PARK AND CEMETERY 
AND 
LANDSCAPE 
GARDENING 
PUBLISHED BY ALLIED ARTS PUBLISHING COMPANY 
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H. C. WHITAKER, Vice-President and General Manager 
O. H. SAMPLE, Secretary-Treasurer 
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NOVEMBER, 1914 
EDITORIAL 
VOL. XXIV No. 9 
Enlightened Park Publicity 
The description on another page of the new souvenir book re- 
cently issued by the Park Board of Kansas City should be read 
by every park officer, for it offers a valuable lesson in enlight- 
ened park publicity. Instead of the customary elaborate annual 
report issued by many park boards, the Kansas City idea is to fur- 
nish a smaller but just as handsomely printed illustrated book that 
serves as a guide to the park system. A summary of the chief 
facts about each park and a brief description of each one is given 
in ready reference form, and with the numerous small illustra- 
tions the book presents in very interesting form a moving picture 
account of the park system. Detailed itineraries for one, two and 
three hour trips through the parks are also given as guides to 
visitors. This latter is a most useful feature, not only for strangers 
in the city, but for the home folks as well. It is astonishing how 
little actual knowledge of the parks the average citizen has, and 
this little book is destined to do a valuable work in getting the 
people more intimately acquainted with their parks. Every park 
superintendent should get one of these books and try to develop 
something of the kind for his own park system. 
The Complete Cemetery Landscape 
No more varied work in landscape gardening, landscape archi- 
tecture or landscape construction can be found than the develop- 
ment of the modern lawn plan cemetery. The problems of plant- 
ing to set off the memorials and buildings on the grounds ; the 
making of lawns; tree planting and ground covering; the de- 
velopment of landscape pictures that rival those of the parks and 
forests, make the work of the cemetery landscape achitect an all- 
round experience in developing land for both utility and beauty. 
The relation of the architectural features to the cemetery land- 
scape, and the harmonizing of the utilitarian structures with their 
environment, demand the highest attainment of the landscape 
architect and cemetery engineer. In last month’s and in this 
month’s issues of Park and Cemetery have appeared some un- 
usually helpful and authoritative discussions that embody in an 
unusual degree the fundamental principles underlying all of these 
various phases of landscape development. Mr. Currie’s “Monu- 
ments and Other Memorials,” Mr. Simonds’ “Ground Coverings,” 
in our last October issue, and Mr. Noyes’ “Pictures in Park Ceme- 
teries,” embody in effect a compendium of cemetery landscape 
development. These three addresses should be read and re-read 
and studied each in relation to the other by every progressive 
cemetery executive. 
National Park Work and Civic Advance 
The American Civic Association in sending out the notice of its 
annual convention calls forcible attention to the valiant work that 
must still be done to hold Niagara against the advances of com- 
mercial attack. The association is also pledged to the effort to 
secure a national parks service to make possible the largest ad- 
ministration and extension of our national recreation areas. The 
annual meeting of this organization is planned to be of much value 
to national park improvement and general civic advance. It will 
he held in Washington, D. C., December 2, 3' and 4. The tenth 
annual convention will be made a special anniversary occasion, 
with an unusually strong program. It is proposed to have this 
j year, as an incident of the celebration, an anniversary dinner on 
Heredity in 
Foresters of the United States are interested in the announce- 
ment recently made by the American Genetic Association that two 
prizes of $100 each have been offered for two photographs — one 
of the largest tree of nut-bearing variety in the United States, 
and one of the largest broad-leaf tree which does not bear edible 
| seeds. In the first class, for example, are included trees such as 
1 chestnut, oak, walnut, butternut and pecan ; and in the second, 
trees such as elm, birch, maple, cottonwood and tulip poplar. No 
photographs of cone-bearing trees are wanted, since it is definiteiy 
known that the California big trees have no rivals among conifers. 
At a later time the association may take up the same question as 
between the various kinds of conifers, as pines, spruces, firs, 
cedars and cypresses. 
The purpose of the competition, as stated by the association, is 
to find out in what regions the native trees attain their largest 
growth and under what conditions they thrive best. When these 
large trees are located and the measurements authenticated, the 
association hopes that it may be possible to secure seeds, cuttings 
Thursday, December 3rd, which shall be a brilliant affair in point 
of distinguished speakers and attendance. Special subjects for 
consideration in the program wifi be City and Town Planning; 
National Parks, Niagara Preservation, City and County Parks, 
Neighborhood Improvement, and kindred subjects. Suggestions 
for other subjects and proposals of competent speakers to present 
them are invited. In every way the next convention is to be a 
most notable one, from which shall go out a message of inspira- 
tion for achieving finer civic conditions in America, and for a 
larger and more zealous appreciation of our national possessions 
of scenic grandeur. 
Tree Culture 
or grafting wood from thrifty trees in the region where they 
grow, to see whether finer specimens may be propagated in other 
parts of the country. It is hoped in this manner to get some par- 
ticularly choice strains of native trees established in regions where 
good specimens are not now found. It is assumed by the associa- 
tion that seed from the region where the largest trees grow ought 
to produce larger and stronger trees than from regions where only 
small trees are found. By finding out where the large trees are 
anl then planting seeds from them in other locations, the associa- 
tion hopes to demonstrate the practical value to horticulture and 
forestry of the laws of heredity. The announced purpose 
of the Genetic Association is to bring about the dissemination of 
seed or stock of the best specimens, when found, to demonstrate, 
if possible, the value of heredity in tree growing. The contest 
for the $100 photographs is announced to end on July 1, 1915, on 
which date, says the secretary of the Genetic Association in Wash- 
ington, D. C., the offer will terminate. 
