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, OCTOBER, 1898. No. 8. 
CONTENTS. 
EDITORIAL— CEMETERY MEMORIALS — FORMAL GARDENING — 
THE BOULDER MONUMENT IN NEW JERSEY- MONUMENTS FOR 
BOTANISTS AND HORTICU l.TURISTS — MAUI OLEUMS I 4 I 
SOME DIFFICULTIES OF THE PARK SUPERINTENDENT 143 
THE DUTIES OF PARK COMMISSIONERS i 4 3 
ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS, KEW, ENGLAND, VI 145 
'CHARLES EVANS CEMETERY, READING, PA 146 
*A PLANTING CHART FOR GARD 1 -N PLANTS, II 148 
WHITE ROSES FOR THE CEMETERY 150 
TWO NATIVE UMBELLWORTS 151 
'RECEIVING VAULTS FOR SMALL CEMETERIES. 152 
WHAT DO YOU DO WITH YOUR LEAVES - 153 
'GARDEN PLANTS-THEIR GEOGRAPHY, XXXIV 153 
PARK NOTES 156 
CEMETERY NOTES 1 57 
CORRESPONDENCE 158 
SELECTED NOTES AND EXTRACTS 1S9 
PUBLISHER’S DEPARTMENT 160 
'Illustrated. 
M ANY times in the past this journal has drawn 
attention to the broader fields of cemetery 
memorials, in which something more than 
the mere selfish idea involved in the family 
sarcophagus, shaft or kindred monument, asserts 
itself. The thought is emphasized and returns 
with stronger conviction each time the record of 
such a memorial is noted. It is gratifying to read 
of the increasing number of gifts being made to 
cemeteries here and there over the country ; gifts 
that, while adding to the attractive features of the 
cemetery, serve in far more than an ordinary sense 
the effect of a memorial. In the landscape plan of 
laying out cemeteries, where lawns and shrubbery 
and trees combine with gracefully winding and 
well kept roads to create scenic effects of surpassing 
beauty on every hand, an excess of monuments 
must tend to mar the prospect, and it is desirable 
to limit the monumental display so far as is com- 
patible with the desires of those immediately inter- 
ested. This may in a large measure be obviated 
by recourse to other forms of memorials, and in this 
connection a fine tree is an interestsng object. 
And if such a memorial is to be judged by the 
amount of money expended, a fine tree, transported 
and transplanted, may be made very costly, ac- 
cording to its size and rarity. In other directions, 
excellent, appropriate and useful memorials may 
consist of entrances, fountains, shelter houses, 
chapels, and in fact nearly every accessory that 
serves to lead to a cemetery fulfilling its purposes 
under every aspect that its location, condition and 
destiny may suggest. 
W HILE formal gardening will probably al- 
ways have its admirers, the contrast be- 
tween this style of floriculture and that 
which makes its flower beds to blend with the 
landscape and add a tone to the picture, must be 
more satisfying to the cultivated taste. Moreover, 
it offers so much greater opportunity for variety in 
its effects in relation to the landscape, and its 
season may be readily prolonged by the exercise 
of horticultural knowledge. One of the latest 
practical demonstrations of this fact is that witnessed 
in Washington Park, Chicago, which in former 
years was noted for its “curiosities” in flower 
beds. With the completion of the fine conservatory 
and the rearrangement of the adjacent grounds, the 
formal gardening has given place to flower beds 
laid out to harmonize with and emphasize the 
lawns and shrubberies, and the balanced effects are 
instriking contrast to the heterogeneous nondescripts 
which once occupied the grounds and obtruded their 
bizarre formalities. However, it must be admitted 
that formal gardening, with its eccentricities in de- 
sign, finds great favor with those less endowed from 
an educational standpoint, and especially with 
children; so that this would seem to be a valid 
reason for its continued existence. Nevertheless, 
in our landscape parks it should not occupy a po- 
sition that will detract from the harmonious rela- 
tions of the surrounding scenery, and yet it should 
be so arranged as to be readily accessible and 
attractive to those to whom it may serve as an inspi- 
ration to higher thiiags. From an educational stand- 
point in the practice grounds, formal gardening 
must also be credited with a more or less useful 
purpose, in that it affords opportunities of testing 
what may be done in the way of training and cut- 
ting flowering and foliage plants to carry out color 
and figure designs. This leads to the propagation 
and breeding of plants to obtain these results and 
is in that way a valuable field of study and practice. 
T HE decision of certain New Jersey cemetery 
officials to refuse admission to a boulder monu- 
ment is a. questionable proceeding, inasmuch as 
