PARK AND CEMETERY. 
POR,nERLY THE /AODERN CEnETER'i'. 
A Monthly Jouroal Devoted to Parks and Cemeteries. 
R. J. HAIGHX, Rublishier, 
334 Dearborn Street, CHICAGO. 
Subscription $i.oo a Year in Advance. Foreign Subscription $1.52 
VoL. V, CHICAGO, DECEMBER, 1895. No. 10. 
CONTENTS. 
EDITORIAL 163 
PRACTICAL WORK IN THE CEMETERY 164 
LICHEN AND MOSSES i 65 
■’■TREES IN TOWER GROVE PARK, SI'. LOUIS, MO 166 
'GARDEN PLANTS-THEIR GEOGRAPHY II 16S 
'THE GREENWOOD CEMETERY, BROOKLYN 170 
*SCULPTURED MONUMENTS OF PHILADELPHIA 172 
'NOTES ON ENGLISH PARKS i 74 
CITY PARKS 175 
PARK NOTES 177 
CEMETERY NOTES i 7 fi 
CORRESPONDENCE-CEVIETERY REPORTS 179 
SEASONABLE HINTS -PUBLISHER'S DEPARTMENT 180 
'Illustrated. 
Q uite an oversight in our park management, 
generally speaking, is that in regard to not 
labelling the trees, and as good a time as 
any to undertake the work is the winter. Most of 
the parks of the country contain many varieties of 
trees, with numbers of fine specimens, which would 
be object lessons to young and old, were it but 
possible to associate the physical characteristics 
displayed with the name and class. And this is es- 
pecially desirable for city children. Country children 
grow up among trees; they are familiar with their 
properties and uses from very early days, and gradu- 
ally and naturally absorb a knowledge of wood- 
craft incomprehensible to their city brethren. And 
the knowledge of trees and tree life is of far more 
value from an educational standpoint than is real- 
ized, and is becoming more so year by year. The 
little botany acquired in the public school could be 
made of permanent value reinforced by practical 
illustrations in the parks, and it is unquestionably 
of great importance that park commissioners every- 
where should niake it a special duty to permanently, 
plainly and lucidly label the trees under their care 
by virtue of their office. Give the boys and girls 
an additional interest in the parks by making them 
educational while truly recreative. 
T he Secretary of War has suggested in his 
annual report that Congress should adopt a 
fixed policy in regard to battle-field parks, 
for if the plan of creating military parks is to be 
carried out on the scale of Gettysburg and Chicka- 
mauga, some fifty places would present themselves 
fur treatment involving an enormous outlay. It is 
true that while the li beral policy of the government, 
as displayed at the above named fields, has devel- 
oped agitation favoring extension of the scheme to 
other important battle-fields of the civil war, it may 
also be predicted that the good sense of Congress will 
not be carried away into extravagance in this direc- 
tion. In every battle-field is centered a vast amount 
of general and particular interest, due to causes 
readily understood, and it is natural to expect that 
particular interests will be very active toward dis- 
tinguishing particular fields; y6t to meet every case 
would not only detract from the value of the original 
design, but would involve so great an expenditure 
as to invite serious opposition and a possible obsta- 
cle to the proper completion of the work already 
under way. The question of partiality does not 
enter into the matter; the idea now being worked 
out is to preserve for future generations such mili- 
tary object lessons of the great contest as not only 
present lessons of military strategy, but pivotal 
points in the history of that contest by which the 
great historical features may be more readily core- 
lated. It may be truly said that no amount of ex- 
pense is too great to establish history, but there is a 
point even in this beyond which it will be unwise 
and unnecessary to go. 
I T is very gratifying to note the steady increase 
in the number of memorial gifts to our ceme- 
teries. This journal has frequently felt called 
upon to suggest that cemetery memorials need not 
be confined to the conventional mortuary monument, 
but could find a more Christian-like expression iri 
some form, which, while dedicated to the memory 
of the dead might be of service to the living, thus 
giving a broader field to the sentiment conveyed by 
the memorial. Many forms of useful adjuncts to 
the cemetery have been suggested, that would fit- 
tingly serve the purpose, but donations of money 
for improvements and perpetual care have not been 
given the attention the beneficence warrants. Some 
