PARK AND CEMETERY. 
party, terrified, attempted to climb the 
walls, but were never heard from again. 
The Indian legend of the Grand Canyon 
is picturesque. There was a great chief 
who mourned the death of his wife, and 
would not be comforted. To him came 
Ta-vwoats, one of the Indian gods, and 
told him that his wife was in a happier 
land to which he would take him that he 
might see for himself, if. upon his return, 
he would cease to mourn. The chief 
promised. Then Ta-vwoats made a trail 
through the mountains that guarded that 
beautiful land. 
This trail was the canyon gorge of the 
Colorado. Through it Ta-vwoats led the 
chief : and when they had returned, the 
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god exacted from the chief a promise that 
he would tell no one of its joys lest, 
through discontent with the circumstances 
of this world, others should desire to go 
there. Then Ta-vwoats rolled a river into 
the gorge, a mad, raging stream, that 
should engulf any that might attempt to 
enter thereby. This river was the Colo- 
rado. 
REMODELING AN OLD HOME GROUNDS 
THE FRONT LAAVN; BEFORE. THE FRONT LAWN: AFTER PLANTING. 
The problem presented to the land- 
scape architect in remodeling the old 
place illustrated was that of renovating 
and replanting an old place originally 
laid out by other hands a generation or 
so ago and since allowed to go to pieces; 
and of giving it a new lease on life 
without, however, fundamentally alter- 
ing the general design. 
The estate is practically flat, of about 
an acre in extent, and there remained 
of the original w'ork, a thick, overgrown 
plantation of rhododendrons, mountain 
laurel and andromeda bordering the side- 
walk to the left of the entrance path, 
together with a few good trees along 
one boundary, and a magnificent speci- 
men of European beech on the rear lawn. 
After the old trees and shrubs had been 
thoroughly gone over, pruned, and trans- 
planted (where necessary), the shrub- 
bery beds were carefully outlined, and 
deeply spaded over; and they, together 
with the lawns, were enriched with one 
ton of concentrated fertilizer consisting 
of l,OfiO pounds of ground bone, 500 
pounds of sheep manure, and 500 pounds 
of unleached hardwood ashes. 
With the existing trees as a nucleus 
for the planting, new shrubbery borders 
were staked out and prepared around 
the boundaries of the place with the ob- 
ject of “planting out” what was objec- 
tionable beyond the confines of the lot 
and of affording an interesting frame to 
the home picture. At the same time, 
beds of low shrubs were outlined at the 
base of the house walls to unite them 
with the greensward. In addition to 
these main features of planting, a flower 
walk was arranged along one side of the 
rear lawn. 
The photographs speak for themselves, 
and indicate what can be accomplished 
in two years’ time with a limited appro- 
TIIE FI.OU'ER WALK, .\FTER. 
priation when the plan is worked out 
under careful supervision. 
THE FLOWER WALK, BEFORE. 
S. P. Negus, of Boston, was the land- 
scape architect in charge of the work. 
BARRE PREPARES FOR A. A. C. S. 
CONVENTION. 
The Board of Trade and semi-civic or- 
ganizations of Barrc, Vt., arc taking time 
b\' the forelock in preparing for the recep- 
tion of the members of the .\,s.sociation of 
American Cemetery Superintendents who 
arc to assemble in the home of Barre 
granite next summer for their national 
convention. ■ The Board of 'Prade, the 
quarriers’ association, the merchants’ and 
the granite, manufacturers’ associations 
were represented at a meeting in Manu- 
facturers' llall recently, when committees 
were apiiointed to carry on the iiri'liminary 
