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DESIGN FOR IRVING PARK, YONKERS, N. Y. 
This design is the result of an attempt to get the 
greatest number of uses, scenic and physical, out of a 
very limited piece of ground. The site is a small col- 
lection of city lots, steep in grade, desolate and untidy 
in aspect, the despair of the Park Commissioners, but 
with a fine view of the River Hudson and the opposite 
Palisades. The ground was too steep for the uses of a 
small park, which requires spaces level, or approxi- 
mately so; it is therefore to be separated into two lev- 
els, one eight feet above the other, by a retaining wall 
of the locally familiar random work in “niggerhead” 
stone, to be built of materials taken from an old wall 
DECORATIVE PLANTING CONTESTS IN 
CHICAGO. 
The praiseworthy act of the Chicago Tribune in of- 
fering prizes for the best kept gardens and window- 
boxes within the city limits has been very successful. 
Over 500 contestants submitted their names at the time 
set and but few withdrew before the final time for 
judging arrived. 
Notwithstanding the numerous disappointments 
that met the judges on their extended trip through 
far-spreading cosmopolitan Chicago — in which over 
800 miles were covered — there was many a pretty gar- 
den spot well worthy of such public spirited efforts. 
DBSIGN FOR IRVING PARK, YONKBRS, N. Y., BY H. A. CAPARN. 
in Washington Park in the same town. The shelter, or 
pergola will be a pleasant place to sit in and see the 
river, and the pond below with its lilies and gentle 
splash of water and its frame of lawn and bushes will 
be a soothing object to look down upon ; and the pond 
will be easily and economically supplied from the 
drinking fountain above. The pergola would be very 
effective extended along the whole retaining wall, but 
it is thought that the trees will ultimately become 
more valuable objects. Plenty of space is devoted to 
macadam in paths and plaza, so that the lawn and 
shrubberies may tempt intrusion and attrition as little 
as possible. The construction work will be carried on 
as far this year as the funds available permit. 
H. A. Caparn. 
Many gardens showed a deplorable lack of neatness, 
others again had planted flowers of all varieties to- 
gether in one great happy family only leaving a narrow 
path to give access to the house and alley, and again 
those showing their fondness for trees had planted 
every available space with giants of the forest, where 
perhaps not sufficient room existed for one well-grown 
Elm. 
The tendency to overcrowding was prevalent in the 
majority of gardens visited and how fascinating a sea 
of flowers looked from the rear porch or kitchen win- 
dow! The real beauty and usefulness of the usual 
25x50 ft. space, or less, was lost. Different were the 
porch or veranda decorations. That the majority of 
amateurs were here masters was plainly seen, and 
