PARK AND CEMETERY. 
rori/nERLY the /modern ce,'\eter'v. 
A Monthly Journal Devoted to Parks and Cemeteries. 
R. J. HAiaHX, Publisher, 
S34 Deapbopn Street, CHICAGO. 
Subscription $i.oo a Year in Advance. Foreign Subscription $1.25. 
VoL. V. CHICAGO, APRIL, 1895. No. 2. 
CONTENTS. 
EDITORIAL i9 
^JACKSON PARK, CHICAGO 20 
■'THE NATIONAL CEMETERY, VICKSBURG, MISS 22 
HOW TO MAKE AND CARE FOR A LAWN 24 
PUBLIC PARKS AND PLEASURE GROUNDS 2; 
♦OAK GROVE CEMETERY, BATH, ME 26 
PLANTING ON GRAVES 28 
♦GREENHOUSES-HOW TO BUILD. IV 29 
♦RIVERSIDE CEMETERY, NORRISTOWN, PA 3i 
REFORM IN THE USE OF BEDDING PLANTS 3i 
♦SALISBURY TOWER, INSTITUTE PARK, WORCESTER, 
MASS 32 
PARK NOTES 33 
CEMETERY NOTES ■.... 34 
CORRESPONDENCE 35 
CEMETERY REPORTS 35 
PUBLISHER'S DEPARTMEN'I' 36 
♦Illustrated. 
T he Michigan Chickamauga Monument Com- 
mission has selected designs, and awarded 
contracts, for the eleven monuments to com- 
memorate the part Michigan troops took in that 
campaign, and for which the state appropriated 
$20,000. This commission very wisely aimed to 
obtain designs, which, while being appropriate for 
the purpose and location, should be a departure 
from the stereotyped form of cemetery memorials. 
Of the several hundred designs submitted, but very 
few were appropriate for this very reason. This 
great National Park will be made or marred by the 
actions of the several State Commissions in the se- 
lection of memorials this Spring, and if the discrim- 
ination exercised by the Michigan Commission 
should be coincident with that of other like bodies, 
these memorials will not be the least of the many 
attractive features of the Park. 
I T is gratifying to note the increasing interest dis- 
played in the direction of taking up the ques- 
tion of the “grave-yard” or “burial ground,” 
among our smaller communities. It has often been 
asserted in these columns, that such interest once 
aroused, it would very soon attract all the funds 
and help necessary to make the village cemetery a 
source of pride, rather than what it generally is, a 
disgrace to the locality. • With the reviving of the 
proper and natural spirit, there must always exist 
feelings of reverence and of hallowed memories 
clustering about such resting places, and with due 
diligence and application, sentiment may be crystal- 
ized into effort, with the result that improvement 
organizations may be easily got into working 'order 
with the Cemetery as the main object. Such an ob- 
ject affords a varied and attractive field for labor, 
and yields abundant results. An attractive, well cared 
for cemetery gives a rating to the Community; it 
affords opportunites for the display of taste and 
knowledge in the acquisition and care of flowers, 
shrubs and trees. It creates opportunities for 
social amenities, and tends also to the cultivation 
of the higher attributes of mankind. With the ef- 
ficient help of the local press, whose assistance 
should be assiduously cultivated, an impetus may 
be given to the work, and the rural cemetery be 
made a delightful burial park and the pride of the 
community. 
T he Park Commissioners of our larger parks 
have no sinecure job on their hands, and the 
office is no empty honor. On the other hand 
the appointees must be qualified for the work, and 
should be selected with due regard to such qualifi- 
cations. Business routine and knowledge can be 
far more easily acquired than taste, which is in 
the nature of a gift and, though it may be more 
or less cultivated, is innate. In the care and 
development of our Park systems, the exercise 
of taste is always in order, and should be exercised 
to exclude all unsightliness and inappropriateness in 
the appurtenances connected with modern improve- 
ments as they present themselves for adoption. The 
cry comes from the East that one of the most beau- 
tiful parks is being marred by unsightly electric 
light poles and the network of wires, and that 
the choicest views are degraded by waterworks 
and electric light buildings. The current in the 
first place should be carried underground, and the 
buildings should be erected where they interfere 
the least with the landscape effects. Such dis- 
figurements are inexcusable in park practice. 
W HETHER statuary is an appropriate ad- 
dition to the adornment of a public park, 
is a question that admits of doubt, if the 
dictum of a certain New York daily be admitted as 
conclusive. In the circular distributed by the Nat- 
ional Sculpture Society announcing the forthcoming 
