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. 
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VOL. VIII. CHICAGO, SEPT’BR, 1898. No. 7. 
CONTENTS. 
EDITORIAL— THE TWELFTH ANNUAL CONVENTION OF THE A. A. 
C. S.— FUNERAL REFORM — IMPROVE THE SCHOOLYARD— THE 
STATUS OF THE LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT 121, 122 
"ANNUAL CONVENTION OF THE CEMETERY SUPERIN- 
TENDENT’S ASSOCIATION i 2 3 
OUR ASSOCIATION-ITS OBJECT AND WHAT HAS BEEN 
ACCOMPLISHED 127 
WHY NEW CEMETERIES SHOULD ADOPT THE LAWN 
PLAN 128 
'THE HENRY GEORGE MONUMENT, GREENWOOD CEME- 
TERY, BROOKLYN, NEW YORK 129 
♦IRIS VERSICOLOR AND ITS NEIGHBORS ABOUT THE 
POND... 130 
♦SCENE IN FAIRMOUNT PARK, RENOVATING OLD 
TREES, ETC.. i3i 
♦GARDEN PLANTS— THEIR GEOGRAPHY, XXXIII 132 
ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, KEW, SURREY, ENGLAND, i3 4 
PARK NOTES 136 
CEMETERY NOTES 1.37 
‘SOME SPECIMEN TREES AND SHRUBS i38 
CORRESPONDENCE i3g 
SELECTED NOTES AND EXTRACTS 140 
PUBLISHER’S DEPARTMENT 141 
♦Illustrated. 
T HE Twelfth Annual Convention of the Asso- 
ciation of American Cemetery Superintend- 
ents, held at Omaha this month, and of which 
a full report is given in other columns, had its own 
particular significance and value, besides its pro- 
gressive fulfillment of the aims and purposes of its 
organization. Mr. O. C. Simonds in opening his 
paper on “Our Association — Its Objects, etc.,” 
stated that object to be education, and a review of 
its yearly work clearly shows decided progress in 
that direction. The efforts of the earnest men in 
the calling, realizing what association truly means 
— interchange of experience, discussion of possible 
improvements either in office, management, or on 
the grounds, opportunities of inspecting the ceme- 
teries of fellow members under the most favorable 
circumstances, and mutual acquaintance, implant- 
ing a personal factor in the rivalry of effort to secure 
the best results — foresaw that education in a most 
practical form would result. Several lessons were 
quite clearly suggested in the course of the meet- 
ing, one of which and a most important one, as re- 
gards the development of the cemetery, was that 
cemetery superintendents should cultivate a sense 
of the beautiful. This might appear to pertain too 
much to the domain of the ideal in the eyes of the 
ordinary practical superintendent, but that would 
be the wrong inference to draw. The landscape 
gardener must possess that sense to a greater or less 
degree to pretend to assume the title. The very 
term suggests the possession of that faculty, and 
just so far as a superintendent is imbued with, or 
develops, that sense in the course of his work, just 
so refined and beautiful will be the creations of his 
intelligence in his landscape effects Study nature 
closely, drink deeply of the knowledge which she 
offers to the student, and imitate in a certain sense 
such of her efforts as will be most desirable for the 
situations it is proposed to improve. 
* * * 
Another important suggestion is the value of 
enlisting the interest of people not connected with 
cemetery affairs, with the endeavor to induce them 
to attend the meetings. At several of the conven- 
tions of recent years the interest added to the an 
nual gatherings by the presence and practical help 
of outside people of education and experience has 
been most pronounced. The woiic of the cemetery 
superintendent in many respects calls for some of 
the experience and knowledge of other callings, 
professional and commercial, and it is a matter, de- 
cidedly educational, while at the same time frater- 
nal, to cultivate and extend the courtesies of the as- 
sociation on opportune occasions. It is reciprocal 
in its effects too; for the work of the superintendents 
will naturally become better appreciated, the know- 
ledge being disseminated by intelligent and sym- 
pathetic workers in other lines of usefulness, and re- 
spect and reverence for the cemetery will ultimately 
supplant the carelessness which now marks so many 
localities. 
F UNERAL reform is rapidly taking practical 
shape. Its advocacy is finding apostles 
among the most prominent of church dig- 
nitaries, and it is matter of comment how much 
there is now found in its present practice to con- 
demn, not only on account of the immorality of 
ostentatious parade, the undue expenditures by 
those of moderate means, the inconveniences and 
