PARK AND CEMETERY. 
Devoted to Art Out-of-Doors, — Parks, Ceme- 
teries, Town and Village Improvements. 
R. J. HAIGHT, Publisher, 
334 Dearborn Street, CHICAGO, 
R. J. HAIGHT, 
JOHN W. WESTON, C. E„ 
Editors. 
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Vol. VIII. CHICAGO, JANUARY, 1899. No. 11. 
CONTENTS. 
EDITORIAL— EDUCATION AT cemetery association annual 
MEETINGS -WOMAN'S WORK IN MUNICIPAL IMPROVEMENTS— 
RELATION OF MONUMENTAL ART TO LANDSCAPE— PRACTICAL 
POLITICS IN PARK APPOINTMENTS- 209.210 
AESTHETIC FORESTRY 211 
’PROSPECT HILL CEMETERY, OMAHA, NEB 212 
*A GOOD BEGINNING 2 i 3 
TREES NOT TO PLANT IN PARKS AND CEMETERIES 213 
ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS, KEW, ENGLAND, IX 2 i 4 
♦DESTROYING POISON VINE 216 
‘BOULDER WORK IN SWAN POINT CEMETERY, PROVI- 
DENCE, R. 1 217 
‘MAUSOLEUMS 218 
SUNDAY FUNERALS 2 i 9 
‘GARDEN PEANTS-THEIR GEOGRAPHY, XXXVII 220 
EARLY FLOWERING BULBOUS AND TUBEROUS PLANTS, 
III 222 
CULTIVATING A SENSE OF BEAUTY 223 
PARK NOTES 22 4 
CEMETERY NOTES 225 
CORRESPONDENCE m6 
LEGAL 226 
SELECTED NOTES AND EXTRACTS 227 
PUBLISHER’S DEPARTMENT 22 « 
‘Illustrated. 
T HE propriety, not to say the necessity, of edu- 
cating lot-owners up to the new conditions 
controlling modern cemetery practice is be- 
ing considered with more or less seriousness by all 
prominent cemetery officials. So many new ques- 
tions have been brought to bear in cemetery mat- 
ters, rules and regulations have in very many cases 
been radically amended, restrictions have been im- 
posed upon the lot-owners and such changes brought 
about, that to a considerable extent their confidence 
has been shaken and they are wary of any new sug- 
gestions. To reinstate this confidence and to de- 
monstrate that the changes and innovations are for 
their benefit is the work of the hour. To some ex- 
tent this has been done, but cemetery officials have 
not been so intelligently active as they might have 
been-, nor have they adopted means sufficiently edu- 
cational to impress the average lot-owner with the 
advantages of the changes. An excellent opportun- 
ity ofters for the promulgation of information, and 
the emphasizing of the importance of it, at the 
annual meetings of cemetery associations, and to 
include educational features of a nature to convey 
an intelligent appreciation of the object of the new 
order of things, and the advantages to be secured 
by active co-operation with the trustees and other 
officials. This could be made markedly effective, 
by the reading of papers and the encouragement of 
an interchange of ideas and suggestions between 
lot-owners and their officers. This too would serve 
to attract a larger attendance at such meetings, 
which as a rule are but poorly attended. Too much 
apathy exists among trustees as well as lot-owners. 
It is now the period for annual meetings, but there 
is ample time in the majority of cases for arranging 
an educational campaign on the lines suggested, or 
on any lines that circumstances point out as judi- 
cious. Some effort in this direction will yield a 
hundredfold of good results. 
T HAT the influence of woman in human af- 
fairs is far reaching, has been declared in 
all times where any pretensions to pro- 
gress have been acknowledged, or her influence 
been allowed opportunity. Limitations to her ac- 
tivities were, however, so pronounced, that only 
in certain spheres was the good she accomplished 
made manifest. In this new age these limitations 
have in a large measure been entirely removed, so 
that we observe the arena of woman’s usefulness so 
greatly enlarged, that there are few avenues of 
effort, public or private, where her footprints are 
not seen, and even in fields where hitherto man as a 
governing agent has persistently refused to give her 
access. This thought comes from a consideration of 
the growing interest taken by women, associated 
in societies, in the improvements suggested by park 
work in some of our large cities. We say suggested 
by park work, because the term is suggestive of 
refined improvement outside the limits of park areas; 
and we have in mind cities like Indianapolis, Min- 
neapolis, and Denver, and more or less the larger 
ones also. In Indianapolis, for instance, the sub- 
ject of the planting of street trees, their care, their 
protection from advertising abuses and injury from 
horses and other causes, has been taken in hand by 
an association of women, and the work has been 
effective. A feature of the work in Denver is the 
care of vacant property in the city, and this has 
