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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
A PAPER devoted especially to the interests of 
parks, cemeteries and in a general way to 
the beautifying of all outdoor space where 
planting can be done, should have something to say 
with regard to the men whose business it is to de- 
sign and carry out work connected with these places. 
We are, therefore, glad to publish in another column 
an article on the landscape gardener and his work. 
We believe it is unfortunate that the men engaged 
in this work have adopted a number of different 
names for their profession and hope the time will 
come when “landscape gardener” will be used as a 
matter of course, just as “architect” is used by men 
who design buildings. We give in another place 
some remarks on this subject quoted from Prof. 
Bailey’s writings in “ American Gardening" for the 
year 1893. That there is an increasing interest taken 
in landscape beauty must be acknowledged by all 
and we earnestly hope the time will come when “art 
out of doors” will receive as much attention as is now 
given to architecture and painting. 
TREE PLANTING ASSOCIATIONS. 
^Tree planting associations organized on broad 
lines, and containing the energy necessary to main- 
tain a continued effort in spite of discouragement 
and lack of co-operation, must in time effect im- 
provements in our cities and villages, beneficial to 
all interests, from the enlightened motives which in- 
spire the work and the happy results of the work 
accomplished. Several associations have been or- 
ganized and they are meeting with fair success, 
even in the troublesome times which have marked 
the business condition of the country for years 
past. And it may reasonably be expected that 
when the normal condition of business prosperity 
again becomes a settled fact, such efforts to improve 
and add more of nature to our city life, will receive 
an impetus which will result in adding charms to 
our surroundings, increasing year by year as cities 
grow older. 
At this time we note especially the associations 
in active operation in Brooklyn and New York. 
Brooklyn. 
The Tree Planting and Fountain Society of 
Brooklyn, has been in operation for some years, 
and is now gaining rapidly in public favor. It is re- 
ceiving greater support from the authorities and 
the results of its work have justified a keener sym- 
pathy with its efforts from press and public. 
The objects of the society as recorded in its 
constitution is to “promote the planting and pro- 
tection of trees, the erection of drinking fountains, 
and otherwise to render the city of Brooklyn at- 
tractive.” 
In educational work it has published and dis- 
tributed among its members and others a fund of 
information on trees in general for city use, their 
care, requirements, habits, and even cost and busi- 
ness details connected with their planting in the 
city thoroughfares. The secretary of the society, 
Mr. Lewis Collins, appears to have been not only zeal- 
ous in the work but most active, and has been the 
means, undoubtedly, of making Brooklyn one of 
the best informed cities on arboriculture in the 
country. 
One of the chief features of the work of the so- 
ciety is the fostering and encouragement of local 
improvement clubs, which may be organized to in- 
clude a block, a street or district of greater or less 
extent. In relation to this the secretary says: 
“The organization should be permanent. The ob- 
jects are refining and ennobling in their influence. 
They are worthy the attention and support of the 
highly cultured. An opportunity is offered for a dis- 
play of taste, etc.” 
The society has issued a number of pamphlets 
and circulars. It has also developed arrangements 
for supplying its members and the members of its 
auxiliary clubs with the required trees, and planting 
and caring for the same, and is rapidly extending 
an influence that must be beneficial to all interested. 
The society maintains offices at 44 Court Street, 
Brooklyn, with the secretary, or someone competent 
to advise, in attendance, during office hours. 
New York. 
The Tree Planting Association of New York 
City, organized with the object of encouraging, the 
planting of trees on the residential streets and in 
the tenement districts, is under the presidency 
of Mayor Wm. L. Strong, with W. A. Stiles, Park 
Commissioner, secretary, whose office is in the 
Tribune Building of that city. The society is ag- 
gressively active, both in the efforts to promote the 
organization of local clubs, and in the actual work 
of inducing the planting of trees where such will be 
a benefit and improvement. The society has also 
exercised a business activity in effecting arrange- 
ments with local nurserymen for the supply, plant- 
ing and care for a certain time of desirable trees on 
stipulated terms. 
The work of the societies in the two cities 
named will afford ample demonstration of the good 
that can be accomplished by such organizations, 
and their work and experience is readily available 
for similar work anywhere and everywhere. No one 
acquainted with the aspect of a treeless town, as 
compared with that of one adorned with healthy 
avenues of trees, will question the advantages of 
the latter condition even from a utilitarian stand- 
point. 
