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the tropics, it is different ; there they are far more 
numerous, have lots of arborescent forms, and would 
often take the place of conifers — either in a separate 
division or with the Cycads as a boundary belt. 
As for the group under consideration, a clever gar- 
dener ( I don’t mean an architect, or a walking delegate, 
mind), would find no difficulty in arranging a series 
of ponds and bogs to accommodate a selection (among 
the Cupresseae, for instance), not in obtrusive positions, 
but so arranged that the plants could be seen as an en- 
tity when best worth seeing. 
Alisma is a genus of io species in four sections. 
They are aquatic and marsh plants, distributed over 
Europe, temperate and tropical Asia, tropical Africa, 
North and South America, and Australia. The “greater 
water plaintain” is widely distributed and varies con- 
siderably in foliage. 
Elisina natans is monotypic and a pretty little float- 
ing aquatic, with white flowers. It is found in the 
lakes of North Wales and Cumberland, England. 
Saggitaria, “arrow head,” has 15 species, distributed 
over most temperate and tropical countries where water 
is a plenty. Some have good white flowers, varying 
to double, and often very different foliage. 
Butomus, “flowering rush,” is a handsome mono- 
typic flowering plant found in ditches and shallow 
ponds in many parts of Europe and Asia. It has 
six-parted pink flowers in umbels, varying to purplish 
or very rarely white, with numerous darker colored 
stamens and carpels. It seems scarcely known in 
America. The flower stem grows sometimes six or 
seven feet high, and the rush-like leaves a foot or two 
shorter. James MacPherson. 
(To be Continued.) 
New England Cemetery Association Meets 
The New England Cemetery Association met on Wednesday, 
November 9th, in the Copley Square Hotel, Boston. At 6:30 
President McCarthy invited the members to seats around 
tables, the decorations of which were branches of berried trees 
and shrubs, wild and cultivated, grown in the vicinity of Bos- 
ton. After a very enjoyable dinner, the Secretary read the 
minutes of the last meeting, which were approved without 
discussion. Two applications for membership in the Asso- 
ciation were offered, the candidates being Mr. R. G. Leighton, 
Superintendent of Rock Hill Cemetery, Foxboro, Mass., and 
Mr. S. Bolton, former gardener of Mount Auburn Cemetery, 
now of North Easton, Mass. 
Referred to Committee on Applications. 
The following motion was offered by J. C. Scorgie of Mount 
Auburn, seconded by H. Wilson Ross, — that the Executive 
Committee be requested to prepare an amendment to Con- 
stitution, providing for at least five meetings a year, one to 
be a closed meeting. Motion referred to committee for action 
and report. 
The Association guest of the evening, Mr. John W. Duncan, 
was introduced to the members by the President, and took as 
his topic, “A Plea for the Berried Shrubs.” The manner in 
which he dealt with the subject was highly entertaining, 
every point being intelligently conveyed, and instructive to all 
present. The paper is printed herewith. 
Discussion upon the several species and varieties took place 
with benefit to all concerned. On motion of Mr. C. W. Ross 
a vote of thanks was given to Mr. Duncan for the able edu- 
cational and agreeable manner in which he had entertained 
the members present. And it was further moved, on motion 
of Mr. J. H. Morton, seconded by Mr. C. A. Stiles, that Mr. 
Duncan be made an honorary member of the New England 
Cemetery Association as testimony of the members’ apprecia- 
tion for the great interest he has taken in its welfare. Mo- 
tion carried unanimously. Mr. Duncan gracefully expressed 
his thanks for the honor bestowed upon him. 
On motion of Mr. Morton, seconded by Mr. Stone, it was 
voted that the Secretary be directed to forward to Park and 
Cemetery a copy of the proceedings of the meeting. 
It was decided to call the next meeting for the second 
Monday in February next. The members, upon adjourning, 
expressed the feeling that this had been the most enjoyable, 
instructive and successful meeting thus far held by the asso- 
ciation. 
The following is a list of the officers, members and visitors 
present : President, T. McCarthy, Swan Point, Providence, 
R. I. ; Vice-president, Geo. W. Creesy, Harmony Grove, 
Salem, Mass. ; Secretary, Wm. Allen, Mount Auburn, Cam- 
bridge, Mass. Members : J. C. Scorgie, Mount Auburn, Cam- 
bridge, Mass. ; J. L. Attwood, Mount Auburn, Cambridge, 
Mass. ; R. A. Leavitt, Wyoming Cemetery, Melrose, Mass. ; 
J. H. Morton, Mount Hope, Boston, Mass. ; E. W. Mitchell, 
Oak Grove, Medford, Mass.; H. Wilson Ross, Newton Ceme- 
tery, Newton, Mass.; C. W. Ross, Newtonville, Mass.; F. M. 
Floyd, Evergreen, Portland, Me. ; C. W. Stiles, Forest Dale, 
Malden, Mass.; Wm. Stone, Pine Grove, Lynn, Mass.; G. F. 
Stanley, Beverly, Beverly, Mass. Visitors : John W. Dun- 
can, Boston Park Department, Boston, Mass. ; R. G. Leighton, 
Rock Hill, Foxboro, Mass.; Geo. Westland, Mount Auburn, 
Cambridge, Mass. 
A PLEA FOR THE BERRIED SHRUBS.* 
In the selection of a collection of shrubs it is generally the 
case that too much attention is given to the blossoming of 
varieties and consequently many species of indubitable worth 
are left out. There are many traits of shrubs to look to be- 
sides the flowers, but chiefly the harmony of foliage, the 
autumnal effects and, lastly, the beautiful effects from the 
many colors of fruit. It is these last that are perhaps the 
most interesting and it is of them that I wish to say a few 
words, for from midsummer on through the late autumn and 
bleakest days of winter many retain their gay colors to brighten 
our driveways and hedge rows. 
The bush honeysuckles are about the first to make a show- 
ing of fruits commencing with the early fruiting Lonicera 
Standishii and followed by such varieties as bella albida, bella 
Candida, tartarica in many forms, Ruprechtiana, the most 
shoWy of all and a fine semi-trailing variety is Lonicera Sulli- 
vantri. 
A comparatively unknown shrub and one whose beauty is 
its fruit, is Symplocos crataegoides. The color of the berries 
of this shrub is unequaled by any that I have seen. They 
are of a beautiful shade of ultra-marine blue. 
The common spice bush, Benzoin Benzoin, is a pretty shrub 
when in fruit, and although the berries drop early, they are 
*Read before the New England Cemetery Association by 
John W. Duncan, Asst. Supt. of Parks, Boston. 
