PARK AND CEMETERY. 
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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. VII. CHICAGO, FEB., 1898. No. 12. 
CONTENTS. 
EDITORIAL— Parks and Politics— Outdoor Improvement- 
Progress of Park Development— Appropriateness of 
Monument Sites 263 
RESIDENCE STREETS, VI 264 
THE ONONDAGA, N. Y„ COUNTY CEMETERY ASSOCIA- 
TION 265 
♦A FEATURE OF PARK DEVELOPMENT, CAMBRIDGE, 
MASS 266 
♦WAYSIDE PLANTING 268 
♦FOREST HILL CEMETERY, KANSAS CITY, MO 268 
♦CHRYSANTHEMUM DISPLAY, FAIRMOUNT PARK, PHIL- 
ADELPHIA, PA 272 
RAPIDITY OF GROWTH IN OAKS 272 
♦GARDEN PLANTS-THEIR GEOGRAPHY, XXVI 274 
♦THE HERCULES BRIDGE, BERLIN 276 
*A CROSS MONUMENT 277 
*A FOLIAGE AND FLOWER BED 278 
PARK NOTES 2 7 g 
CEMETERY NOTES 280 
CEMETERY REPOUTS 281 
PUBLISHERS' DEPARTMENT 282 
♦Illustrated. 
T HERE can be nothing more detrimental to 
park development, looking at it from the 
aesthetic standpoint, from which point it is 
quite proper to consider it, than the interference of 
politics. While we may not have reached that con- 
dition wherein the appointive power of park com- 
missions is disinterested enough, or is independent 
enough, to ignore party lines, yet there should be 
sufficient intelligence to understand that park de- 
velopment, from its very nature and purpose, will 
insist upon undivided attention and that of the 
highest character, for good results, or will quickly 
esent the infraction of true service. No service 
is more exacting, while none yields more satisfac- 
tion; but that service demands the highest order of 
intelligence, with profound knowledge in certain 
lines of information, and the devotion which an un- 
divided love for the work engenders. The people 
should insist, peremptorily and absolutely, that no 
political considerations should be allowed to inter- 
fere with their park affairs, and should visit with 
effective force officials, high or low, whose ignor- 
ance or cupidity, or both, leads them to trespass 
upon such assured prerogatives. Cases in point 
which prompt these remarks, are charges recently 
made in the Department of Parks, of New York 
City, and that of Patterson, N. J., both of which 
are directly traceable to political interference. The 
Patterson matter is a particularly glaring offense, 
and is calling forth loud denunciations. There 
must be no compromise. Park and cemetery con- 
trol must be absolutely divorced from the destruc- 
tive influences of selfish partisanship. 
I T is gratifying to note the growth of effort to 
improve out-of-door conditions, such as the 
formation of Cemetery Improvement Associa- 
tions, Village Improvement Societies, and the like, 
which are springing up in localities so far apart in 
the country, that it may well be believed that the 
movement is due, not to any local revival of in- 
terest, but to a widespread appreciation of the 
benefits to be realized. The devoted efforts of the 
past few years, to educate the people to the oppor- 
tunities which lay ready at hand to improve 
their surroundings, are bearing fruit, and the result 
will soon surely be that our homes and villages will 
call for as much comment on their attractive con- 
dition as they do now on their crude appearance. 
The season is now at hand for beginning the prac- 
tical work of the year; the winter should have wit- 
nessed a careful study of the situation, what were 
best to be done, what might be needed, and what 
amount of work might probably be accomplished 
with the prospective means under control. It Is 
time all these preliminaries had been accomplished, 
and orders sent in for the necessary materials for 
the work. In our northern latitudes the spring is 
so very short that but little time is left for actual 
work, and the preliminaries, to make any progress, 
must be settled before out-of-door labor can be un- 
dertaken. But the laggard ones or those who have 
been prevented from arranging for their out-of- 
door improvements, need not despair. Although 
there is much to do, nature is lavish both of mate- 
