PARK AND CEMETERY. 
P()R/AERL^' THE MODERN CEMETER'i'. 
A Monthly Journal Devoted to Parks and Cemeteries- 
R. J. HAIGHT, Publisher, 
334 Deapbopn Street. CHICAGO. 
Subscription $1,00 a Year in Advance. Foreign Subcription $1.52 
VoL. VI. CHICAGO, MARCH, 1896. No i. 
CONTENTS. 
EDITORIAL 217 
*THE PARKS OB' TOLEDO, 0 218 
*WOODLAWN CEMETERY, NEW YORK CITY 220 
*A CHARMING WATER GARDEN 222 
"GARDEN PLANTS’-THEIR GEOGRAPHY, V 224 
ORNAMENTAL BEDDING FOR SMALL CEMETERIES 226 
*THE LUCOMBE OAK 226 
ORNAMENTAL PLANTING FOR PARKS AND PUBLIC 
GROUNDS 227 
LEGAL 218 
CORRESPONDENCE 229 
PARK NOTES 230 
CEMETERY NOTES 23 i 
PUBLISHERS DEPARTMENT 232 
*Illustrated. 
M uch attention has been drawn to the neg- 
lected conditions of our rural and village 
cemeteries, which in some measure is un- 
doubtedly due to the lack of knowledge of how to 
proceed in a systematic manner to care for them. 
To obtain the best information in this direction 
competitive papers on the subject are invited, in 
accordance with directions which will be found on 
another page of this issue. It is a problem, the so- 
lution of which will be of lasting benefit to the 
community. 
T he boisterous month of March, with its sun- 
shine and shadow, rain, sleet, and rampant 
changefulness, is nevertheless the month in 
which the superintendent rouses from the monotony 
of his winter’s duties and sets himself in the full tide 
of mental activity for the spring flood of park and 
cemetery work. The months of comparative inaction 
so far as outdoor labor is concerned, should have 
developed schemes of improvement and fostered re- 
arrangements of detail, which create impatience for 
opportunity of carrying them out and testing their 
values; and the present month lends itself to the 
maturing of plans which the coming weeks will 
sooner or later afford occasion for putting into ef- 
fect. The short springtime in our northern latitudes 
makes it necessary that not only should everything 
be in readiness to take advantage of the first settled 
weather for outside work, but that it may be car- 
ried to completion with as much dispatch as possi- 
ble. Hence the prime advantage of having so mat- 
ured the scheme of spring operations that an ade- 
quate force of help should be engaged to carry it 
out beyond a question of delay. With our ceme- 
teries, Decoration Day has a certain limiting time 
mark, when the grounds should be as clean and at- 
tractive as possible, which is a pointed argument in 
favor of a sharp spring campaign. Moreover, not- 
withstanding, the more or less damaging effects on 
the cemetery grounds of the crowding visitors, it is 
unquestionably to the advantage of the cemetery 
associations that their properties should be in a 
holiday dress of beauty, full of charm and attract- 
iveness, so as to impress a sentiment as forceful in 
its influence on the living as that which impels the 
offerings of flowers at the resting places of the 
dead. 
T he Park Commissioners of Louisville, Ky., 
have again addressed the citizens of that city 
on the subject of sidewalk trees, and their 
example might be profitably followed in many 
other places. In the matter of trimming large trees 
the average property owner knows little, if anything, 
about it, as may be observed anywhere and every- 
where where sidewalks trees are abundant. As a 
matter of fact this kind of pruning requires expert 
knowledge, and the different appearance of side- 
walk and park trees substantiate the statement. 
Really, a very small percentage of the larger trees 
require any cutting, whatever, where the conditions 
serve their characteristic nature, and the indiscrimi- 
nate lopping off here and cutting back there, which 
is the general practice, means little else than des- 
truction, if not of the life of the tree, at least of its 
natural beauty. Besides the injury done by injudi- 
cious trimming, untold damage results in the spring 
from the hitching of horses in their proxmity, 
whose propensity for nibbling at the barks is a con- 
stant menace to the health of trees. Where such 
an evil may be expected, some protection should be 
provided; and in fact no effort should be spared to 
give our city trees every chance to display their 
beauty, for in this not only is their usefulness for 
shade purposes improved, but the attractiveness of 
the thoroughfare becomes a permanent investment 
and stamps it as a business proposition. 
