PARK and CEMETERY 
Devoted to Art Out-of-Doors, — Parks, Ceme- 
teries, Town and Village Improvements. 
grow a tree. Let us all encourage the movement 
as one of the most beneficent of modern ideas, full 
of great promise. 
R. J. HAIGHT, Publisher, 
334 Dearborn Street, CHICAGO 
R. J. HAIGHT, 
JOHN W. WESTON, C. E., 
Editors. 
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Vol. VIII. CHICAGO, APRIL, 1898. No. 2. 
CON TENTS. 
EDITORIAL-Arbor Day— Apathy of Cemetery Officials— 
The Press as a Power in City Embellishment 23 
TREE PLANTING- IIS NECESSITY AND BENEFITS 24 
"RESIDENCE STREETS, VIII 25 
"WATER LILIES— WHEN AND HOW TO GROW THEM 27 
"THE SUNKEN FLOWER BED AND ORIENTAL PLANES, 
FAIRMOUNT PARK, PHILADELPHIA 28 
"DESIGN FOR THE LAYING OUT OF A SMALL CEMETERY 2 9 
THE CARE OF LAWNS 3o 
PERPETUAL CARE OF CEMETERIES 3i 
•THE NEW NURSERIES OF THE CITY OF PARIS 32 
ARBOR DAY EXERCISES, HERE AND THERE 33 
"GARDEN PLANTS— THEIR GEOGRAPHY, XXVIII 35 
PARK NOTES 36 
CEMETERY NOTES— REPORTS 37 
CONTRIBUTED CRITICISM..... 37 
TREES FOR NARROW BORDERS 38 
PUBLISHER’S DEPARTMENT . 38 
CORRESPONDENCE 39 
"Illustrated. 
T HE matter of greatest interest for the month 
is “Arbor Day,” for which a number of the 
states, by their governors, issue proclama- 
tions respecting its import, and enjoining observ- 
ance. From many points of view, there is no more 
important movement in the country than that of im- 
parting a true understanding of the value of tree 
culture, both on economic and ethical grounds. 
And Arbor Day, as now suggested, includes more 
than the mere planting of trees; the exercises con- 
nected therewith, and which are becoming yearly 
more diffused, include educational features, which 
while partaking of physical pleasure, include very 
much that is bound to be uplifting and stimulating, 
and in the direct line of culture of the people. 
Moreover, the main effort is directed to the young, 
in whose minds the knowledge of the great truths 
of nature must react to the welfare of their own and 
Ml future generations, It takes the universe to 
I T is unfortunate that the progressive movement 
so manifest in the management of many of our 
larger cemeteries should be so comparatively 
sluggish in the majority of cases. We hear so con- 
stantly from superintendents of the difficulty they 
have in securing the active co operation of their 
governing officials. It is to be feared, with all due 
deference to the aforesaid officials, that the indif- 
ference is due to apathy, and this apathy to lack of 
education or knowledge of the means of progress, 
and the progress itself as exhibited elsewhere. 
Knowledge cannot be attained without effort, and 
it cannot be obtained without material in the way 
of literature from which to glean it. Cemetery offi- 
cials, with any business tact, can not but see that it 
is to their interest to not only secure the current 
literature devoted to the development of their prop- 
erties, but should exercise their power and intelli- 
gence to the end that their superintendent and 
other active workers should have every opportun- 
ity to keep up with the times, and they should ap- 
propriate the means to subscribe for the literature to 
secure that desideratum. 
M R. CHARLES DE KAY, the well-known art 
critic of New York, has in a recent issue of 
Harper's Weekly pointedly drawn attention 
to some of the weak points in our efforts at city art 
embellishment. He further made an excellent sug- 
gestion that the press of the country take the mat- 
ter up seriously, and work harmoniously to the end 
of securing funds as an endowment, upon which 
art leagues, and other active principles in city 
adornment, might devote their entire energies to the 
work upon which they were founded, relieved of 
the financial features, which have always been a 
stumbling block. The press has worked such won- 
ders in civilizing the world and enriching it, that it 
would seem but another channel into which it might 
divert a share of its force to a good end. We need 
a sustained energy in the direction of building up 
our native art talent, and our art culture generally, 
and there is no such constant force upon which we 
can draw for stimulus as the press. 
