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PARK AND CEMETERY 
borea” and others are eaten in northern India. E. 
multiflora often has good fruit, and the form called 
longipes by Gray has been recommended for the des- 
sert. Children are fond of it, and selection might 
improve it. Varieties of superior character must be 
perpetuated by cuttings, layers, or grafts. They will 
not reproduce themselves exactly from seed. The 
multifloras grow from 5 to 10 feet high and are from 
China and Japan. 
At southern points many of the evergreen kinds 
may be grown. Among them are E. macrophylla. 
before mentioned ; E. pungens Simonii, and several 
others of the pungens forms, both plain and varie- 
gated. These are admirable low shrubs. 
Hippophac rhamnoides is the “sea buckthorn,” a 
native of England and other European countries. It 
has a narrow-leaved and also an Asiatic form. I find 
some authorities attribute it to America, but they 
probably confound it with the next. 
Shcphcrdia has 2, maybe 3 species, natives of 
North America. S. argentea is often confused with 
other plants. It is the “Buffalo, berry.” It is thorny, 
its leaves are opposite, and silvery on both sides ; it is a 
shrub of various heights from 4 to 16 feet, and has 
scarlet tart fruit. S. Canadensis has leaves opposite, 
green above and downy beneath, is lower in full 
growth, and has orange fruit. Both are hardy far 
north. 
James MacPherson. 
KEEPING WEEDS FROM THE LAWN, 
In the moral life the inculcation and practice of 
good habits is the best way to overcome and root out 
the bad, so on the lawn the best way to fight the 
weeds is to keep the ground well occupied with what 
you wish to grow, says Prof. W. R. Lazenby in 
“Proceedings of the Columbus Horticultural So- 
ciety.” White clover should never be omitted from 
any mixture of lawn grass seed. It never seriously 
interferes with the true grasses and it does fill up 
unoccupied spaces and improves the soil by supply- 
ing nitrogen and in many cases by bettering the 
mechanical condition. 
ParK Notes 
Mayor J. S. McFerren, Hoopeston, 111 ., has purchased the 
Fair Grounds of the Hoopeston District Agricultural Society 
and presented them to the city for a public park. The tract 
consists of 30 acres of land, well located, and set with trees, 
and was purchased for $6,000. It will be named McFerren 
Park. * * * Mr. A. W. Pettibone, La Crosse, Wis., has 
presented to that city an island to be used for park purposes, 
and is making extensive improvements on it. * * * Mr. 
Geo. F. McCulloch, Muncie, Ind., has donated 83 acres of 
land to that city for a park. The council committee is pre- 
paring plans for its improvement. * * * Xhe heirs of the 
Billings estate, Duluth, Minn., will deed to the city 40 acres 
of land, valued at $40,000, situated on St. Louis bay, to be 
used as a public park. 
* * * 
The Park Commissioners of Milwaukee, Wis., are prom- 
ised $50,000 extra for improvements next year, and are mak- 
ing plans to spend it. In Lake Park they propose to erect 
a large pavilion, overlooking the lake, at a cost of $25,000. 
In Washington Park, formerly West Park, an observatory 
200 feet high will be built. It will be made of iron frame- 
work with a spiral stairway. Extensions to the conservatory 
in Mitchell Park will be made. Early next spring the addi- 
tion to this park will be improved according to designs laid 
out by Warren H. Manning, of Boston. Other suggestions 
which the board are considering are: the building of open 
air cages for the exhibition of animals native to the state, 
and the construction of an electric fountain at a cost of 
about $20,000. The lake shore boulevard will probably be 
begun in spite of the fact that Gov. La Follette has declared 
the bill illegal in which the Legislature extended the time 
for commencing the work. 
* * * 
The Zoar Commune Park and Garden, Tuscarawas coun- 
ty, Ohio, was laid out by a colony of German immigrants 
from Wurtemburg about 1815. They purchased 8,000 acres 
of land, and formed a commune, holding all their property 
in common, and forming what is now the village of Zoar. 
It was designed in quaint German style, a large, palace-like 
house forming one end of the park. From this house as the 
head, or nucleus, the grounds spread out to include a tract 
of about two acres. Walks and paths were laid out through 
it. In the center is a large cedar tree with a row of small 
ones planted in a circle around it, and rising to meet the 
overhanging branches of the larger one, form an inclosure, 
in which is placed a circular row of benches. The flower 
beds are laid out in many curious shapes, and at the extreme 
corners of the park are triangular beds of tomatoes, cab- 
bages, strawberries, etc. Plots of green, well-kept turf dot 
the park, and add to the artistic effect of the grounds, which 
are uniformily in good condition. The settlement comprises 
300 people, and is 20 miles south of Canton, O. 
* * * 
The Legislature of Indiana has recently enacted a law 
allowing the Indianapolis Park Board to authorize and en- 
force rules regarding the planting, removal and trimming 
of trees on streets and other public places. As a result of 
this power, the Park Board has passed a set of rules, some 
of the provisions of which are as follows : No person can 
trim, remove or plant a tree without the permission of the 
city forester, and any one who desires trees or shrubs planted 
in or removed from certain localities must deposit money 
with the clerk of the Park Commissioners to cover the cost. 
In regard to the kind of trees and the manner of planting 
the rules specify as follows: “Trees planted in the streets 
of the city of Indianapolis shall not be less than twenty-five 
feet apart, irrespective of the size of the lot, and as much 
farther apart as may be directed by the city forester, for 
different varieties of trees, and all trees planted must be of 
a stock satisfactory to the city forester, healthy and free 
from scale.” The Board will employ an assistant city forester 
to insure the enforcement of these rules, but will be seriously 
handicapped in the work of park improvement this year from 
the fact that $26,659.65 had to be taken from the regular 
park appropriations for the purpose of purchasing new land 
for Riverside Park, since the comptroller refused to recom- 
mend an extra appropriation. 
