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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
higher each year. Ten years or so ago we 
had lots of “Stone Yards,” but very few 
of our modern and beautiful "Burial 
Parks,” for which we are indebted to the 
Association of American Cemetery Super- 
intendents. 
Sufficient income must be provided to re- 
place all trees and shrubbery, as the time 
will come when their life will have been 
spent, to take care of unforeseen contin- 
gencies, such as damage to trees and shrub- 
bery by lightning, tornado, flood or dis- 
ease, and also damage of a similar nature 
to the drives and roadways, buildings, etc. 
Unless more than simply a sufficient in- 
come to cover the ordinary annual require- 
ments is provided; a time is more than 
apt to come in the near future when some 
accident or misfortune will befall you and 
your income will be insufficient. A finan- 
cial or business depression may occur and 
your income will be cut off, for the present 
at least. Coming generations may demand 
more extensive general care; in fact, no 
one knows what the future may hold in 
store for us. 
The indifference of people generally to 
those long since passed away is well known 
to those who are now or have attempted 
to collect from such families for care of 
lots, not sold under the present perpetual 
care plan. 
ground as dry as an ash heap just from 
a furnace, and it was found that the roots 
had the power to gather and hold the mois- 
ture, and they were full, plump and fleshy 
and ready to grow with vigor when trans- 
planted. 
Some eighteen years ago Mr. Campbell, 
of St. Joseph, Mo., bought a small tree — 
the Pekenensis — which was the Chinese 
tree lilac. He writes that it is now eleven 
inches through and twenty-five feet tall. 
This tree is destined to be fifty feet tall and 
a foot in diameter. 
Across the way from where I write there 
are four of these trees that are seven 
inches through and twenty feet tall. Like 
apples, they are best on alternate years. 
They are flooded with great trusses of 
snowy white and honey scented flowers. 
In blooming time there is the hum of the 
happy bees, while the air is loaded with 
fragrance. You can imagine the beauty of 
this tree when covered with flowers. As 
an individual tree on the lawn or lining a 
walk or driveway it cannot fail to draw 
the admiration of the beholder. It is a 
June bloomer and so always escapes the 
frost. It is one of the best drought re- 
sisters we have. In the Republican valley, 
near the 100th meridian, a few were 
planted, and through three consecutive 
years they endured intense heat and terri- 
ble drought without flinching, while six 
kinds of poplars were entirely killed. The 
year after these terrible ordeals they 
bloomed beautifully. 
There is a Japanese tree lilac which 
created quite a furore in the East, bring- 
ing $5 apiece. This produced greyish white 
flowers and scentless. We have had both 
growing side by side. The Japanese can- 
not endure the heat as well as the Chinese 
and the leaves get rusty. The Chinese has 
bright, clean foliage ; the twigs are small 
and often of a pendulous habit and much 
more thrifty in growth. 
York, Neb. C. S. Harrison. 
PLANTING MATERIAL FOR 
More and more we associate flowers with 
our departed friends. I am an old man 
and I well remember the funerals of sixty- 
five years ago. Everything was somber. 
The house was filled with the sickening 
odor of fresh paint and varnish. No flow- 
ers. A funeral seemed like celebrating 
life’s great defeat. 
Now it is the celebration of a victory. 
Flowers everywhere — emblems of the land 
where “everlasting spring abides and never 
withering flowers.” 
In the past we used to linger at the 
grave. How the falling of clods on the 
coffin made us shiver ! Respect for the 
dead made us stay, in heat or cold, in sun- 
shine or storm, till the last shovelful of 
earth was placed on the grave. Now our 
friends disappear slowly amid banks of 
flowers and we think of them triumphantly 
ushered into everlasting Spring. People 
want flowers for cemeteries and must and 
will have them if possible. They need per- 
ennials that can endure some neglect. In 
the vast semi-arid regions people have been 
sorely tried to find something that will en- 
dure heat and drought. 
The flower has been found — the sun- 
loving and heat-loving flow'er. 
Prof. J. J. Thomber, of the University 
THE SEMI-ARID REGIONS. 
of Arizona, writes that he has for some 
time been testing 100 varieties of the Ger- 
man iris and they are succeeding wonder- 
fully. Hear him : 
“The writer knows of plants that have 
grown for several years on dry Arizona 
mesas with only the scant rainfall. In the 
heavy and dry clay soil in the cemetery of 
one of our mining towns irises are much 
planted and succeed beyond expectation. 
When established there, they grow and 
blossom year after year with little care and 
they have come to be known to the chil- 
dren as Easter lilies. I know of no other 
flower that would thrive so well under the 
same trying conditions. It is only within 
the last few years that they have begun to 
receive the attention from florists they 
merit. The large number of varieties, 
their artistic qualities and their wide range 
of color insure for them a permanent place 
in our gardens as well as in the heart of 
the amateur.” 
In Nebraska there is a great iris garden, 
one of the largest in the world, that has 
200,000 in 250 varieties. One summer we 
had but two inches of rain in the summer 
months, and thirty days when the mercury 
touched 100 degrees and over. Not a plant 
died; some were dug up in August from 
LANDSCAPE WORK AT SAN DIEGO EXPOSITION 
NATURAL PLANTING ON THE 
GROUNDS, SHOWING TYPE OF 
LAMP POST USED. 
Editor Park and Cemetery: Among 
the numerous impressions of splendid 
landscape and architectural features that 
were brought to my mind during the trip 
to and from the park superintendents’ 
convention in San Francisco none promise 
to be more lasting nor of greater value 
than those of the San Diego Panama- 
California Exposition. 
The splendid pictorial composition of 
architecture and landscape planting are not, 
I think, surpassed anywhere. 
I am enclosing a few photos taken on 
the grounds which illustrate this better than 
words can describe. 
When we are told that three years ago 
this place was a waste, without a single 
building, and with no foliage but that of 
INFORMAL PLANTING AT BASE OF 
BUILDING. 
