PARK AND CEMETERY. 
Devoted to Art Out-of-Doors, — Parks, Ceme- 
teries, Town and Village Improvements. 
R. HAIGHT, Publisher, R. J- HAIGHT, 
JOHN W. WESTON, C. E., 
334 Dearborn Street, CHICAGO. Editors* 
Subscription $1,00 a Year in Advance. Foreign Subscription $1.25. 
Vol. VII. CHICAGO, MARCH, 1897. No. 1. 
CONTENTS. 
EDITORIAL— Greeting — Politics and Park Work— Pro- 
posed Washington Monument, Chicago i 
TREE PLANTING ASSOCIATIONS 2 
THE LANDSCAPE GARDENER AND HIS WORK 3 
♦COLUMN OF VICTORY, BERLIN 5 
♦CEMETERY DEVELOPMENT b 
REFORM CLUB, NEW YORK CITY 8 
♦ALL SUMMER EFFECTS IN PLANTING 8 
•OAK GROVE CEMETERY, DELAWARE, 0 10 
VILLAGE IMPROVEMENTS n 
♦RURAL LANES OF ENGLAND 12 
♦THE COMMON, LEICESTER, MASS 14 
♦GARDEN PLANTS, THEIR GEOGRAPHY, XVI 16 
LE NOTRE, THE GARDENER iS 
THE TERM LANDSCAPE GARDENER 20 
PARK NOTES 21 
CEMETERY NOTES 22 
PUBLISHERS’ DEPARTMENT 24 
♦Illustrated. 
ITH the present issue this journal begins its 
seventh annual volume, and takes a longer 
stride into the broad field to which the scope 
of its appointed work surely points. Simulta- 
neously with the rapidly growing sentiment regard- 
ing the establishing of parks and the improvement 
of cemeteries, appears the necessity of a general 
betterment of our natural surroundings. The very 
fact of the exhilarating and elevating influences 
which improved landscape work in our parks and 
cemeteries exercise over the community, indubita- 
bly points to the necessity of improved landscape 
effects in our door yards, streets and public places, 
to maintain the influences induced by the beauty of 
the parks, and thus help to bring man more in har- 
mony with nature and nature’s God, as a perma- 
nent condition. To this end all the spirit of land- 
scape effects tends. It is a leading influence in the 
higher education of man, and has manifested itself on 
the human family through all the ages. Landscape 
art is a field in which the brightest minds and the 
highest intelligence has found ample scope, and its 
fair representation in journalism is a work to be con- 
ducted with the greatest care and broadest inten- 
tion. Appreciating its requirements, it is and has 
been the aim of this journal to invite the co-opera- 
tion of men who have become well known in this 
line of work, and in this connection on another page 
will be found the names of several eminent authori- 
ties on landscape art and its related interests, who 
will contribute in forthcoming issues. 
A NEW administration in the State of Illinois 
brought about changes in the West Park 
Board of Commissioners of Chicago, and a 
discussion has arisen in that body relative to the 
selection of a superintendent. Politics and political 
methods never yet helped art out of doors or art in- 
doors, and a park superintendent should be ap- 
pointed solely for his professional ability in park 
work. In a park of any magnitude a man of large 
experience is indispensable, and this experience 
must cover both a high order of landscape art and 
the executive ability to economically carry along 
both the work of improvement and that of mainte- 
nance also. The art of the landscape gardener is 
absorbing, and like the other leading professions its 
votaries have little time to cultivate politics. It is 
to be hoped the West Park Board of Chicago will 
not make so important an appointment from motives 
utterly at variance with a park’s best interests. 
A PROJECT is on foot to erect by public sub- 
scription a statue of George Washington in 
Chicago, the proposed cost to be $25,000, 
Chicago as yet possesses no monument to the Father 
of his Country, although a delightful memorial in 
the way of Washington Park. Lincoln is already 
commemorated in Lincoln Park by a beautiful work 
in bronze by St. Gaudens, and a bequest of the late 
John Crerar of $100,000 should provide another 
and more magnificent memorial to the ‘’Liberator.” 
Under these circumstances the amount of $25,000 
is quite inadequate to provide a suitable monument 
of Washington, which should be a memorial pre- 
tentious enough to invoke the highest artistic skill, 
and worthy to be compared with the proposed Lin- 
coln monument, as well as do credit to the great 
city and its progressive sp 
