Show ah craft tf low I 1 1019 TV m rg huipo mal MAKING THE CITY BEAUTIFUL some new now idea ideas that haw have been adopted by the municipalities of europe european cities are discarding the checkerboard street plan ays says the new york world arid paria parts led the way in napoleon ills III time when barou Ila prefect of tie the sene build great boulevard boulevards and avenue avenues by bir the hundred laid out diagonal avenues between important point points and con strutted ted en girdling boulevard boulevards the sum um a of vas was spent event in this work and last year it waa was decided to devote more thereto london has ha done a similar but mailer maller work ork to kingswan kingsway king sWay way the german cities atre following neither the checkerboard nor the radial avenue ring boulevard plan 1 their I heir new a streets wind perceptibly so as to open fresh vistas and permit of collateral effects of parking and statuary instead of locating their public buildings at random the capitals of europe arrange them with relation to each other and to some park open space or boulevard so that they con tribute to one central effect the aln et est Is the of vienne and other notable examples are berlin a unter den linden and lustgarten moscow a s kremlin dresden a zwin ger the lottre region of paris and the brandie grand paco place of Brust brussels els in dresden citizen citizens have under tak en to induce every landlord and ten ant to decorate yard yards buildings and cas casements emonts with plants vines shrubs and window boxes the authorities have operated cooperated co by decorating muni cip capil d buildings and at a small eapen deture the summer aspect of the city has been transformer transform let the elor sense has been indulged in all russian Ilus cities building ex are of plaster to protect the brick from the frost and every year these are repaired and repainted and red blue buff green white and gilt diversified with mos masics alco are success fully employed every important european city has ha regulations restricting the height vt of buildings the width of balconies the project projection fon of cornices cornicks cor nices the size of win dows and the character of lamps signs awnings fences and doorways AID IN STUDY OF BOTANY california newspaper for establishment E of special garden for the purpose the especial necessity of a botan cal garden must appeal to us all every one having a 60 50 or foot lot who Is trying to esta establish bIlAh a beautiful home among us must have wished at some time to make this home attract live by planting choice trees and shrubs about it and would like the plants to be a little different perhaps more beautiful than the common ones to be seen around him not however having seen more than an occasional tree in a neighbors neighbor a garden that be he particularly fancies and having no means of learning the correct damn namo he be must be content with v hat the nurseryman choss to offer him and if it it should be somo soma new and rare variety be he Is 1 Irp orant as to what bin it will attain whether he will like tho th flowers flo were what space it will require to fully develop its individual beauty and under vi v hat t conditions it will nourish flourish all 1 there lons would be an alered by a visit to a botanical gar den anch ich wajid be a botanical die dic flonary with the roat most exquisite and truthful colored colored by the hand of nature A lettered board would give the name family species and u native home we would learn bow do very few of the thousands of beautiful t dings we ne here enjoy tas a angeles times demand for good streets with the general its of the automobile came the demand for the bell of streets and roads a debrand leir arnt that ran can not be suppressed and wm not be de riled the more one loves kiture tie more he that which en a ables him to see e the and beniot it in the automobile nn an a bocki ROO street fir or road rine Is able to enjoy the beau beats ties tics of both garden and field anharn by clouds of dust or the rule incident to ravel travel over naturals alT alj dirt roada roads we have to thank the be automobile for our present good roads and many have to thank the roads for having aa an automobile intact uniform planting the trees upon each street should be of one kind equal distances apart and if it in ordinary parkways in A straight line aben we get got i ly sensible in street building wp we dball have narrow driveways in residence districts with correspondingly wider parkways park ways then shall xe so havu informal planting of street trees and shrubbery robbery th masses with all subjects enjoying perfect health through belna in neary nearly iia natural tural conditions as regards air water and surrounding vegetation cr crass ass etc |