PARK AND CEMETERY. 
rOR,nERLY THE /AODERN CEAETERY. 
A. M'nthly Journal Devoted to Parks and Cemeteries- 
R. J. HAIGHT, Publisher, 
334 Deapbopn Stpeet. CHICAGO. 
Subscr'ption $1,00 a Year in Advance. Foreign Subscription $1.52 
VoL. VI, CHICAGO. APRIL, 1896. No 2. 
CONTENTS. 
KDITORIAI. 233 
STATUTES OF THE STATE OF OHIO 234 
*THE MINNEAPOLIS, MINN., PARKS 235 
’■CROWN HILL CEMETERY, INDIANAPOLIS, IND 238 
"GARDEN PLANTS’-THEIR GEOGRAPHY, VI 24o 
"CONFEDERATE MEMORIAL DAY 242 
"GROUP OF PINES, FAIRMOUNT PARK, PHILADELPHIA, 
PA 243 
"UNIFORM AND GRAVE TENT S. -CEMETERIES ON THE 
INSURANCE PLAN 244 
"MEMORIAL FOUNTAIN. LAKE VIEW CEMETERY, JAMES- 
TOWN, N. Y. -SUGGESTIVE HINTS 245 
REVIVAL OF USE OF FLOWERS-A CORRECTION 246 
PARK NOTES 247 
CEMETERY NOTES 248 
PUBLISHERS DEPARTMENT 249 
’Illustrated. 
I T is gratifying to note the development of the 
idea of improvement societies in the smaller 
towns for the betterment of existing conditions, 
and to promote interest in the care and improve- 
ment of the cemetery, park and public places. 
Where such interest has been secured, the change 
in the physical condition has been most marked. In 
many places it has taken the form of clearing up 
and renovating’neglected places, removing unsightly 
accumulations of rubbish and debris, and imparting 
new life by the introduction of active care, or the 
addition of needed improvements. In others it 
has enabled the prosecution of necessary public 
works, and the provision of up-to-date accessories, 
giving an altogether progressive air to the surround- 
ings. In either case the mainspring of the move- 
ment is sustained energy, and this can only be 
maintained by vigilant effort in the direction 01 
keeping the public well informed on what is being 
done, and exciting its active interest by supplying 
it with prospective advantageous suggestions. The 
interest must not only be awakened but kept from 
flagging; this end is the main feature to be secured, 
and it can only be secured by continuous activity in 
the working membership; and the object to be at- 
tained so attractively presented as to invite hearty 
co-operation from the majority. In places where 
impro', ement societies have not already been organi- 
zed, the work of promoting such organizations should 
be taken up by the Cemetery officials, who from 
their experience should be well calculated to render 
the necessary assistance at the start, and impart 
such information as would lead to an intelligent 
inauguration of operations. 
I N the circle of the months the time has again 
come round which in the routine of life sug- 
gests attention to the family burial plot and 
the labor of love involved in memorializing the de- 
parted; and ideas have so broadened out of late 
years, both in regard to the cemetery itself, its 
adornment and the appropriateness of diversity of 
memorials, that a wider field is presented for indivi- 
dual preference. The lawn plan, now the general 
rule in cemetery management, not done in new 
cemeteries but in renovating the old, practically in- 
sists upon a limited display of stone work and that 
of the best. But more attention is being given to 
memorials cf other descriptions, such as may, be- 
sides memorializing the dead serve the living, thus 
in a measure emphasizing the intention. So many 
of our smaller cemeteries need chapels and lodges, 
shelter houses, fountains, and appropriately too. 
For under the lawn plan, which unquestionably 
raises the cemetery into the domain of art, in its 
landscape attributes, the cemetery becomes a sacred 
burial park, and such memorials as suggested serve 
to complete the scheme of design, and can be made 
as enduring as the ordinary monument. It is not 
sufficiently grasped by those contemplating the 
erection of a monument, how much more effective 
is the memorial which recalls, not only to friends 
but to all having interest or sacred pleasure in the 
cemetery, the memory of the family or individual 
whom it commemorates. And while honoring the 
dead and serving the living it establishes a double 
purpose in its existence, besides promoting that 
bond of Christian sympathy which is the keynote of 
man’s brotherhood. Another notable form of mem- 
orial is the tree, and trees are nowadays quite fre- 
quently adopted for the purpose. What grander or 
more beautiful object to maintain the memory of 
the departed can be found. Transplanted in goodly 
size to its appropriate location on larger lots, the 
years come and go, only to find growth and im- 
provement in the place of decadence, and under the 
control of perpetual care, a tree may be safely en- 
