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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
Illinois are more beautiful than the famous 
Japanese cherry blossoms. A cemetery would 
be a fitting place for great masses of crab- 
apples, to admire which our own people 
would make pilgrimages. Occasionally there 
■will come a day in spring when on visiting 
plum or apple blossoms one may be for- 
tunate enough to see in the midst of the 
bloom a scarlet tanager or a Baltimore 
■oriole and he will feel that this day has 
not been lived in vain. 
The glories of spring are too numerous 
to be outlined in an article which is nec- 
essarily brief. All that one can do is to 
hint at the beauty of nature, which is so 
appropriate in a cemetery. Here one might 
go not only to enjoy nature, but also for a 
little rest and seclusion which all must 
crave at times. 
Graceland, once far out beyond the out- 
skirts of Chicago, is now entirely surroun- 
ed by the city. It will remain for an in- 
definite period an oasis in a desert of 
brick and stone and pavements. As such 
an oasis, an endowed retreat for people, 
for birds, for native trees, bushes and 
wild flowers it will serve in the future its 
most useful purpose. 
for the record, and is reproduced here. 
The other side is ruled in small squares 
for the lot diagram. Mr. Shouse believes 
a small sheet is preferable, so that if a 
mistake should be made in the drawing a 
new sheet can readily be inserted'. In com- 
piling this record many interments were 
located which had no headstones, by put- 
ting a field man on the grounds with maps 
and measuring lines, locating the graves 
by measuring from lot lines. This was an 
enormous task, measuring up about ten 
thousand interments. Thus far the record 
has been found very helpful in locating 
new interments. 
COMPILING A FIFTY-YEAR INTERMENT RECORD. 
T. F. Shouse, superintendent of Spring- 
hill Cemetery, Danville, 111., recently com- 
pleted a gigantic task, that of building a 
diagram record showing with drawings the 
exact location to feet and inches of the 
interments on every lot. The cemetery 
management has felt the need for some 
time of such a record, but to go back for 
fifty years to work up such a record was a 
big proposition to undertake. Mr. Shouse 
has been working on this for nearly two 
years, and now has it completed, with 
some slight changes yet to be made, and 
this work includes the record of about ten 
thousand interments. The record is in the 
form of five small volumes of loose-leaf 
sheets, 5x9^4 inches in size. One side is 
Lot Block Section Square Feet 
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Crmre 
Date of Burial 
Retord of Interred 
Head 
From Line 
Side From Line 
Length 
Width 
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PAGE OF RECORD IN DIAGRAM RECORD BOOK. 
SPRING ATTENTION TO TREES AND SHRUBS 
(From Bulletin of Missouri Botanical Garden.) 
All pruning of trees and shrubbery should 
certainly be done before the starting of the 
buds in the spring. Trees should be pruned 
of all dead limbs and water sprouts, or 
suckers. Dead limbs are readily distin- 
guished from living ones by the absence in 
the former of a green layer directly under- 
neath the outermost layer of bark, a con- 
dition which, at least in young shoots, can 
readily be ascertained by the use of the 
thumbnail. Water sprouts, or suckers, are 
the small shoots almost invariably pro- 
duced on the larger limbs of trees and 
frequently also on the trunk near the point 
at which the latter emerges from the soil. 
All of these should be removed. Aside 
from these general suggestions, it is al- 
most impossible to give directions which 
will enable one unfamiliar with the general 
subject of pruning to properly prune a tree. 
Where trees have been properly cared for 
in the past, however, it is very seldom nec- 
essary to' remove limbs over two and one- 
half to three inches in diameter ; more 
severe pruning should never be attempted 
by an amateur. It is true that it has fre- 
quently been done in St. Louis by men 
who claimed to be experts, but the hideous 
results of their work are apparent in many 
private places all over the city. If there is 
any doubt in regard to the pruning of large 
trees, it is desirable to call in a known ex- 
pert for advice. 
Shrubs, while just as amenable to good 
and proper care, suffer less from neglect 
than do trees. A general rule applicable 
to the pruning of shrubs is that early- 
flowering shrubs are preferably pruned 
after blooming, and late-flowering ones in 
winter or early spring. Early-blooming 
sbrubs usually produce their flowers on 
wood developed the previous season, while 
the later-flowering ones produce them on 
new wood. The golden bell, or Forsvthia, 
for instance, blooms in the very early 
spring on the woody growth made the pre- 
vious summer. If this were pruned away 
in the spring all the “flower wood’’ would 
be destroyed. On the other hand, hydran- 
geas bloom late in the season on the ends 
of shoots produced that year from buds on 
the old wood. It is usually customary to 
prune hvrangeas (in the spring) back to 
two or three buds, as the flower crop is 
thereby not endangered. If good results 
are to be obtained from the pruning of 
shrubs, therefore, the time and habit of 
their blooming must be carefully taken into 
account. 
Trees and shrubs are often affected with 
scale insects and other diseases. During 
the summer months it is almost impossible 
to kill the former without injuring the 
foliage ; in winter or early spring, there- 
fore, also this important work must be 
done. It is safe to say that in St. Louis 
no large group of woody plants is entirely 
free from destructive scale insects, and it 
is recommended that at least once each 
winter or early spring a competent gar- 
dener be called upon to thoroughly spray 
the trees and shrubs. If spraying is to be 
done on an extensive scale, a spray pump 
is necessary, but if only a few plants are to 
be treated, a pail and whiskbroom will suf- 
fice. Trees and shrubs may be sprayed in 
the early spring by using the well-known 
Bordeaux mixture, made as follows : 
A. Dissolve four pounds of copper sul- 
phate in four gallons of water. 
B. Dissolve four pounds of quick lime 
in four gallons of water. 
Place solution A in a barrel or spray 
tank having a capacity of fifty gallons and 
add thirty-eight gallons of water. Dilute 
solution B in four gallons of water and 
after thorough stirring add to the solution 
in the barrel. When mixed the solution is 
ready to apply. 
Solutions A and B may be made up in 
