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PARK AND CEMETERY 
cessible to the city. They are served by two trans- 
portation companies, the Southern Pacific Railroad 
and the San Francisco & San Mateo Electric Road, 
and excellent service and equipment is thus supplied. 
“Mount Olivet’’ has constructed a railway connection 
of its own one-half mile in length upon which cars 
are kept moving and by which transfers are made and 
switching done from both the electric and steam rail- 
roads just mentioned. This connection is parked and 
makes a distinct and attractive adjunct to the cemetery, 
permitting funeral and passenger cars to run directly 
to the cemetery building of Mount Olivet and into the 
grounds. 
It is fortunate for the inhabitants of San Francisco 
that the cemetery question admitted of so satisfactory 
a solution, for it is evident that the conditions' pertain- 
ing to the San Mateo County sites were all that could 
be desired for the purpose and it is to be hoped that, 
situated as they are in such close proximity one to the 
other, the modern practice of landscape cemeteries may 
reach a development in harmony with the beautiful 
climate and scenic surroundings. 
IN THE OLD 
CATHOLIC 
CEMETERY, 
SAN FRANCISCO, 
CALIFORNIA. 
An Appeal to Nurserymen. 
In an address before the annual convention of the 
National Nurserymen’s Association at Atlanta, Ga., 
Prof. John Craig urged nurserymen to use their in- 
fluence in educating the public to a better under- 
standing of the relative value of trees suitable for 
street, lawn and park planting. The following ex- 
tract from the address is from the National Nursery- 
man: 
“Take the Carolina poplar. Thousands-, perhaps 
millions, of this quick-growing, short-lived, borer- 
infested trees are sold for street trees, boulevards and 
parks. Does the sale of this tree permanently ad- 
vance tree planting enterprises ? It is true that the 
tree has its place ; it may be used for quick effects, for 
a filler between slower growing permanent trees ; but 
too often it is set out as a finality, as a finished pro- 
duct. 
“Then there is the box elder. It has its virtues : 
Rapid growth, ruggedness, general ability to with- 
stand neglect and a self-efficiency wanting in many 
forms vastly more valuable. This tree has had its 
day in the cities, but it is still being planted in coun- 
try places in preference to the vastly superior soft 
maple and its beautiful and long-lived cousin, sugar 
maple. Again, in selling the box elder in the North 
the relative hardiness of geographical varieties is over- 
looked. Box elder of Ohio and the South will often 
freeze down north of the 42d parallel, while the north- 
ern form is perfectly hardy. 
“Native trees, as a rule, are superior to imported 
types of the same genus. For example, the European 
elm does not compare in stately beauty with the Amer- 
ican elm. Neither is the Scotch elm, which I see 
planted in Atlanta streets, equal to our own citizen. 
European linden is much inferior to Tilia Americana 
in durability, size and general luxuriousness. Nor- 
way spruce has many excellent points to commend it, 
but we have only to examine the old specimens of the 
plains to note that it has passed its meridian and is 
on the wane, while the native white is but approach- 
ing the fullness of its stature. 
“Along the line of aesthetics in planting, how many 
lawns have been rendered unsightly by the planting 
of vegetable monstrosities in the form of cheap and 
distinctly ugly weeping trees. Perhaps the weeping 
willow is the most obtrusively objectionable. It is 
omnipresent in tbe smaller towns. The mountain ash 
is an improvement, but has many years of ugliness 
before its base stem and contorted outlines are ob- 
scured. The weeping form of the white birch is pleas- 
ing, but its life is short and borers often make it full 
of trouble. Among the more permanent and desir- 
able forms are the drooping beeches and elms : but 
even these can be overdone.” 
