PARK and CEMETERY. 
Devoted to Art Out-of-Doors, — Parks, Ceme- 
teries, Town and Village Improvements. 
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Vol. VII. CHICAGO, NOV., 1897. No. 9. 
CONTENTS. 
EDITORIAL— Helps to Landscape Improvement— Encour- 
age Artistic Monuments— Sunday Funerals 203 
•RESIDENCE STREETS— III 204 
RELATION OF BIRDS TO HORTICULTURE 206 
•THE NORTH BURIAL GROUND, PROVIDENCE, R. 1 207 
*G. A. R. MEMORIAL CHAPEL, EAST LIVERPOOL, 0 208 
♦OAKDALE CEMETERY, WILMINGTON, DEL 210 
JAPAN LILY DISEASE.— FORESTRY ON THE VANDER- 
BILT ESTATE, BILTMORE, N. C 
♦GARDEN PLANTS; THEIR GEOGRAPHY, XXIV , 
FLOWER SHOW OF THE NEW YORK GARDENERS' 
SOCIETY t 
•A GROUP OF ARALIA SPINOSA IN FAIRMOUNT PARK, 
PHILADELPHIA 215 
♦PROPOSED PARK AT AUSTIN, MINN 216 
THE ANNUAL FLOWER SHOW, CHICAGO 218 
PARK NOTES 219 
CEMETERY NOTES 220 
CORRESPONDENCE 221 
PUBLISHER'S DEPARTMENT 222 
♦Illustrated. 
HE field for landscape improvement is such a 
broad one that any information, or system 
of information, calculated to facilitate the 
study of the subject for local adornment or instruc- 
tion should be welcomed. The love of nature seems 
to be firmly implanted in the human intelligence, 
and turn in what direction we will, we find crude ef- 
forts at cultivation for pleasure’s sake, apart from 
necessity. To raise the standard of such effort to the 
larger sphere of artistically adorning the homestead 
or park, or to invoke sufficient interest as to lead 
to the necessary expenditure for such work, in view 
of the benefits it imparts and bestows, requires the 
stimulus of intelligent appreciation of the materials 
at command, which can only be secured by practi- 
cal information interestingly presented. For some 
time past there have been published in these col- 
umns an important series of chapters under the 
head of “Garden Plants — Their Geography,” which, 
while being presented in a style easily comprehen- 
sible to any reader, will bear thorough scientific 
investigation, both as to arrangement of classes and 
accuracy of information. But the real value of 
these articles does not lie alone in the scientifically 
accurate information they contain, but in the oppor- 
tunities they offer for the selection of appropriate 
plants for decorative effects or for landscape work, 
or for collections of plants for educational purposes. 
A little study of the series will open up avenues of 
useful practical application not yielded by a simple 
cursory examination. And, moreover, selections of 
plants may be made suitable to any section of the 
country. With the- aid of these chapters it is possi- 
ble to decorate a lawn with plants from every alli- 
ance so far published, and this in a manner which 
will serve as a natural reference book for students in 
the classes planted out. These few suggestions may 
be made to bear abundant fruit in connection with 
the work in course of publication. 
I T is regrettable to notice that the committee on 
the Jersey City Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Monu- 
ment, whose prospectus issued some time 
since, contained provisions that would undoubtedly 
secure a meritorious monument, has been assailed 
by sundry organizations of that city on purely selfish 
grounds, and grounds that have no place in the 
question of public memorials. Much has been 
written in these columns on the important subject 
of artistic monuments in our cities, and much more 
remains to be said, if the old soldiers’ societies and 
trade organizations are to dictate in matters involv- 
ing such important principles, principles requiring 
the highest intelligence, as well as a broad educa- 
tion, to interpret. It is painful to refer again to the 
mass of poor monuments, masquerading as art, and 
occupying prominent sites in our cities, of which a 
very large percentage would never have been per- 
mitted to occupy valuable space if wise and intelligent 
care had been exercised in the selection of designs. 
Common respect for those memorialized, and the 
great principles often intended to be expressed, but 
too frequently missed, should at least teach that 
self-interest must be abandoned for the sake of the 
cause, and that a real work of art speaks for itself 
and what it represents, while poor monuments be- 
speak more particularly the ignorance and, per- 
haps, cupidity of those who were mainly responsi- 
ble for them. 
