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, NOV’MB’R, 1898. No. 9. 
CONTENTS. 
EDITORIAL— TELLING MEMORIALS — IDEAL SURROUNDINGS— THE 
NURSERY PLOT— EARTH BURIAL— ART COMMISSIONS 161-162 
BEAUTIFUL FALL FOLIAGE i63 
THE CHRYSANTHEMUMS IN CHICAGO 164 
'RIVERSIDE CEMETERY, ROCHESTER, N. Y 166 
"KENEY PARK, HARTFORD, CONN 168 
-NATIONAL CEMETERY, ARLINGTON, VT 170 
•SPECIMEN TREES AND SHRUBS 172 
-ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS, KEW, ENGLAND, VII 174 
TREE PLAN'I ING ON PUBLIC STREETS 176 
-CLEMATIS PANICULATA-A CALADIUM BLOSSOM - 
VINCA MAJOR 178 
-GARDEN PLANTS-THEIR GEOGRAPHY, XXXV 179 
EARLY FLOWERING BULBOUS AND TUBEROUS PLANTS 182 
CREMATION i83 
PARK NOTES 184 
CEMETERY NOTES i85 
CORRESPONDENCE 186 
SELECTED NOTES AND EXTRACTS 187 
PUBLISHER’S DEPARTMENT 18S 
'-Illustrated. 
C ^ PEAKING of memorials that serve two great 
purposes at one and the same time, the gift 
to the Boston Public Library of a splendid 
collection of books on Landscape Gardening, pre- 
sented by Mr. and Mrs. James M. Codman, of Bos- 
ton, in memory of their sons Henry Sargent, and 
Philip Codman, landscape architects, deserves no- 
tice. The deaths of these men in the prime of prom- 
ising careers were widely lamented, and to pre- 
serve their memories in a public manner in con- 
nection with their work, and at the same time bene- 
fit their fellow man in a marked degree, the sor- 
rowing parents have made this valuable gift to the 
public library. It has been given the name of 
the Codman collection, and comprises a large 
number of works in many languages on landscape 
gardening and allied topics, and some few on other 
subjects. 
S OMETIMES we dream of ideal surroundings, 
the home lot planted in such a manner as to 
inspire a sense of rest and comfort of endur- 
ing degree, and of such a quality that it presents a 
new picture at every change of light or season. We 
awake to note that the ideal is far from apparent, 
and yet the opportunities are awaiting our activities 
on every hand. There is, though, much to do on 
all sides to make things ready for the final touches 
required to complete the picture. It is, however, 
gratifying to realize that there is a widespread 
awakening looking to improvement in the external 
conditions of our dwelling places. Improvement 
societies are springing up broadcast, charged with 
some specific object or another, and sometimes with 
many, to clean, restore, improve and make better 
existing conditions which being improved shall re- 
dound a hundred-fold to the attaiment of better and 
more pleasurable living. Most of this work, pre- 
sent and prospective, is not immediately connected 
with the home lot, and yet should be accomplished 
in the general interest, and then when trees are 
planted, roads and alleys cleaned, garbage taken 
care of, unsightly objects removed and repairs made 
to secure a pleasant outlook, let our Improvement 
Societies take a hand in helping to improve the 
home lots of the community. It has been found 
that prejudice against interference by neighbors or 
neighborly associations is easy of removal when the 
object of that interference is known to be that of 
kindly interest, giving promise of worthy results. 
A very small percentage of property owners have 
any practical knowledge of how to plant their home 
grounds, be their extent great or small, — a stroll 
through the residence streets of any community will 
verify this. Here then is a suggestion to the Vil- 
lage Improvement Society, to institute a campaign: 
of invitation to its citizens to join in the effort to 
improve the home grounds; of instruction to give 
advice and assistance to produce satisfactory results; 
and of solid help to secure the improvements where 
the means are inadequate to engage in such work. 
This is the age of mutual help and broad benevolent 
effort, and in the line suggested would tend to cre- 
ate one of the most beneficent reforms of the day — 
ideal surroundings for the home. 
T HERE is no question nowadays as to the ad- 
visability of establishing a nursery plot in 
cemeteries of any area or importance. Park 
authorities everywhere have early recognized the 
necessity of such an adjunct to their grounds, the 
work of maintenance and progressive improvement 
would actually be hampered by the lack of so im- 
portant a feature of management. In a degree the 
same broad statement will apply to the cemetery. 
