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PARK AND CEMETERY 
A Huge Boulder Monument, Syracuse, N. Y. 
The accompanying scene in Oakwood Cemetery, 
Syracuse, N. Y., shows the colossal boulder recently 
placed on the Crouse lot by McDonald, Cutler & Co., 
of Barre, Vt. The placing of the huge stone involved 
quite a feat in transportation. It weighs about 80 
tons and was moved a distance of eight miles from the 
Vessey farm, near Split Rock, N. Y. The boulder 
was transported on rolls at an expense of about $4,500, 
and eight weeks were required for the work. Its di- 
mensions are: 15-0x9-6x8-0. The family name, in 
large, raised letters, is the only inscription. A small 
boulder of the same stone is used for a marker. 
CROUSE BOUT.DER MONUMENT, OAKWOOD CEMETERY, SYRACUSE, N. Y. 
Garden Plants— THeir Geography (CVII) Aroidales. 
The Pandanus, Philodendron and Arum alliance. 
Ihe Arum group is one of the most extraordinary in 
the world of plants. The remarkable diluvian aspect 
of their foliage and flowers sufficiently characterizes 
the greater number. There are 31 tribes, 119 genera 
and 1,062 species, many of which have broken into a 
host of garden forms. Some aquatic species are the 
very smallest of flowering plants, while others pro- 
duce about the largest of all flowers. The minute 
rootless floating globules called Wolffia Columbiana, 
twenty or thirty to the inch, with several little duck- 
weeds, are scarcely suspected to be flowering plants by 
the average of mankind. It is not so very difficult to 
imagine the evolution from these to the “water let- 
tuce,” Pistia stratiotes, found floating on fresh tropi- 
cal waters almost everywhere. Then along the Medi- 
terranean lands are the little ambrosinias, in two or 
three forms, whose remarkable reproductive arrange- 
ments have the ordinary spadix of the alliance reduced 
to a tiny flower consisting of little more than a naked 
stamen and ovary with a bit spathe as covering. An 
advance to more complete character is Ariopsis peltata, 
growing on the Himalayas at about 5,000 to 7,000 
feet, a little affair of three or four leaves, a little stalk, 
a little hooded spathe and smaller spadix — the whole 
outfit half a thumb high. In North America many 
are familiar with the “Indian turnip” and the “Skunk 
cabbage.” Amorphophallus Titanum is an enormously 
big “Skunk cabbage” from Western Sumatra. The 
spadix is an affair of five to nine feet long, encircled 
by a frilled mottled green purple lined spathe three 
or four feet across. A moderate sized tuber is a foot 
across. There’s a chance for you, Senator Childs ! 
Perhaps less than ten per cent of the aroids are 
hardy north, but few of which are very ornamental. 
In the moist sub-tropics it is different. The majority 
of species grow naturally in the great conservative 
belt of the tropical mountains at elevations ranging 
from about 1,000 to 5,000 feet. There are often found 
the large alocasias and colocasias in a great variety of 
species, with curiously formed and colored foliage, and 
a vast assortment of epiphytes and of climbers in the 
way of philodendron and monstera climbing and sup- 
porting themselves by guy-roots. Seeing the vast in- 
crease of transportation it is a little remarkable that 
