PARK AND CEMETERY. 
rORnERLV THE /MODERN CE/nETER'i'. 
A Monthly Journal Devoted to Parks and Cemeteries. 
R. J. HAIQHT, RublisEier, 
334 Deapborn Street, CHICAGO. 
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CONTENTS. 
EDITORIAL 145 
GRADING 146 
CEMETERY LAW FOR OKLAHOMA-HOW TO PLANT.... 
'GARDEN PLANTS-THEIR GEOGRAPHY i 48 
Premature burial 149 
'WALNUT HILLS CEMETERY. BROOKLINE, MASS 150 
'SCULPTURED MONUMENTS OF PHILADELPHIA i 5 * 
*A pretty cemetery in ENGLAND 1,4 
♦REFECTORY BUILDING. FRANKLIN PARK, BOSTON 
HORTICULTURAL EDUCATION, PRACTICE AND 
THEORY 15s 
TREES 157 
GUILD OF KEW GARDENERS -'AN ITALIAN MONUMENT 158 
PARK NOTES 159 
CEMETERY NOTES ) 6 a 
♦CEMETERY ACCOUNTING IV-OBITUARY ,6t 
PUBLISHER'S DEPARTMENT ,62 
♦Illustrated. 
O N another page will be found the first of a 
series of articles on plants and flowers, under 
the title of “Garden Plants — Their Geo- 
graphy” which it is hoped will be of great interest 
and manifest advantage to readers of Park and 
Cemetery. The creation of botanical gardens at 
many points of our broad country will not only have 
a tendency to increase the general knowledge of 
plant life by their existence in our midst, but will in- 
fuse a desire to know more about them, with a view 
to utilizing the countless effects which may be real- 
ized by their judicious use wherever plants are re- 
quired for either usefulness or beauty. These arti- 
cles are not intended to be botanical in anything 
but the sequences; they are designed to impart a 
better understanding ofthe geography, care required 
.and classification of plants and plant life. Mr. James 
McPherson, the writer, is thoroughly well acquaint- 
ed with the methods and system pursued at the 
Royal Gardens of Kew, of which the world is greatly 
indebted for its advanced position in botanical 
knowledge and rese3rch . This series of articles 
is the outcome of the suggestions contained in Mr. 
Simond’s address to the members of the Association 
of American Cemetery Superintendents at the Rich- 
mond, Va. , convention. 
T HP: appointment by . Mayor Strong of New 
York, of Mr. William A. Stiles, editor of 
Garden and Forest, as one of the new Board 
of Park Commissioners, should redound to the bene- 
fit of the park system of that city and is a step in the 
right direction — that of appointing for public ser- 
vice, men experienced in the service required. The 
park system of New York is growing to be of such 
magnitude and with so many features requiring a 
high order of management and knowledge, that it 
becomes absolutely necessary on the part of the 
appointive power to weigh very carefully the qual- 
ifications of the appointees. Mr. Stiles, in sundry 
interviews rightly states that parks, while being of 
present use and benefit, necessitate judgment and 
forethought in their control, as generations to come 
will also be interested in what is done to day and 
will judge accordingly. In the work connected 
with the establishment of the Botanical Park, the 
highest professional skill and knowledge will be re- 
quired, and it is quite necessary that the commis- 
sioners should be men equal to the duty of direct- 
ing that skill. 
O NE of the most difficult of all the problems 
connected with statues in public parks and 
other places is that of selection; and that 
especially when a statue is offered as a benefaction. 
This should not be and would not be now, if the 
decision as to value, appropriateness, availability and 
site had been in competent hands. The realization 
of the truth of this is rapidly dawning upon the 
community. Were the public statuary already 
placed of a generally worthy character and artisti- 
cally good, public taste would have been thus far 
advanced, and possible benefactors could under- 
stand more or less positively what would really be 
acceptable and be a credit to the people they desire 
to serve as well as to themselves. The absolute 
necessity of some competent board or committee to 
pass upon works of art for our public places has 
made itself most conspicuously apparent in, it may 
be said, all our large cities, and the prospect of im- 
mediate donations of costly works should excite our 
communities to immediate action, so that our statu- 
ary in the future should not make our art gropings 
of today the laughing stock of future generations. It 
is a matter of greater importance than is generally 
understood, for art is educational and elevating, 
and should receive that refined consideration which 
it demands and which is its due. 
