447 
PARK AND CEMETERY 
the shoots are blood red. Grown in bush shape it is 
most attractive all winter. The yellow twigged vari- 
ety, though a good grower, is hardly as strong a one 
as the red. 
]\lany of the Japanese crysanthemums winter safely 
out doors, even in cold climates, when ensconced under 
a lot of forest leaves. In Pennsylvania some of the 
hardier sorts are wintered without any covering at all, 
just as pompones are. 
What a lot of rubbish many of the new lilacs are. 
Nurserymen import them time and again to find that 
rarely is one better than what they have. The old pur- 
ple, old white, with rubra insignis, L. spath and a few 
of the new doubles, with the Persian, make an assort- 
ment all sufficient. 
Many of our public parks have of late taken to the 
planting of low branched deciduons trees instead of 
the trimmed up kind which were once so common. 
Beautiful oaks, maples and other trees, clothed to the 
gronnd with branches, are now to be seen. 
When the trees are bare of leaves the opportunity is 
afforded of seeing where a little pruning will help. 
A little cut away every year on rank growth such as 
the poplar and silver maple, will give handsome speci- 
mens. Let them go for a few years, and trouble be- 
gins. 
The Japanese double ffowered cherry, Cerasus Sie- 
boldi, besides having the handsome double light pink 
flowers in spring, has lovely autumn foliage, its leaves 
changing from yellow to bronze. In this respect it’s the 
counterpart of the double forms of the European type, 
which keep their green leaves unchanged to the last. 
It is a good thing to place boards on the north side 
of rhododendron beds, as gardeners sometimes do, to 
l^reak the wind in winter, but as good or better work 
would be to erect a structure on the southern side, to 
keep the plants from the sun. Both wind and sun are 
injurious, the latter, perha])S, more so than the first. 
Hydrangea (piercifolia, a native of the Southwest 
and South, is much valued for its handsome bronze 
folige in autumn. It holds its leaves quite late, until 
it freezes, making a handsome display when very 
many other shrubs are bereft of leaves. 
Among Andromedas of our own country, Mariana, 
is ahead of all in general usefulness. In spring, and 
often in autumn, it displays its beautiful large white 
flowers, and in autumn its foliage changes from bright 
green to a rich crimson. And it transplants with but 
few failures. 
A correspondent has sent me a sprig of Kudzu vine 
which has been attacked with the scale from a fern 
growing near it. There is nothing to do but wash it fre- 
quently with kerosene emulsion or whale oil soap. Why 
not cut the vine down to near the ground, be sure the 
scale is cleaned from the small portion left, and then 
let it grow afresh. It would be an easy way of de- 
stroying the scale. 
What a beautiful soft red color the two shrubs, Itea 
Virginica and Vaccinum corymbosum assume when 
fall comes ! Plant them freely, singly or in clumps, 
for besides the fall effect, their white flowers in the 
spring are beautiful. 
The sour gum, Nyssa multiflora, is famed for the 
brilliant coloring of its foliage in autumn. Young, 
vigorous trees always display more color than old 
ones. Mr. Ravenel, of Georgia, tells me that the N. 
capitata and N. uniflora, two southern species, color 
hardly at all, another one, N. aquatica, does to some ex- 
tent. He thinks, on the whole, there is less color in a 
southern forest than in a northern one. The species 
he mentions are not hardy here ; seedlings from Geor- 
gia seeds invariably get winter killed their first season. 
It is always seasonable in December to suggest the 
covering of tender roses for winter. We hardly need 
it here, our everbloomers rarely getting killed to the 
ground. When killing down mav be looked for there 
is nothing better than to throw a spadefull or two of 
soil around each plant, enough that about six inches 
of the plant is covered. This can be removed in the 
spring, and the wood it has covered will be found to be 
sound. These six inches of live wood will make strong 
growth and give lots of flowers. Joseph Meehan. 
Cemetery Eeg^al Decisions. 
Entering into possession of a portion of a cemetery lot 
which is inclosed by a fence, by one claiming to be the owner 
of such portion, and erecting a substantial iron fence, so as 
to divide the part so claimed from the remaining part of the 
lot, the supreme court of Georgia holds, in the case of Rou- 
millot against Gardner, 38 Southeastern Reporter, 362, is, as 
to this particular character of property, an act showing ad- 
verse possession, of a public nature, totally irreconcilable with 
co-tenancy, and amounts to an actual ouster of others claim- 
ing to be tenants in common with the possessor. The erection 
and maintenance of such a fence in a cemetery lot, it says, 
cannot make any other impression upon the passer-by than 
that the lot is owned by two persons or sets of persons, and 
that the fence marks the dividing line. But the burial of his 
child in the portion of the lot claimed by such party, the 
court holds, would not amount to an actual ouster, for the rea- 
son that such an act is not at all inconsistent with co-tenancy 
in a cemetery lot. Nor does the court consider that the plac- 
ing of a stone at the gate of the section, with the name of 
such party thereon, would amount to an actual ouster, it ap- 
pearing that the stone was placed at the gate to the section, 
and was not placed in any such peculiar position as to indi- 
cate a claim to ownership to any designated portion of the 
section. 
In the case of the state against Peter Hopf, at Jasper, Ind., 
the court recently imposed a fine of $500 against the defendant 
for removing a tombstone from the grave of Reuben Mathes, 
in a little family burying ground 60 x 84 feet on a farm owned 
by Mr. Hopf. The defendant piled the tombstones in a fence 
corner, plowed up the burial plot and sowed it in wheat. 
