St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-03-22

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| light, except 10 per cent of the sugar
NAPLES, 20 per cent of the oaks, and
| most of the pines, which were shipped
| too early. followed by the entire absence
| OF ram for some time after they were
| planted. The nursery stock was OBJ
| tanned mostly from the woods and cost
| but tritie except for labor. The total
| amount paid for the purchase of trees,
| shrubs. vines and nursery stock for
Como Cor o, park during the, year. was
| SS14.72. The total number of all
kinds planted was 1886 Loss thus far
| 1850. Two thirds of this loss or about
| l,3OO, was on pines in the nursery, and
| II we deduct the pines the average loss
| on all the balance is reduced to 5 per
| cent. Counting ali the previous plant
| lngS, we have growing now in the nur
sery $3.50 spruce, $50 pine, 1000 cedar,
| 800 mountain ash, $50 elm, 1000 white
ash, ST. box elder, 924 soft maple, 600
butternut, % catalpa, rs honey locust,
| 80 golden willow. 296 ironwood, 427 oak,
| 1S2 hickory, 81 linden. 249 juneberry and
| highbush cranberry, 1,00O sugar maple,
and 1,5l0 shrubs and vines. A few of
the above are now of suitable size for
| planting out i'll the park, but a large
| proportion must remain several years in
! nursery rows and be first transplanted
| there.
Greenhouse Plants.
| From the park greenhouse 1900
| plants were supplied; 1900 went to
Summit avenue and 24,S50 were planted
in Como park. Thirty flower beds were
maintained in Como park, covering an
area of one and half acres. The fol-
lowing is an alphabetical list of plants
supplied from the greenhouse: Achenia,
abutilOn, alternathera, achyranthus,
| 1UprntItm alNrSCIltn W htc aDniIn-
| gla, aSpediStraS, balSamS, begonia, bOu-
vardia, calendula, caladlum, Gamma,
cObea, cOleuS, centaurea, cuphea, cy-
| peruS, cOckScomb, castor oil plant, cam
panua, drac%na, delphneum. dielytra,
| feverfew, fuchSia. four CLOCK, geranium,
glaucium, gladiolus, heliotrope, hedera
! Gvy), hibiscus, hydrangea. hollyh0ck,
lberlS, impatiens, ipomea, lantana,
lilium, lObelia, morning glory, mgnOn-
| cite, naSturtlum, Rerium, oXaiis, Paris
daisy, paSSitlora, palms, petunia. pink,
Sedum. ScabiOSa, stocks, Stevia, sun
flower, tagetis, thunbergia. trOpGolum,
| Verbena, Vlnca, violet, yucca, Zinnia. A
better water supply for Como park is
sadly needed. The amount paid
during the year for hauling water for
trees, shrubs and flowers there was
| Sl,O36.50 No attempt was made to
| sprinkle the lawns or drives. The cost
of trimming borders and lawns and cut
| ting hay was 5000. The sum of 1928 was
added to the park fund by the sale of
nay. The entire absence of any ready
means to cheaper conveyance to Como
| park has caused it to be almost I'M
known to the masses of our citizens.
while the avenues of approach for We
hicleS are in very bad condition, and at
several points are unsafe for spirited
| animals. Improvements in these par
ticulars should receive attention. The
midsummer number of vehicles enter
ing Como park is about as follows:
Week days, 20 to 80 single teams and 10
to 40 double teams: on Sundays, so to
100 single teams and 40 to 60 double
teams. The number of people on horse
back has varied from ? to 10, while the
humber on foot generally ranges from
10 to 80, and seldom exceeds 100. These
numbers would be often Increased ten
fold ii there were proper conveyances
| and means of approach.
Summit Avenue.
Work on the Summit avenue Loule-
| ward improvement was recommended
! early i'll the spring and continued
| throughout the summer. The total out
| lay for labor was 50, S4S.70.
Summit avenue from Lexington to the
| Mississippi river, length of two and
| One-half miles, is 200 feet wide, subdi-
| vided generally as follows: Two foot
ways of ten feet, two paintings of fifteen
| feet, two r0adWayS of forty feet, and a
| central planting of seventy feet. At
| the railroad crossing, and in the vicinity
| of Smelling avenue, changes in the plan
| were made to give central roadway Of
! tifty-five feet, two paintings of thirty
! seven and a half feet, two roadWayS of
| nd fx.rn -
| trees, of fifteen feet. A half block
east of Smelling avenue there is a sum-
nit in the street grade giving a COM
| handing view of the surrounding cOun-
| try, and Of Minneapolis in the distance.
| At that point al egg-shaped mound was
raised in the center Of Summit avenue
for the purpose of some day placing
there a shelter for pedestrians, the whole
| TO be covered with vines and surrounded
with low shrubbery. The mound was
made from surplus tOpsoil saved from
reShaping the central beds in Summit
avenue, and was well enriched TO put
it in condition to properly support fut-
ure planting. Settling has occurred,
| and it must be redreSSed before being
| finally finished.
A very considerable amount of grad
| ing was necessary to get all the road
ways and beds i'll proper shape. Holes
for tree planting were dug five feet
| square at top, three feet at bottom and
four feet deep, and filled with topsoil.
| West OF Smelling avenue there is a long
stretch of level country subject to over
| flow, where, during wet periods, water
stands at the level of the street cutters.
| In that section the eXcavated material
| was peat, and the tree holes filled with
water as fast as the holes were dug.
Sand was used for refilling the bottoms
of such holes, and good upland topsoll
was placed above the sand. Sewers or
tile drains must be supplied to relieve
this section before trees will thrive
| there.
The following is a list of trees pur-
| chased and planted in Summit avenue
during the year: $50 sugar maple, 10
elm, 100 ash, 220 linden, 230 catalpa, los
box elder. 10 blackberry. 60 mountain
| ash, II cut-leaved birch, 5 buckeye and
67 spruce. The total number thus
planted was 1912 deciduous trees and
81 evergreens, or 1,409 in all, and the
loss thus far has been 145 deciduouS and
2 evergreens. The amount paid for
| the purchase of trees was s., 434. 01 "a
few surplus trees from this item went
to Como park and properly should have
been charged there; for fencing and tree
| protection, 81, 042. IS; for watering trees,
S499.50; for cutting grass, S515.
OF the large evergreenS plant the year
before. several of the spruce trees died.
and the balance of them suffered from
the dry winter and spring, till they
were too much disfigured to be allowed
to remain. The loss was confined to
labor for transplating and care during
one summer. Had we been blessed
with a wet season instead of an eX-
tremely dry one, it is quite likely that
most of the evergreens would have be-
come so established as to have with
stood future trials, though the risk in
moving evergreens twenty feet high is
great, even under favorable circum-
stances.
The principle governing all park i'm
prOvementS has been to so proceed that
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