PARK AND CEMETERY 
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Once there lived a woman who 
led an army of Christian soldiers 
into a province of Mohammedans 
and drove them out forever. 
When Isabella of Castile planted 
her standard on the walls of 
Granada, she was in the zenith 
of her splendid womanhood. Pure 
in heart, steadfast in purpose, she 
was truly fit to be the god-mother 
of a nation — a nation that should 
engender such virility as to be- 
come one of the greatest in less 
than five centuries. So joyfully 
we lay our palm branches across 
the marble recumbent image of 
the great queen, that is modeled 
upon the sarcophagus next to that 
of Ferdinand in the cathedral of 
the conquered city. When we re- 
member that in Isabella’s last will 
and testament she pleads for a 
simple interment, we are apt to 
regret the elaborate tomb and the still more pretentious 
iron reja that encloses it, but on descending to the 
crypt below, where her remains rest in a plain leaden 
Queen Isabella Philip the Joanna, 
of Castile. Handsome. 
coffin, the regret passes and we know that Isabella is 
happy in her long sleep, for her beloved lie by her side 
and the “Eternal Spirit of Peace broodeth over all.” 
TOMBS OP FERDINAND AND ISABELLA AT GRANADA. 
Ferdinand 
Libocedrus decurrens-Incense Cedar. 
By Joseph Meehan. 
It is a source of disappointment to all lovers of evcr- 
LIBOCEDRUS DECURRENS ON AGRICULTURAL 
GROUNDS, WASHINGTON, D. C. 
green trees that so many of the lovely ones of the 
Pacific states are unfitted for use in the Northern 
states. Many are clearly not sufficiently hardy, others 
seem to long for a different climate in summer, and it 
ends with the narrowing down to a few sorts, those 
quite at home with us. An illustration of one of them 
is given here, the Libocedrus decurrens, a native of 
the Sierra Nevada mountains of California. It is 
quite hardy in Pennsylvania ; I have never known of 
its being injured, and there are some quite large trees 
of it in cultivation. The one in the illustration is 
growing on the grounds of the Agricultural Depart- 
ment, Washington, quite near the main building, and, 
in size, it well represents another in the U. S. Botanic 
Garden, Washington. There are two or three as tall 
at Mt. Vernon, on the Potomac, but they are too much 
crowded for their good. 
The one before us is in good condition, and will 
suggest to many the shape of the American arbor- 
vitie. The Libocedrus were classed as arbor-vitae at one 
time, and then our species was called Thuja gigantea, 
as it is yet in some parts of Europe, but it is now 
settled that Libocedrus is distinct from Thuja. There 
are a few other species besides ours, but ours is the 
only one hardy in the Northern states. 
The two evergreens, one on each side of the Liboce- 
