PARK AND CEMETERY. 
POR/HERLY THE /AODERN CE/AETERY. 
A Monthly Journal Devoted to Parks and Cemeteries. 
R. J. HAIQHX, Rublisher, 
334- Dearborn Street, CHICAGO. 
Subscription $i,oo a Year in Advance. Foreign Subscription $1.25 
VoL. V. CHICAGO, JULY, 1895. ■ No. 5. 
CONTENTS. 
EDITORIAL 73 
A FEW WORDS FROM A LANDSCAPE GARDENER 74 
"BOTANIC GARDEN, rfUFFALO, N. Y 76 
NATURE VERSUS ART 77 
*A GREENLAND CEMETERY 78 
*THE BEDDING OF MONUMENTAL WORK 7 g 
KNOWING HOW 80 
♦ENTRANCE TO FOREST HILL CEMETERY, FREDON- 
lA, NEW YORK 81 
PROPAGATING RARE, HARDY PERENNIALS 81 
"GREENHOUSES-HOW TO BUILD. VII 82 
*A FLOWER BED AT GIRARD COLLEGE, PHILA 83 
"SOLDIER'S MEMORIAL, OAKWOOD CEMETERY, SYRA- 
CUSE, N. Y.-TAM-NA URICH 84 
NINTH ANNUAL CONVENTION, A. A. C. S 85 
POINTERS FOR CEMETERY OFFICL^LS 86 
PARK NOTES 87 
CEMETERY NOTES 88 
CORRESPONDENCE 89 
PUBLISHER'S DEPARTMEN'T go 
♦Illustrated. 
A dvocates of cremation in a Western city, 
who are contemplating the erection of a cre- 
matory, have adopted a novel plan for interesting 
stockholders, which if successful, will have fulfilled 
the two-fold purpose of securing a crematory and 
making converts to the cause. Each holder of one 
share of stock becomes entitled to incineration in 
due course. This may be like some insurance pol- 
icies. However, in the event of cremation becom- 
ing popular, the shareholders hope to realize divi- 
dends before surrendering to the inevitable. 
I N regard to cremation, public sentiment is un- 
doubtedly growing in its favor, and hitherto 
pronounced opponents are, slowly, it is true, modi- 
fiyng their antagonism. To those who can divert 
their minds from the customs of burial practiced by 
Christian people for so many centuries, the idea of 
cremation is not objectionable, and there are many 
arguments that can be arrayed in favor of such a 
disposition of our dead. In the leading cemeteries 
of several of the prominent cities and towns crema- 
tories have been introduced, and indications point 
to a time coming when they will form an essential 
feature of every modern cemetery. 
A n ordinance creating an Art Commission for 
the City of Baltimore was approved on June 
lOth last. By its provisions the Commission 
shall consist of the Mayor of the City, and seven 
others, respectively appointed by the Johns Hop- 
kins University, the Maryland Historical Society, 
the Peabody Institute, the Maryland Institute for 
the Promotion of the Mechanic Arts, the Architect- 
ural Club of Baltimore, the Park Commission and 
the Charcoal Club, all to serve without pay. The 
ordinance enacts that no statue, fountain, arch or 
gateway, monument or memorials of any kind shall 
be erected, nor any change be made in those al- 
ready existing, on any public property of the city, 
unless the matter shall have been approved by a 
majority of the commissioners and their report shall 
have been made to the city council. The commis- 
sion shall at the mayor’s request advise him on pub- 
lic buildings, bridges, etc. 
S INCE the park movement is establishing itself 
quite generally over the country, it is excep- 
tionally opportune to draw the attention of our 
smaller communities, not yet actively exercised in 
this direction, to the commercial aspect of the park 
question. There are to them two important sides 
to it: one the value of available property when no 
park is contemplated; the other the increased value 
of property when the park project is consummated. 
Experience distinctly dictates the advisability of all 
small towns taking advantage of their condition and 
securing or setting apart property for park purposes, 
while such is available and of comparatively small 
value. It is a fact that the moment it is generally 
known that the town is looking for a park site prop- 
erty values immediately rise, not only because the 
town wants it and is supposed to be able to pay a 
larger price for it, but because the value of prop- 
erty increases immensely about park sites every- 
where. All cities and towns possessing parks can 
attest to this. Parks and park systems are being 
recognized today as an absolute necessity to the 
welfare of our larger cities, in a certain relative 
proportion they are also necessary to our smaller 
towns. But apart from the necessity, be it great 
or small, a park is a first-class investment for any 
community, for besides the hygienic aspects it pays 
the town and pays its citizens in a commercial sense. 
