PARK AND CEMETERY 
peated pruning and is always sheared into formal 
shape, usually low and broad except at corners and at 
gateways. At the former it usually sweeps upward in 
graceful, hollow curves to nearly the height of the 
fence, and at the gates it is quite common to see it 
cut in the form of an open arch overtopping the gate 
itself, and so thick that one enters through a shallow 
green tunnel, — if one is so happy as to be welcomed 
as a guest in those dream-like homes down toward 
the gulf that warms so much of the world. 
There has long been an efficient improvement asso- 
ciation at Thomasville, Ga., — one remembers that eas- 
ily because they have planted sweet violets in such 
numbers on the grounds of the courthouse that chil- 
dren are allowed to gather the blooms ; the Mobile 
people have accomplished wonders in Civics by im- 
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Wadhams are respectively first and second vice presi- 
dents. The membership, it is said, is to include every 
live man and woman in the place. The rules adopted 
are spoken of as being “along the lines of the north- 
ern and western societies that have done so much to 
build up the towns of those live sections.” (Thanks, 
Sewanee, the workers in those parts rise up en masse 
in acknowledgment of that kindly compliment.) 
There is an active and enthusiastic executive commit- 
tee which proposes to show next summer’s visitors to 
this mountain resott what man can do in adding to the 
beauty of a place which nature has endowed with 
beauty of the first order. 
The dues of this organization are on a somewhat 
different plan from any that we are familiar with. A 
life membership costs $25.00; annual dues are $10.00 
OARDEN ON PYRTANIA ST., NEW OREEANS, 
showing delightful effect of the practice, general in that cit3% of lining 
solid division fences with vines. 
provement methods, and only last spring the women 
of New Orleans organized a branch of the Women’s 
Auxiliary, A. P. and O. A. A., and of course there are 
other improvement organizations, but they are not as 
' common as in the east and west. Then, too, it is the 
small towns that need them most, so it is a pleasure 
to note that the Sewanee (Tenn.) Village Improve- 
ment Society, formally organized in September, 1902, 
promises to furnish an object lesson in Civics in a new 
and interesting locality, being one of the few points 
of contact between town life and the “mountain peo- 
ple.” 
The “University domain” at Sewanee covers 10,000 
acres of land, and includes the village of that name 
as well as the University of the South, with its im- 
posing stone buildings. The University is the main 
dependence of the village which has less than 1,000 
inhabitants. The President of this young organiza- 
tion is Vice Chancellor Wiggins, of the University, 
and the Rev. Arthur Romeyn Gray and Miss Lizzie 
GROUNDS, ON ST. CHARLES AVE., NEW ORLEANS, 
with clipped hedge and archway of Pittosporum. These two views illus- 
trate good garden designs of broad open lawns and massed borders in 
vogue in New Ooleans. 
a year for three years, or $5.00 annually for seven 
successive years of membership. It is good to record 
the receipt of a donation of $1,000 at the first meet- 
ing of the society. 
A local chronicler of this southern enterprise drops 
into wintry northern metaphor by saying that since 
the progenitors of the movement “set the ball rolling 
it has grown like one of snow, but its only melting 
will be into action.” The Sewanee society is being 
favorably commented on by the press of two adjoin- 
ing states, Georgia and Alabama, and we are happy 
to add our mite of hearty, fraternal applause, and are 
certain that our readers will join us in three cheers 
and a tiger for Sewanee and her charming mountain 
home. * * * 
The fall report of the village committee of the Bar 
Harbor, Maine, Improvement Society should be help- 
ful to every organization of the same character, espe- 
cially in small places or in definite districts of larger 
towns. In early spring the “graveyard” was put in 
