The Dickinson press., 1915-04-17
SET 1|00 PINES
$50 HEDGE PLANTS
PLANTS FOR HEDGE AND MANY
TREES FOR DICKINS SON
CEMETERY GROUNDS
THIS SPRING.
Young Park to Have Two Kinds of
Pine. Circle on Marguerite
Boulevard Gets More Trees.

This is the time of the year when
every body should be getting trees
and shrubs for the yard if they have
not already attended to this important
matter.
A special effort is being made this
spring to beautify the Dickinson
cemetery grounds. President A. T..
Crowl has engaged German care
taker who will commence May 1 or
possibly a little earlier. This man
and his son are experienced in this
kind of work and will live in the
cemetery house for about four months
of the growing season to see that all
trees and plants set are properly wat
cred and cared for. A fund was
raised last fall by popular subscrip-
tion to defray this expense, and now
the committee desires to get dona-
tions of trees.
Mr.. Crowl and Miss Grace will not
return from California until the last
days of April, but in their absence
Mrs. Harry Beidler, acting secretary,
will be a good person to consult about
cemetery matters.
The Ladies' Auxiliary society has
the carigana. This plant grows tall
and bushy, and resembles the Russian
hedge. The hedge is to be set on
the west side this year, just inside
the fence which was set out last fall
on the property line. The strip of
vacant ground on the west and south
sides was plowed last season and with
proper working this spring will be in
good shape for the hedge and trees.
Two dozen mountain ash trees have
been ordered, also $50 box elder
trees, the plan being to use these
along the cemetery walks. If people
who have lots in the cemetery will
donate suitable trees for shelter belts,
the same will be watered and will be
taken care of during the summer sea-
son. If so people would donate a
half dozen trees each it would make
a fine showing for 1915. In addition
to donations for shelter belts, people
should place shrubs and trees on the
individual lots. It has been sug-
gested by the committee that hardy
evergreen trees are about as good as
any thing for the lots. However, this
is a matter of taste and is left en-
tirely with the owner.
If people living at distance will
send funds and directions to Mrs.
Harry Beidler they will be sure of
having their lots improved as far as
the means given will allow.
It will be remembered that the
cemetery association piped the
grounds for the city water last year.
IL 100 E,vQrpropns
The Young Park board, consisting
of Supt. L. r. Waldron, DIR. V. H.
Stickmey and Postmaster Frank Lish,
has placed an order with a Mime
sofa firm for 1,100 bull pine trans
plants, 100 seeding jack pine and 10
transplants. Half Of the pines will
be put in a nursery row on the low
lands of the park, where they can be
watered and transplanted another
year and the balance will be set
around the entrance of the park. A
quantity of evergreen seed from
Alberta will also be planted this
spring at the Dickinson experiment
station for park purposes. q
The park board has also placed an
order for 600 small trees, including a
quantity of Norway poplars, which
will be used for replacing, etc. The
trees already set in the Young Park
are doing well, but it is the belief of
Chairman Waldron that considerable
pruning will be advisable this season.
This board acts under the direction
of the city and has "a fund Of about
$3.50 for park improvements for 1916.
AS most of our readers know, the
Young Park, donation to the city
from James C. Young, o comprises 25
acres of land in the northwestern
portion of the city, the tract of land
known in early days as Rocky Butte:
Tree planting was started several
years. ago and it will not be long un-
til this park will have some handsome
drives.
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Improve the Circle
The board appointed by James G..
Young to look after the Circle on
Marguerite Boulevard has ordered
125 cottonwoods and Norway poplars
for planting this spring. Four
blocks are fenced on the Circle
where a few trees were successfully
started last year. The board hoped
to get water extended to this locality
this season, but the city did not see
fit to grant the petition. However,
the board will set - more trees. any
way and with little extra; care will
be able to save most of them. %
DIR. VII. Stickney is chairman of
the Marguerite Boulevard circle
board and Nv. r.. Veigel and M. l..
Ayers are the other members. This
board is appointed by MIR. Young and
has u fund which the Minneapolis
gentleman very generously placed at
their disposal for circle in improve
ments. ? y @.Es .... ~ eyr y. -. J
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The Simpson Park in the eastern