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. 
Subscription $1.00 a Year in Advance. Foreign Subscription $1.25. 
Vol. VIII. CHICAGO, MAY, 1898. No. 3. 
CONTENTS. 
EDITORIAL— SECOND ANNUAL meeting of the park and 
OUT-DOOR ART ASSOCIATION— THE OBSERVANCE OF DECORA- 
TION DAY -WANTED!, A NAVAL CEMETERY IN FLORIDA 41 
THE PARKS AND OUT DOOR ART ASSOCIATION— TREES 
RECOMMENDED BY THE INDIANA HORTICULTURAL 
SOCIETY 4 2 
♦RESIDENCE STREETS, IX 42 
♦THE COLES MONUMENT, NEWARK, N. J. -TREES IN 
STREETS AND ELSEWHERE 44 
♦THE LAUREL OAK, QUERCUS I MBRICARIA 46 
SEASONABLE HINTS 47 
♦ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, KEW 47 
♦THE MORTUARY CHAMBERS, MUNICH, GERMANY 50 
♦GARDEN PLANTS-THEIR GEOGRAPHY, XXIX 52 
RURAL CEMETERIES— SUGGESTIONS FOR ORGANIZERS 54 
♦ELECTRIC FUNERAL CAR, SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF 56 
PARK NOTES 57 
CEMETERY NOTES-REPORTS 58 
PUBLISHER’S DEPARTMENT 60 
♦Illustrated. 
T HE second annual meeting of the Park and 
Outdoor Art Association, which is to be 
held at Minneapolis, Minn., June 22-24 
next, promises to be of unusual interest if one may 
judge by the preliminary announcement given in 
another column. The movement is meeting with 
the success it deserves, and promises to be one of 
the most potent factors of this generation in bring- 
ing about improved material conditions pertaining 
to home and community surroundings, than which 
nothing is more conducive to the moral and physi- 
cal health of the people. The program contains 
some excellent papers, besides which the parks, 
boulevards and beautiful scenery of the locality, to 
say nothing of the hospitality of the citizens, all 
promise a delightful and instructive time to those 
fortunate enough to attend the meeting. 
N OTHING more is wanting to prove the de- 
sirability of more public holidays than the 
abuse of such holidays as are now enjoyed. 
Especially at time of writing do we call to mind 
Memorial Day now close at hand. When this day 
was first instituted it was for the sole purpose of 
paying homage to the memory of those who fell for 
their country in the war of the Rebellion, by mak- 
ing a pilgrimage to their graves and in the course 
of solemn exercises to decorate them with flowers. 
This is yet done year by year, with perhaps increas- 
ing public interest. But, the solemnity of the day, 
with its hallowed memories is being more and more 
degraded by association with sports and pastimes, 
carried to an excess utterly at variance with the 
higher obligations of the occasion. It is high time 
that an earnest effort should be made to restore to 
Decoration Day the high intention which created it, 
and to return to the simple and appropriate observ- 
ance of such exercises and recreative duties as the 
day warrants. There is no need to invest it with a 
rigid Puritanism, but let us enjoy its privileges in a 
quite and decorous manner, making it a day of 
healthful recreation to mind and body, such as its 
ordinance suggests; and let all who have authority 
lend themselves assiduously to discourage such an 
observance of the day as is involved in the promo- 
tion and carrying out of road races and kindred 
coarse sports now so common. Let us enjoy Dec- 
oration Day and profit by its memorial attributes. 
A RECENTLY published description of the bur- 
ial place of the remains of the victims of the 
“Maine” disaster, which were brought from 
Havana and interred at Key West, suggests the 
necessity of the government providing a decent 
cemetery in Florida for its naval or other heroes. It 
is evident that Key West with its present facilities 
is not the place, and at least the sentiment of the 
people, always right when appeals are made to its 
great heart, will not rest satisfied when it appre- 
ciates the situation, until Congress makes suitable 
and appropriate provision for the burial of such of 
its fallen heroes as may require or desire to be bur- 
ied by their country. So far as ‘ ‘Jack” is concerned, 
he has always been accustomed, so to speak, to a 
watery grave, but there are times, such as the catas- 
trophe in Havana harbor, and many other occasions, 
when to pay the respect we owe him, government 
cemeteries, under the best of care, should be avail- 
able for his final resting place. From all accounts 
the burial ground at Key West degrades the service 
which the American sailor has always so nobly ren- 
dered to his country. 
