PARK AND CEMETERY. 
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VOL. VIII. CHICAGO, AUGUST, 1898. No. 6. 
CONTENTS. 
EDITORIAL— OMAHA CONVENTION of the a. a. c. s.— nature 
STUDY— SUGGESTIONS TO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETIES— THE 
RECONSTRUCTION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA 101- 
"RESIDENCE STREETS, XII 103 
'OH I’-DOOR ART AND WORKINGMEN’S HOMES 104 
*THE MACKAY MAUSOLEUM GREENWOOD CEMETERY, 
BROOKLY ~l 106 
"EVERGREEN HYBRIDS OF ROSA WICHURIANA 108 
BICYCLING IN THE CEMETERY 109 
A PLANTING CHART OF GARDEN PLANTS, II ii c 
ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, KEW, ENGLAND in 
"GARDEN PLANTS-'I'HEIR GEOGRAPHY, XXXII 112 
CEMETERIES OF USE TO I'HE LIVING ii4 
PARK NOTES 116 
CEMETERY NOTES n 7 
CORRESPONDENCE - LEGAL 11S 
SELECTED NOTES AND EXTRACTS 119 
PUBLISHER’S DEPARTMENT 20 
"Illustrated. 
N EXT month will witness the Annual Conven- 
tion of the Association of American Ceme- 
tery Superintendents, which this year is to 
be held in Omaha, Neb., the city of the Trans- 
Mississippi Exposition. In the publisher’s column 
of this issue will be found important notices in con- 
nection with the meeting. That the Exposition 
City should have been selected for the occasion, is 
in many respects fortunate, it adds very great in- 
terest to the convention; there is much to be seen 
of an educational nature to the superintendent, and 
much of general value not available under other 
circumstances, and it contributes to the pleasure of 
the trip in no uncertain way. The reduced railway 
rates to Omaha is an inducement not to be over- 
looked, and taking all the features of the case into 
consideration, with the splendid program of instruct- 
ive papers and discussions provided, cemetery 
“R 1 
ELATIONSHIP with nature is a source of 
inexhaustible delight and enchantment. 
To establish it ought to be as much apart 
of every education as the teaching of formal know- 
ledge, and it ought to be as great a reproach to a 
man not to be able to read the open pages of the 
world about him as not to be able to read the open 
book before him.” Thus writes Hamilton Wright 
Mabie, and the truth is accepted and emphazized 
by the rapidly expanding effort to make Nature 
study an essential part of our common school edu- 
cation. It is accentuated in our own line of work 
by the rapid development of the projects for estab- 
lishing more small parks in our crowded cities, and 
of the plans for planting out the school yards. It 
is in a measure an anomaly that the country school 
boy or girl needs such education as well as those of 
the city, so that the school garden is a general ne- 
cessity in a broad sense. The enlightened nations 
of Europe have for some years past recognized the 
value of the school garden as an educational feature, 
and with the growing appreciation of its value, we 
may be sure of its early and permanent establish- 
ment in our own great country. With the adequate 
establishment of small parks and school gardens in 
our cities, and that of park reservations and school 
gardens in the country places, art out-of-doors will 
receive an impetus which will carry the cause closer 
and closer to the home, and make the way easier to 
avoid the penalty conveyed in Mr. Mabie’s words. 
I T is gratifying to note that the Horticultural so- 
cieties of the country are broadening the scope 
of their work, and including allied subjects in 
the programs arranged for their annual meetings. 
It is well for them so to do; it enlarges their field 
of usefulness and opens up avenues of progress alike 
beneficial to them in their association capacity, as 
to the public which is finally benefited by their dis- 
cussions and practice. In the domain of landscape 
art, or art out-of-doors as it is becoming familiarly 
