PARK AND CEMETERY. 
Devoted to Art Out-of-Doors, — Parks, Ceme- 
teries, Town and Village Improvements. 
R. J. HAIGHT, Publisher, R- J- HAIGHT, 
JOHN W. WESTON, C. E., 
334 Dearborn Street. CHICAGO. Editors 
Subscription $1,00 a Year in A Ivance. Foreign Subscription $1.25. 
VOL. VII. CHICAGO, APRIL, 1897. No. 2. 
CONTENTS. 
EDITORIAL— Arbor Day -Park Work in Europe and Amer- 
ica 25 
ARBOR DAY IN THE UNITED STATES 26 
GARDEN AND PARK IMPROVEMENT 27 
‘THE HUNT MEMORIAL 29 
PLANTING OF ROADS AND AVENUES, 3o 
♦ENTRANCE GATES AND LODGE, WOODLAWN CEME- 
TERY, EVERETT, MASS 3i 
♦THE LOUISVILLE PARK SYSTEM 32 
*A VILLAGE MADE BEAUTIFUL-A RECLAIMED SWAMP.. 3 4 
♦GARDEN PLANTS, THEIR GEOGRAPHY, XVII ;6 
♦LADIES' LAVATORY, PROSPECT PARK, BROOKLYN 3 $ 
BULBS FOR THE CEMETERY 3 9 
♦BURIAL PLACE OF TWO AMERICAN GENERALS 4o 
♦COMMON SHRUBS 41 
♦A DRINKING FOUNTAIN, CHELSEA, MASS 42 
♦NEW FORM OF MEMORIAL MONUMENT 43 
"WATER LILIES 44 
PARK NOTES 45 
CEMETERY NOTES 41 
CORRESPONDENCE 4 0 
PUBLISHERS' DEPARTMENT 4i 
♦Illustrated. 
RBOR DAY is a prominent feature for spring 
thought, for it promises so much that is 
good and useful for the future. It is espe- 
cially proper that the young should be well grounded 
in a knowledge of plant life, for “Art-out-of-doors” 
will be the particular mark of American progress in 
the coming years, and the good cause will be greatly 
advanced by the active interest of the children. It 
is a cause for intense gratification that, in the legis- 
lation enacted by the several states for the obser- 
vance of Arbor Day and its specified duties, the 
public schools are specifically encouraged to take a 
prominent part. The young love nature, and by 
fostering and educating that love into active chan- 
nels, the most rapid development may be acco 
plished and results more surely secured. The Tree 
Planting and Fountain Society of Brooklyn, New 
York, than perhaps no similar organization in the 
world has done more practical work or disseminated 
knowledge on the subject of trees in a more popu- 
lar and comprehensible way, has issued a special 
circular addressed to the children. It points out 
what they may accomplish in language adapted to 
their capacity, suggests lines of work, shows the 
possible results of their co-operation and offers the 
society’s help in all the information it possesses. 
Every town and village should organize its Tree 
Planting or Improvement Association, interest the 
public school in its work and there is no question 
as to the returns. It will yield a better profit than 
any commercial transaction, because increasing the 
capital of human happiness, upon which to build 
higher things. 
I N a lecture delivered before the Art Society of 
Worcester, Mass., Mr. C. Howard Walker, the 
Boston Architect, discussed the different meth- 
ods pursued in Europe and the United States in the 
adornment of cities, much to the discredit of the 
latter. The lecture was illustrated and the contrast 
made the more effective, showing the utter disre- 
gard of the rules of art in the development of muni- 
cipal improvements on this side of the Atlantic. 
The parks of t le country, however, were commended 
as a redeeming feature, although as was stated, 
Americans made the mistake of allowing nature to 
have her own way too much. This comment is per- 
haps due to the architectural bias caused by dealing 
with regular forms and expressions; for unquestion- 
ably, the beauty and special distinctiveness of the 
American park is the naturalness marking its plan- 
ning and development, and the evident tendency 
of the cultivated landscape gardener to follow na- 
ture’s methods in her highest expressions and assist 
her in her wonderful displays, rather than to train 
her to ways of his own. The public park affords 
opportunities of keeping to nature’s standard as a 
buttress against which a national style can safely 
stand, and it is this support which is giving strength 
to the idea that the American park must be the 
standard of landscape art. 
