PARK AND CEMETERY. 
rOR,nERL>' THE AXODERN CE/'\ETERY. 
A Monthly Journal Devoted to Parks and Cemeteries. 
R. J. HAIOHX, Rublishier, 
334 Deapbopn Street. CHICAGO. 
Subscription $i,oo a Year in Advance. Foreign Subscription $1.52 
VoL. V. CHICAGO, FEBRUARY, 1896. No 12. 
CONTENTS. 
liDlTORIAL i< 3 ) 
PRACTICAL WORK IN THE CEMETERY 200 
'CRAPO PARK, BURLINGTON, lA 201 
'TERRACE STEPS, LINCOLN PARK, CHICAGO 202 
*MOUNT ELLIOTT RECEIVING VAULT, DETROIT.-RE- 
SPECT FOR THE DEAD 20^ 
'GARDEN PLANTS’— THEIR GEOGRAPHY, IV 2 o 4 
STREET TREES 205 
'HIMALAYAN PINE— PUBLIC PARKS AND RESERVA'l IONS 206 
'EAST LINWOOD CEMETERY, BOONE. lA 208 
ARBORETUM, PUGET SOUND UNIVERSITY 209 
*AN ALGERIAN FOUNTAIN.— VELVETY LAWNS 210 
CROWDED CEMETERIES IN LONDON 211 
AUTHORITY TO DISINTER BODIES 212 
PARK NOTES 213 
CEMETERY NOTES 2u 
CORRESPONDENCE 2i5 
PUBLISHERS DEPARTMENT 216 
'Illustrated. 
F it be true that the character of a community 
may be judged from its cemeteries, the idea 
may^be easily extended to believe that besides 
the park, the cemetery can also be made an edu- 
cator. Nature has always been the source and in- 
spiration of higher life, for when man gets to un- 
derstand her, in ever so slight a degree, her very 
wealth of wonder leads him ever on and ever up- 
ward; and the perfection of landscape effects as pro- 
duced by those who, more or less, comprehend her 
laws of design and harmony, and such as are now 
being attempted in the modern cemetery idea, b^^ve 
an absolute tendency to inspire to higher thinking 
and purer reflection. We are only in the infancy of 
landscape work proper. For the most part in our 
northern latitudes, landscape designing has been 
mainly directed to summer effects, and it is only 
now practically dawning upon us that the other 
three seasons can be made to present beautiful 
pictures, as we learn to select those trees, shrubs and 
plants, which yielding their treasures of color and 
effect in the other seasons, in their turn, satisfy 
man’s wbrship of the beautiful at all times. 
S OM E excellent suggestions in relation to the 
care and improvement of small cemeteries 
were given in the presidents address at the an- 
nual convention of the Onondaga County, N. Y., 
Cemetery Association, and the results of the form- 
ation of this association already justifies its organ- 
ization. It is a melancholy fact that the majority 
of our rural and village cemeteries are in a sadly 
outrageous condition, displaying without question, 
positive neglect. It does seem strange, in a civil- 
ized community, and where it can be taken for 
granted that human grief is a sincere and permanent 
quantity, that it so soon loses its force in its relation 
to the cemetery wherein are deposited the remains 
of its object; and yet a little consideration offers a 
reason. What is everybody’s business is nobody’s, 
says the proverb, and from the fact that the care of 
ever so small a cemetery is too much for the indi- 
vidual, however devoted, the inference is that pres- 
ent conditions are due to a lack of organized effort, 
coupled with want of knowledge both of how to 
proceed, and how to take care of the cemetery when 
organization is effected. There are very few com- 
munities among whose members there could not be 
constituted a Board of Trustees, a Commission, 
Committee, or under whatever name a sufficient 
number of active and interested well wishers might 
not be gathered, and which would not have influ- 
ence enough to call forth the necessary assistance 
from others interested. And this could be accom- 
plished with very little red tape; indeed in many 
places the most active bodies at work in this reform 
movement are composed of women, organized for 
the special purpose of cemetery improvement and 
carrying on the work with the zeal and devotion 
characteristic of the sex. The first work of the 
board would be to decide what is to be done, the 
next to appoint a committee to do it. Should there 
be lack of experience as to what is necessary to be 
done to renovate a dilapidated, neglected, burial 
ground, the better plan might be to visit a neigh- 
boring well kept cemetery, the officers of which 
would undoubtedly gladly give all the necessary in- 
formation. This obtained, appoint someone as su- 
perintendent, to be responsible to the board for active 
work, and with just a little money for the purchase 
