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PARK AND CEMETERY 
of a vigorous plant of that fine native vine, Celastrus 
scandens (Bitter-sweet). 
The good mid-summer effect of the Rosa setigera 
massed in front and directly against the building is 
especially commented on by the planter, and perhaps it 
is well to say that this effect may be greatly enhanced 
by carpeting the ground under and around this rose 
with Rosa Wichuraiana, or some of its beautiful hy- 
brids. These roses have the foliage and habit of their 
Japanese parent, creeping to make a flat ground cover, 
or building themselves into low, billowy mounds ; and 
cover themselves abundantly once a year, mostly later 
in the season than June roses, with a lovely harvest of 
white, pink or rose, single or semi-double flowers of 
small size, but delicately beautiful form, many of them 
being fragrant. Their small, glossy, healthy and per- 
sistent foliage, and their habit, are of even greater value 
to the landscape planter than their bloom, and they 
are as useful and satisfactory among rugosa roses, or 
alone, as they are beneath the fountain-shaped plants 
of the highly desirable Michigan wild rose. Most of 
the roses mentioned produce ornamental hips more or 
less generously, which adds greatly to their list of 
advantages for school ground planting as they are 
in perfection when the schools open in the fall. 
Improvement organizations and individual workers 
should have an especial interest in the splendid exam- 
ple set by the Buildings and Grounds Committee of the 
Ware, Mass., School Board, as it clearly shows what a 
transformation may be wrought by a small sum of 
money expended in planting when backed by taste and 
experience in the form of an explicit working plan. 
The estimated cost of planting to date on these 
grounds is only $300, and the approval of the citizens 
at large is said to be unanimously in favor of the work 
accomplished. Indeed it would be difficult to conceive 
of any kind of a man failing to perceive and admit the 
superiority of appearance in such grounds over the 
barrack-yard school grounds seen in almost every town 
and village. 
A Mountain LooKout and ParK Cafe 
The accompanying design for a mountain lookout 
and cafe for Mount Royal Park, Montreal, Canada, 
was prepared by Frederick G. Todd, landscape archi- 
tect, of that city, and is now under consideration by 
the Parks’ and Ferries’ Committee. 
The great natural beauty of the mountain scenery 
of Mount Royal and the fine views which are obtain- 
able from the proposed site, make it imperative that 
the shelter and cafe should be arranged in such a 
manner as to harmonize with the natural beauty of the 
park, and interfere as little as possible with the mag- 
nificent views. 
The cafe will be of rough stone, with low tiled roof 
and broad, projecting eaves, and being placed well 
back among the trees, the kitchen wing will be about 
entirely concealed, while the low cafe will be masked 
by foliage enough to make it unobtrusive, but interest- 
ing. On the southerly side of the enclosed cafe, which 
will seat over one hundred people at small tables, will 
be an open cafe, which can be used in conjunction 
with the main dining-room whenever necessary, the 
two combined seating about two hundred persons. This 
outdoor cafe, it is intended, will be used ordinarily 
as a part of the lookout, where simple refreshments 
may be served, and it may be easily enclosed in winter 
by inserting windows between the stone pillars. 
From this open-air cafe, will lead a covered shelter 
in the shape of a quadrant to a square tower, situated 
as near the edge of the precipice, as it would be safe 
to go. This shelter will be low and entirely open, but 
covered with a tiled roof with broad projecting eaves, 
supported by rough stone pillars. From this small, 
square tower, an open terrace will extend in an easter- 
ly direction parallel to the precipice, for sixty-five feet, 
to another similar square 
tower. 
Betwen these towers there 
will remain sixty-five feet of 
unbroken view. As one drives 
along the mountain road, the 
low tiled roof will be seen 
through the trees, and the 
magnificent vista over the city 
and river to the mountains be- 
yond will be visible between 
the two picturesque towers. 
Leading from this easterly 
tower will be another covered 
shelter, in the shape of a quar- 
ter-circle to a large octagonal 
shelter, thirty-six feet in di- 
ameter, from which grand views will be obtained up 
and down the river. 
