PARK AND CE-ME-TERY 
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The three species of Cedrus — Libani, Deodara and 
Atlantica — are hardy at Philadelphia and doubtless 
are in many places where never tried. The foliage 
of Codara is sometimes hurt, but never the wood. 
Its silvery foliage, as well as that of Atlantica, make 
them prominent features in planting. 
Plant Magnolia grandiflora where it will be pro- 
tected from high winds in winter and where but the 
early morning sun catches it, likewise in winter, and 
the ideal place for it will have been selected. Every 
winter teaches this lesson. 
Plants in store-houses or cellars can often be giveri 
air to advantage in advance of their being~ brought 
out of their winter quarters. It hardens them some- 
what, so that the injury sudden exposure often brings 
does not occur. 
Bambusa Metake makes an exceeding ornamental 
plant for park planting. It ciuickly forms a good-sized 
clump, and being evergreen is very valuable. Vis- 
itors to Arlington Cemetery, Virginia, will remembei 
the noble looking clump near the Lee mansion. Bam- 
busa aurea and B. Argentea, as well as Metake, are 
from Japan. 
Preparations for grafting should be made at once, 
if not already done, by cutting cions of such sorts as 
will be required and placing them in soil or sand in a 
cool place. Grafting is to be done just as the buds 
on the trees are visibly swelling. Teas’ Weeping mul- 
berry, Kilmarnoch willow, weeping and other elms, 
ash, and flowering apples, cherries, etc., are a Few to 
be thought of. 
Cuttings of shrubs made through the wintei 
should be set out in rows at the earliest opportunity. 
If not made before, many of them can be made yet 
with fair prospects of growing. Such sorts as golden 
bell and yellow jasmine root at almost any time. 
Where lawns are bare, from the ravages of fall 
grass or other causes, sow grass and white clover 
seed as early as possible in spring. If got in very 
early it covers itself almost by the help of rains and 
in other ways, but if the soil will permit of a little 
raking over, so much the better. 
Such early budding shrubs as Pyrus Japonica, 
Japanese Snowball, Spirda Thunbergii, Tartarian 
honeysuckle and similar sorts should be tire first 
planted. Others, such as white fringe, hydrangea, 
sweet shrub, smoke bush, and even weigelas, push 
late, serving the purpose of late planters. 
When planting rhododendrons, if a few of the 
wild maximum can be introduced it will be well, as, 
though not as pretty as many others, its flowers come 
later, after the others are over. 
Quercus fastigiata, Salisburia, Lombardy Poplar, 
Populus Van Geerti, Taxodium, destichum and 
Cupressus thyroides are all tall, tapering trees, well 
suited to many situations and quite out of place in 
others. They are often fittingly placed near tall build- 
ings. Just where to place a tree and the proper kind, 
commands the attention of the skilled planter. 
The Passiflora incarnata, known as the hardy pas- 
sion vine, set out early in spring, in good soil, makes 
a strong growth and flowers profusely in the autumn. 
But it is not really hardy, even in Delaware, but must 
have a covering of forest leaves over its roots for the 
winter. 
South of New York the hardy' Orange, Citrus tri- 
foliata, is quite hardyq and is being used for defensive 
hedging, for which purpose it is unequalled. It is 
extremely stiff, has fierce spines, stands trimming 
well, and soon makes an impenetrable thicket. 
As an ornamental shrub it ranks high on account 
of its white flowers and its oranges. 
Joseph IMeehan. 
THE INFLUENCE OF PUBLIC PARKS ON THE 
MORALITY OF THE COMMUNITY.* 
“We cannot transfer the grandeur of the forest 
into the heart of the city, but we can plant much ot 
the beauty and moral health of the woods into the 
parks of a city.” 
“In a certain sense the landscape gardener has 
the advantage of all his other brother artists. He 
works with realities, they only with likenesses and 
imitations. Their work is more difficult, and, there- 
fore, perhaps a higher art ; his is more readily 
comprehended by the common mind. You must 
have something of an artist’s soul get into the 
soul of a masterpiece on canvas or in stone. But 
you need only the kinship with nature to which, 
thank God, all are heirs, to be touched and blessed 
by the gardener’s work. 
“The painters and sculptors belong to the aris- 
tocracy of artists — the gardener to the great democ- 
racy. Only a few can own the ‘masters of art.‘ 
Everybody can find some property right in the gar- 
dener. Michael Angelo, Rubens and Millais reveal 
tlie divine in nature, but they put it into the cathedral 
and gallery, and few there be that can go in thereat. 
But the gardener appeals to the throng on its hustle 
to business ; he rests the crowd daily and calls to the 
“whosoever will” to be blessed and cheered and re- 
generated.” 
“You must have money and time to buy the 
product of the ‘masters in art’; you only need feet 
and a hungry soul to get the benefits of the gardener. 
We will try to culture ourselves to the masters in 
the studio, but we will rest ourselves and renew our- 
selves and come into quick and easy communion with 
nature in her visible forms, in all the order and har- 
mony, and beauty of the park that is common to all.” 
“Goodness is the order of right; it is the bar- 
♦Extracts from a paper read at the Chicag-o Convention of the Ameri- 
can Park and Outdoor Association, June, 1900, by Rev. J. A. Rondthaler 
Chicag'o. 
