PARK AND CEMETERY. 
POR/AERLY THE /AODERN CE/AETER'i'. 
A. Monthly Journal Devoted to Parks and Cemeteries- 
R. J. HAIQHT, Rublistier, 
334 Dearborn Street, CHICAGO. 
Subscription $i,oo a Year in Advance. Foreign Subscription $1.50. 
VoL. VI. CHICAGO, OCTOBER, 1896. No. 8 
CONTENTS. 
EDITORIAL 341 
THE HARMONY OF ARCHITECTURE AND LANDSCAPE 
WORK 342 
♦THE BOOTH MEMORIAL, WOODLAWN CEMETERY, 
NEW YORK 343 
THE CEMETERY AS A WORK OF ART 344 
•SOME MONUMENTS IN LINCOLN PARK, CHICAGO 346 
CONVENTION ECriOES.-*RECEIVING VAUl.T, PROS- 
PECT HILL CEMETERY, OMAHA. NEB, 348 
STORY OF THE GARDEN 349 
♦GARDEN PLANTS, THEIR GEOGRAPHY, XII 350 
GOLDENRODS AND ASTERS 351 
♦SOME PECULIAR MONUMENTS.— NOTES 352 
LANDSCAPE GARDENING IN CHINA.-LIBELLOUS IN- 
SCRIPTIONS ON MONUMENTS-TREES 353 
♦THE KANTZ VAULT, METAIRIE CEMETERY, NEW OR- 
LEANS 354 
PARK NOTES 355 
CEMETERY, NOTES 356 
RULES A^ID REGULATIONS.— LEGAL.-*SPIR^A TO- 
MENTOSA ALBA 35; 
PUBLISHERS DEPARTMENT 358 
* Illustrated. 
RGANIZED effort to improve our cemeteries, 
the results of which have been fairly re- 
markable of late years, is well repre- 
sented in the larger way by the Association 
of American Cemetery Superintentendents, whose 
recent successful convention at St. Louis 
has been fully recorded in these columns. To 
reap the full benefit of such association has been a 
matter of careful consideration on the part of those 
interested in the work of improvement; for it could 
not be expected that the influence of the national 
body would be far reaching enough to confer prac- 
tical benefits on all the cemeteries of the country 
and for obvious reasons. But Nebraska leads the 
way in offering a solution of the question by organ- 
izing the Nebraska State Cemetery Association, for 
the purpose of disseminating a knowledge of ceme- 
tery management in that State. Nebraska is the 
first state to take such a step, and it would appear, 
that as the State association will include all ceme- 
tery officials in its membership, the influence of the 
national body would meet a responsive chord in the 
state body to extend the good work of improve- 
ment to the smaller cemeteries and burial grounds, 
by creating a spirit of progress among officials of 
every degree. Attention has already been called 
to the Onondaga, N. Y., county association, which 
was organized for a similar purpose. 
I "HE supreme point of our enjoyment of lawn 
J[_ plan<:ing is reached when we have com- 
passed in our grounds the loveliest effects 
of color,” says Samuel Parsons, Jr., in his inter- 
esting work on Landscape (gardening , to which we 
venture to add that these lovely effects are to be 
seen at their very best in the autumnal season 
through which we are now passing. A brief visit 
to Graceland cemetery, Chicago, recently, revealed 
many beautiful effects in coloring as a result of 
studied planting in that in many respects ideal 
cemetery. No pen picture could do the varied ef- 
fects justice, and until the art of accurately repro- 
ducing the colors of nature on the letter press is 
perfected can the pleasing picture of the fall sea- 
son be more than a memory. The many tints of 
the foliage are ever changing, and the bursting seed 
pods of the berry bearing shrubs bring to light new 
beauties that must be seen to be appreciated. Park 
and cemetery planting for fall effects has not re- 
ceived the attention that it deserves. But the rea- 
son is not hard to find. There must be intelligent 
appreciation of nature’s laws; and the better know- 
ledge possessed of the resources she offers for the 
effects proposed, the finer the effects produced. 
Landscape work is fast receiving its due 
recognition as art. And it is art of a high 
order too, requiting not only profound study to at- 
tain knowledge of the material so lavishly offered 
by nature, but that artistic sense which can create 
harmonious effects, both in the design of a land- 
scape, the distribution of the plant life used in its 
composition, and for color effects, the choice of the 
material at hand to produce not only the desired ef- 
fects but the best effects possible. So far as au- 
tumn is concerned the landscape artist has a broad 
field to cover. The variations of tone and color un- 
der the influences of sun and shadow which the sea- 
son so freely alternates affects the problem also; 
