PARK AND CEMETERY 
Devoted to Art Out-of-Doors,- Parks, Ceme- 
teries, Town and Village Improvements. 
R. J. HAIGHT, Publisher, 
334 Dearborn Street, CHICAGO. 
Subscription $1.00 a Year in Advance. Foreign Subscription $1.25. 
Vol. VIII. CHICAGO. FEBRUARY, 1899. No. 12. 
IV. J. 1 , 
JOHN W. WESTON, C. E., 
Editors 
CONTENTS. 
EDITORIAL— AMERICAN PARK AND OUT-DOOR ART ASSOCIA- 
TION— CEMETERY I MPROVEMENTS - SUGGESTI ONS FOR THE 
NEXT A. A. C. S. CONVENTION— CEMETERY GARDENING 229, 23o 
MAGNOLIAS 2 3o 
’MOUNT GREENWOOD CEMETERY, CHICAGO 232 
’THE DYER FOUNTAIN, ROGER WILLIAMS PARK, PROVI- 
DENCE, R. I Z 34 
‘ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS, KEW, ENGLAND X 2 3s 
‘WATER LILIES -VICTORIA TRICKERI 237 
♦TRANSPLANTING ELMS, HUMBOLDT PARK, CHICAGO 238 
♦GARDEN PLANTS-THEIR GEOGRAPHY, XXXVIII 240 
*A WOODLAND PATH 24 i 
THE ARBOR VIT,E AMERICANA 242 
PARK NOTES 2 4 3 
CEMETERY NOTES 244 
CORRESPONDENCE 245 
SELECTED NOTES AND EXTRACTS 2 46 
PUBLISHER’S DEPARTMENT 247 
♦Illustrated. 
T HE receipt of the volume of proceedings of 
the American Park and Out-door Art Asso- 
ciation, recalls its two annual conventions, 
and the sympathetic enthusiasm which accompan- 
ied its deliberations in Louisville and Minneapolis 
respectively. Its deliberations and discussions very 
naturally extended beyond the mere domain of 
landscape art, and touched many of the by-paths 
leading into that broad expanse of practical work. 
This was especially marked at the Minneapolis con- 
vention, where considerable attention was paid to 
the cultivation of the child mind in practical mat- 
ters directly related to beauty of surroundings, and 
in which it was clearly demonstrated how impor- 
tant a part the school teacher plays in the educa- 
tion of the young in nature study. It also showed 
how fertile a field the public school is for dissemin- 
ating knowledge of this kind and to what a delight- 
ful result it tends. Another striking feature very 
ably discussed in an important paper, on the work- 
ing men’s homes about the National Cash Register 
Co.’s. Works at Dayton, O., was the value to the 
community, and in fact to the country at large, of 
the successful effort to improve the homes and sur- 
roundings of the working part of the community. 
This is a work that calls for the earnest effort of all 
employing agencies. Few efforts have been made, 
unfortunately, to prove the value of the departure, 
but where they have been essayed, the returns have 
keen wonderfully suggestive. Our attention has 
recently been drawn to the model village of Port 
Sunlight near Birkenhead, England, wherein the 
architect has been permitted to display taste and 
skill in the designs of the cottages and homes, where 
the surroundings are made attractive by plantings 
and lawns, where club rooms and every inducement 
to contented and happy life are provided, and where 
returns of one per cent, on the investment arc con- 
sidered an offset for the capital invested in view of 
the improved condition resulting. This is a busi- 
ness transaction on philanthropic lines which pays 
an immense moral dividend. 
O NE very gratifying effect of the lawn plan of 
cemetery development is that it compels 
attention to details which would otherwise 
remain neglected One can hardly imagine a beau- 
tifully planted plot of ground remaining very long 
degraded by unsightly entrance gates, or dilapidated 
boundaries. There is such a glaring inconsistency 
in such a condition, which exercises a very potent 
influence on the human mind. However careless 
nature may appear to be in some of her details, 
those details are more often clothed with an interest 
instructive or pleasing; there is a harmony some- 
where in color or design, and arrangement fre- 
quently suggests lessons worthy of inculcation. 
The lesson of nature repeats itself in man when 
dealing with natural objects, so that a discordant 
note jars continually until a change is brought 
about. In this way shabby and dilapidated build- 
ings and boundaries palls upon those intimately 
connected with cemetery management, and finally 
compels to a readjustment, to bring about har- 
monious relations throughout the grounds. It is 
gratifying to note quite a number of prospective 
improvements of this class under consideration. It 
is in line with the action to remove lot fences and 
curbing, which, while slow of complete eradication 
from our better cemeteries, nevertheless shows con- 
tinuous progress, and will undoubtedly continue, 
