PARK AND CEMETERY. 
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not a few residents of neighboring towns 
who have bought family plots, and in sev- 
eral instances have erected costly monu- 
ments. 
The care and general improvements of 
the grounds are under the personal super- 
vision of William G. LaPlace, the superin- 
tendent. The president of the association 
is Joseph B. Banning. 
Blue Hill Cemetery, South Braintree, 
Mass., has some unique features, that are 
impressed first upon the visitor by the 
striking boulder entrance and fountain and 
the magnificent old oak that stands nearby. 
The boulder fountain is built of field and 
red stone and the stonework encloses a 
pansy bed at the rear. It cost about $80. 
The grounds are piped and supplied with 
water from the cemetery’s own pumping- 
system, which cost about $300. The 
grounds were recently resurveyed, the old 
plans discarded and new ones issued. A 
new section of about one acre has been 
developed and pipes laid in some drives to 
drain low. places. 
Much lawn work has been done and a 
large mound built near the entrance, with 
a rockery and a sprayer. The filling of the 
hole where' the mound now is and building 
of the mound required nearly 2,000 loads 
of material. 
A perpetual care fund has been estab- 
lished and at present about twenty-three 
lots are in such care, the amount at interest 
being about $3,000. The soil is very good, 
being loam, gravel and sand and never any 
rocks. The new section under development 
has many evergreen trees of natural 
growth. 
The cemetery contains twenty acres, of 
which eight are in use. A. A. Drollett is 
president and superintendent. 
BALBOA PARK AND SAN DIEGO EXPOSITION 
PUERTE CABRILLO; CONCRETE BRIDGE 1,000 FEET LONG, BOTANICAL BUILDING, SAN DIEGO EXPOSITION. 
SAN DIEGO EXPOSITION. 
San Diego, Cal., is unique in many re- 
spects, but in none more so than in her 
parks. Forty years ago, just one hundred 
years after the first mission was founded 
on this coast, the trustees of the rambling 
village set apart 1,400 acres of pueblo land 
for park purposes, all of which has been 
faithfully held intact and is now entirely 
surrounded by the city. In 1902 Samuel 
Parsons, Jr., of New York, prepared a 
plan for the improvement of ten acres of 
land at the personal solicitation of George 
W. Marston, a leading citizen, who was 
also instrumental in interesting Mrs. M. B. 
Coulston, formerly one of the editors of 
Garden and Forest, who gave much valua- 
ble advice. More work was done in 1912 
than ever before, when active preparations 
began for the Panama-California Exposi- 
tion and a million-dollar bond issue aug- 
mented the park funds. 
According to scientists, the mesas and 
canyons hereabouts are the result of ero- 
sion caused by the receding waters of the 
Pacific, which covered the land not very 
many years ago. Five large canyons, or 
aroryas, extend the entire length of the 
park and numerous smaller ones intersect, 
giving a diversified contour with an ap- 
proximate altitude of 3C0 feet above the 
bay and ocean at the city front. Nature 
has had a struggle to cover these stony 
mesas and slopes with a scrubby growth 
of sagebrush, mesquite, cactus, etc. Hard- 
pan and unbaked adobe abound. Drilling 
and dynamiting with a liberal addition of 
fresh soil is necessary for every tree and 
shrub planted and all borders after being 
dynamited are plowed deep with six-mule 
plows. It is doubtful whether there is an- 
other park that has been shot so full of 
holes or where so much artificial irriga- 
tion has been necessary. Every tree has 
cost at least a dollar to plant and many 
of them a great deal more. Thousands of 
acacias, eucalyptus, cypress, cedars, pines, 
peppers, etc., have been planted in groves 
on the borders of the park and along the 
boulevards through the canyons. 
Several hundred acres of the park, most- 
ly unimproved, were set apart for the ex- 
position, and here in less than three years 
has been wrought a transformation little 
less than marvelous and utterly impossible 
in other than a frostless clime. In carrying 
out the ground plans of Director of Works 
Frank P. Allen most of the planting was 
done under the direction of Superintendent 
of Parks John G. Morley, who kept the 
idea of permanency well in mind. The 
well-known deciduous trees of the East are 
conspicuous by their absence, still there is 
such an abundance of the semi-tropical and 
all of it so admirably adapted to the Span- 
ish colonial and mission architecture of 
the buildings that a delightful atmosphere 
is created wherein lies the charm of this 
“Exposition Beautiful.” Streets, bridges, 
gardens, pools, etc., are known by their 
Spanish names. On the Plaza de Panama 
hundreds of gentle pigeons recall the Plaza 
of St. Marks, balconies draped with gayly 
colored portieres and other features 
heighten the Old World touch. This is not 
a world’s fair nor in any way intended as 
a competitor of the magnificent Panama- 
Pacific International Exposition at San 
Francisco, neither is its object purely local; 
the ethnology and archaeology of the great 
Southwest with its varied and really won- 
derful possibilities are revealed here as was 
never done before. The “back to the land’’ 
movement is stimulated in a practical man- 
ner. In addition to showing the finished 
product of orchard and farm, moving pic- 
tures and competent lecturers make plain 
every process through which the crop must 
go from seed time to harvest and final 
shipment. A model ranch with citrus and 
deciduous orchards in blossom and fruit, 
demonstrations of intensive farming, and a 
cozy bungalow in a mass of flowers, is an 
attractive feature of the exhibit made by 
the seven southern California counties. 
Captain J. Edward Gray, well known 
