PARK AND CE.ME-TE.RY. 
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ENTRANCE TO OLD GRAY CEMETERY, KNOXVILLE, TENN. 
Cemetery Gateway, Knoxville, Tenn. 
The gateway illustrated here was recently erected at 
the Broadway entrance to the Old Gray Cemetery, 
Knoxville, Tenn. 
It was designed by Chas. L. Lawhon, of that city, 
and consists of a handsome double iron gate swinging 
from two posts of McMullen gray marble. These are 
built up in sections out of six inch slabs securely 
clamped on the inside and filled with concrete. The 
joints are almost invisible, and the pillars have every 
appearance of being solid. All of the cap finish is solid. 
The posts are four feet square at the base and 12 
feet to the base of the urns, which are 3-6 high, mak- 
ing the total height 15-6. They were erected by the 
Tennessee Producers’ Marble Co., and cost $1,500. 
The Value of Street Trees. 
Extract from a paper read by Mr. Gustave X. Amrhyn before the New Haven Horticultnral Society. 
From the Bulletin of the N. E. Assn, of Park Superintendents. 
The good that is effected bv parks in the 
outskirts of the city is small as compared 
with what may be carried out by planting streets 
and avenues, that the air in which the people 
work and sleep may day and night be compara- 
tively pure and free and their tired eyes refreshed with 
green at almost every point. These results can only 
be effected if a regular system is created. Thus only 
can we enjoy tree lined streets and avenues of which 
all interested in city improvements can justly be proud. 
All such improvements would result in a clear gain to 
the health and business of the city. Wide tree planted 
avenues might lead from the heart of the city to the 
different parks or out to the suburbs and would act as 
veins of salubrity to the regions they traverse. The in- 
crease in the value of the property adjoining such main 
thoroughfares alone would almost repay the outlay. 
(Here followed a list of trees recommended for street 
planting in New Haven.) 
In view of the extensive street planting which is 
done, it is surprising to see the mismanagement exist- 
ing in most of our cities. Everyone plants to suit him- 
self, having a favorite tree of his own, and ninety times 
out of one hundred no provisions are made to promote 
the existence of the newly planted tree. A hole is dug 
and the tree buried in it and that is the end. Some of 
die most enterprising people even venture to plant trees 
between the bricks or stones of the sidewalk pavement. 
When I was employed in the parks of Paris, France, 
1 had the opportunity to study probably the best sys- 
tem of tree planting in the world. It is simply surpris- 
ing to see how well the trees are managed there and to 
an enormous extent they are planted, in the center, along 
the river, on the boulevards, on the radiating avenues 
and thoroughfares and for hundreds of miles along the 
boulevards of the suburbs. The trees all look vigorous 
and promising. Every tree is trained and pruned so as 
to form a symmetrical head with perfect, clean stem. 
