PARK AND CEMETERY. 
Devoted to Art Out-of -Doors, — Parks, Ceme- 
teries, Town and Village Improvements. 
R. J. HAIGHT, Publisher, 
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R. J. HAIGHT, 
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VOL. VIII. CHICAGO, DEC’MB’R, 1898. No. 10. 
CONTENTS. 
EDI TORIAL— parks and politics -the rural cemetery— the 
DESTRUCTION OFTKEKS-THE LAWN PLAN 189-I9O 
PROTECTING TENDER TREES AND SHRUBS IN WINTER i 9 i 
SHRUBS AND TREES FOR PARKS 192 
*FANCY LEAVED CALADIUMS i 92 
‘LANDSDOWNE RAVINE, FAIRMOUNT PARK, PHILADEL 
PH 
’KRUG PARK, ST. JOSEPH, MO 194 
’THE CHALEL, RIVERSIDE CEMETERY, CLEVELAND, O. i95 
’MAIN ENTRANCE CROWN HILL CEMETERY, INDIANA- 
POLIS, IND 196 
•VICTORIA REGIA 196 
EARLT FLOWERING BULBOUS AND TUBEROUS PLANTS, 
II 199 
•ROYAL BO TANIC GARDENS, KEW, ENGLAND, VIII 200 
’GARDEN PLANTS-THEIR GEOGRAPHY, XXXVI 202 
PARK NOTES 204 
CEMETERY NOTES 2o5 
LEGAL 206 
SELECTED NOTES AND EXTRACTS 2 o 7 
PUBLISHER'S DEPARTMENT 208 
’Illustrated. 
I N the park report of Cincinnati, recently issued, 
Mr. Warder, the superintendent, touches a 
note in regard to park ethics, which has not 
been given the decisive touch that it deserves from 
the people — politics in park matters. The report 
says in so many words, that wherever appointments 
have been made in park work, in any of its depart- 
ments, based on political fitness, they have been 
disastrous to the park interests. It does not take 
much thinking to agree with this, or to understand 
it. From the standpoint of the laborer, work in the 
park is distinct in its nature. No man used to 
sweeping streets, digging trenches, carrying bricks, 
or doing an ordinary laborer’s work is fit to be in- 
trusted with park labor without training, and the 
more intelligent that man is the better for the park 
and himself. A park laborer should have some 
knowledge of the trees and plants he has to deal 
with, their habits and requirements, and presuming 
that attention to his duties has led him to acquire 
this knowledge, no political necessities should in- 
terfere with his job. And the same idea, modified 
to suit circumstances, attaches itself to the park 
official list generally. We have had some extra- 
ordinary misfits in park official life, due to the po- 
litical fashions of the time, and the people should 
see to it, that park work is divorced from such evil 
influences. 
T O those in earnest on the subject of improving 
the country cemetery, it is a source of great 
disappointment that so little attention is 
given to the question, considering the efforts now 
constantly made to modify the neglect that has 
hitherto governed the rural graveyard. While the 
agitation has been widespread, and taken as a 
whole, the number of small cemeteries receiving 
better care by reason of it, remarkable, consider- 
ing the difficulty of impressing upon the smaller 
communities the advantages of improvement, the 
number of existing cemeteries practically neglected 
is astonishing. Looking at the strides made in 
general progress in a large measure due to the 
press, how it is that the agricultural papers have 
not realized the importance of urging the care of the 
cemetery as a matter of communal education? And 
then the clergy have been remiss in their lack of ef- 
fort to stimulate consideration for the burial ground. 
It is quite true that some funds and considerable 
care is constantly required to keep the grounds in 
order, but from the fact that the burial ground is an 
acknowledged criterion of the enlightenment of a 
community, these items should be included in the 
category of civic duties. Looking at conditions as 
they exist at present it would seem that a combina- 
tion of contiguous communities to secure a central 
cemetery, would lead to better results. By appor- 
tioning the expenses they would become less oner- 
ous and a superintendent could be engaged the 
year round. This would ensure orderly and well 
kept grounds, which would be far more satisfactory 
and attractive, and being so would readily become, 
to a large extent, self supporting. This idea is en- 
tirely overlooked in the county cemetery. Another 
view, which might redound to better conditions, 
