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. 
Subsor'ption $1.00 a Year in Advance. Foreign Subscription $1.25. 
VOL. VIII. CHICAGO, JUNE, 1898. No. 4. 
CONTENTS. 
EDITORIAL— THK MINNEAPOLIS CONVENTION OF THE PARK AND 
OUT-DOOR ART ASSOCIATION — SITE OF THE NEW YORK 
SOLDIERS' MONUMENT— THE NATIONAL SCULPTURE SOCIETY’S 
EXHIBITION 
A MODEL PLAYGROUND 
HORTICULTURAL NOTES 
♦RESIDENCE STREETS, X 
LEGAL 
♦DEVIL'S DEN, GETTYSBURG 
•THE NATIONAL SCULPTURE SOCIETY EXHIBITION.... 
*ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, KEW, II C. 
♦GARDEN PLANTS-THEIR GEOGRAPHY, XXX .: 
PREPARING OF GROUND FOR PLANTING TREES 
•MONUMENTS AND PARKS OF BRUSSELS 
PARK NOTES 
CEMETERY NOTES 
CORRESPONDENCE 
PUBLISHER’S DEPARTMENT 
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T HE completed program for the meeting of the 
Park and Out-Door Art Association, Min- 
neapolis, Minn., Jund 22-24, inclusive, is 
ju it to hand. It does not differ materially from the 
preliminary announcement given in our May issue, 
but it certainly emphasizes the breadth of the field 
covered by the title of the association, and to a still 
greater degree its relation to the higher necessities 
of our civilization both as regards the community 
and the home. This meeting will bring together 
the foremost landscape architect-gardeners in the 
country, which fact will give the discussions an 
authoritative importance, and the suggestions in- 
volved, a practical value with far reaching influence. 
Minneapolis has always been noted for the activity 
in good works of its women, and it is not surpris- 
ing, therefore to find a most important section, oc- 
cupying an evening, devoted to the school, the 
home and the children, under the charge of the 
adies. That out-door art should now be acknow- 
ledged to exercise so important an influence on 
child-life manifestly suggests valuable results for 
the work of the association on the next generation 
as well as this. The beneficent results which are 
promised inspire the fervent hope that no effect may 
be spared to impress upon the public the great im- 
portance of an understanding of the value of out- 
door improvements, so as to arouse an active in- 
terest in helping to carry into effect the well 
digested reforms suggested from time to time. 
A MONG the first acts of the new Art Commis- 
sion of New York City js to informally 
recommend Mount Tom, overlooking River- 
side Park, as the site for the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ 
Memorial. This old landmark is a great mass of 
rock, situated about two miles south of the Grant 
Monument, and on which the quarrymen’s eyes have 
often been set with great longing. Properly treated 
it will be a commanding site, and it is to be ex- 
pected that a design will be forthcoming that will 
be appropriate, dignified and artistic, befitting the 
cause and the location. The question of site for the 
New York soldiers’ monument has been a subject 
of quite acrimonious controversy, not by any 
means in the spirit with which such a public matter 
should be considered. But it has had a most benefi- 
cial effect on the public sentiment. It has displayed 
the weakness of some functions in which the people 
have been wont to place implicit confidence; it has 
shown how blind personal interests may make other- 
wise public spirited men, and public officials, with 
axes to grind. It has clearly demonstrated the 
necessity of placing all undertakingsof the nature of 
artistic embellisnment of a city in the hands of men 
trained in art, free from the “insolence of office,” 
and wlro:e lives have been spent in the study and 
practice of art, and who if they should err at all in 
judgment, will ere from excess of zeal in the cause 
and not from the prospective “material” that is in 
it. 
T HE exhibition of sculpture by the National 
Sculpture Society, just closed in New York 
City, marks a decided stride in the develop- 
ment of sculptural art in this country, and strongly 
emphasizes the vigor underlying untrammeled genius 
when time is ripe or opportunities offer for the 
unfolding. Of the exhibitions previously held by 
