most 
beautiful little evergreen shrub when 
given a slight protection in winter. — O. 
C. Simonds. 
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Appropriate Memorials. 
Libraries, hospitals, bridges and play- 
grounds are replacing statues as memori- 
als to individuals, and the change is 
wholesome. Traces of the same tendency 
sometimes show themselves in connec- 
tion with the celebration of historic an- 
niversaries. It has been suggested that 
Henry Hudson’s great discovery be com- 
memorated, not in a world’s fair, but by 
an adequate waterway between the Hud- 
son and the Great Lakes. Next July 
Chicago will observe the centenary of 
its birth at Fort Dearborn. How mem- 
orable the occasion would be if the 
smoke nuisance or the stock yard odors 
could be abolished ! Statues and tablets 
are often excellent, but clean streets, 
pure air, open parks — all things that con- 
tribute to better physical and moral 
health in urban life— are better. — Cal- 
ifornia M unici polities. 
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Reported Decay of Central Park, 
Nemj York. 
“The sensational reports which were 
given out last season regarding the early 
decay of Central Park were as mislead- 
ing and erroneous as they were absurd 
and uncalled for. How anyone making 
a profession of landscape architecture, 
and an official of the Park Department 
at that, could have been accredited with 
the authorship and authority for those 
alarming predictions, is to the average 
layman quite unaccountable. The pres- 
ent appearance of the parks is a com- 
plete vindication of the report of the 
able and competent experts who were 
later employed by the Park Board to in- 
vestigate the ‘two 1 feet deep interment 
process’ that had been recommended for 
restoring the decaying tendency in Cen- 
tral Park. Even a casual examination 
should have been sufficient to warrant 
the experts in completely ignoring, as 
they did in their report, the nonsensical 
recommendations mentioned. It is 
doubtful if the trees, shrub groupings 
and lawns were ever more beautiful or 
generally in better condition than now. 
Central Park, as are all the other parks 
of the city, is improving with age. The 
specimen plane trees, maples, elms, lin- 
dens, horsechestnuts, beeches, oaks and 
other varieties, instead of showing de- 
cay, are in the prime of normal and vig- 
orous development, and will continue to 
grow in attractiveness for many years 
to come. The plan adopted for the res- 
toration of the overgrown shrubbery 
plantations and improvement of the 
lawns appears to have been generally ef- 
fective. The thinning process has pro- 
duced good results and can no doubt be 
further employed to excellent advan- 
tage.” — Frederick IV. Kelsey in Brook- 
lyn Eagle. 
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The Pirtue of Potatoes. 
One morning we began to plant shrubs. 
“Where will ye have the rosey dan- 
drums?” was my greeting from Thomas 
as I entered the garden. Plaving noticed 
from the breakfast table that he had 
slyly buried something at the bottom of 
each hole prepared for the planting, I 
waited for my chance the first minute 
he was out of sight, dropped on my 
knees, felt around in the soft soil at the 
bottom of the hole and unearthed — a 
potato. Another hole and still another 
was examined. Yes, here was a potato in 
each ; he must have wasted a bushel ! 
“Thomas,” I said, when he had re- 
turned with a load from the compost 
heap, “what are these potatoes doing 
down here?” 
“Divil a tree will grow in Oireland 
without wan,” he explained. “How is 
that?” I asked, in darkest ignorance. 
“Ye see, mum, the patatey sprouts 
first off, then, begorrah, it lifts the loife 
into the tree and obliges it to push up 
forninst.” As a matter of fact we did 
not lose tree or shrub, in spite of the 
long drought. — Country Life in America. 
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The Railroads and Forestry. 
The Bureau of Forestry continues this 
year on a far larger scale the experi- 
ments in timber seasoning and preserva- 
tion for the railroads which it began last 
year under Dr. Hermann von Schrenk. 
This summer the work will be carried on 
in many states — East, South and West— 
and will be broadened in scope and made 
even more thorough than before. This 
work will be done for the New York 
Central, the Erie, the Baltimore and 
Ohio, and the Pennsylvania railroads in 
the East, and the Illinois Central, the 
Santa Fe, the St. Louis and San Fran- 
cisco, the Missouri, Kansas and Texas, 
the Northern Pacific and the Burlington 
in the South and West. The scarcity of 
valuable timbers is felt by no class of 
consumers more keenly than by the rail- 
roads, which use every year 110,000,000 
ties merely to renew those worn out and 
decayed. The price of timbers has risen 
in some instances to a figure which makes 
their use prohibitive ; in other cases the 
supply is so nearly exhausted that the 
roads have been compelled to look about 
for new timbers .— Washington Post. 
