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PARK AND CEMETERY 
drus, are Japanese cedars, as they are called Retinis- 
pora plumosa, and on the right, in the distance, are to 
be seen the Yellow locust, Robinia pseud-acacia. 
The public grounds of Washington contain many in- 
teresting trees, many of the larger ones representing 
the plantings of the late William Saunders, who for 
many years was in charge of the experimental grounds 
there. 
The true Thuja gigantea as we know it is not thor- 
oughly hardy even in mild Philadelphia, which is a 
pity, for it is an exceedingly desirable kind. Its foli- 
age is a bright green, the opposite of the Eastern one, 
which, valuable as it is, cannot claim vivid green foli- 
age. 
Thujopsis borealis, from the Pacific states also, is 
thoroughly at home here, and is a welcome evergreen 
of much the style of growth of the arbor-vitae, but more 
bushy. 
Cannas and Pennisetum at Lincoln ParK, Chicago 
The use of pennisetum as a border for beds of 
cannas was seen to good advantage in Lincoln Park, 
Chicago, during the past season. The arrangement 
is Secretary Warder’s, to whose courtesy we are in- 
debted for the photographs from which our illustra- 
tions were made. The massed foliage and flowers of 
the cannas formed an effective background for the 
feathery-like spikes of the pennisetums . The illustra- 
tions show the distinctive characteristics of the va- 
rieties of the latter. 
CANNA SIR D'ANTOINE CROZY, WITH PENNISETUM LONGISTYLUM AS BORDER. 
