PARK AND CEMETERY. 
POR,nERLY THE nODERN CE/AETERY. 
A Monthly Journal Devoted to Parks and Cemeteries- 
R. J. HAIGHT, Rublisher, 
334 Deapbopn Street, CHICAGO. 
Subscription $i,oo a Year in Advance. Foreign Subscription $1.50 
VoL. VI. CHICAGO, NOVEMBER, 1896. No. 9. 
CONTENTS. 
EDITORIAL 359 
*THE LEXINGTON CEMETERY, LEXLNGTON, KY 360 
’GARDEN PLANTS, THEIR GEOGRAPHY, XIII 364 
NOTES 365 
♦SOUTH PARK, QUINCY, ILL 366 
THE TOMB SPIDER OF ITALY 3:? 
A MORE RATIONAL VIEW OF DEATH 367 
♦THE ANNUAL FLOWER SHOW, CHICAGO 368 
♦ROCKERIES AT PINE GROVE CEMETERY, LYNN, MASS. 370 
♦VILLAGE IMPROVEMENT 371 
PARK NOTES 373 
CEMETERY NOTES 374 
EFFECT OF ELECTRIC LICHT ON TREES.-LEGAL 375 
PUBLISHERS DEPARTMENT 376 
♦Illustrated. 
M any of the discussions and notes brought 
out at the recent convention of the Associa- 
tion of American Cemetery Superintendents 
at St. Louis, bore evidence of the value of the sug- 
gestions made from time to time in these columns. 
The rapid progress in the higher development of 
our cemeteries and methods of cemetery manage- 
ment is really remarkable, and it is only due to the 
progressive and enlightened spirit of the American 
people to say, that when they properly comprehend 
the propriety, to say nothing of the necessity, of 
improvement in the conditions of our cemeteries, 
advance is the watchword. Now, in order that the 
people may be brought to understand and appreci- 
ate the aims of cemetery officials under the new 
impetus, it is apparent that they must be supplied 
with the necessary information to incite their co-op- 
eration, and it goes without saying that the most 
effectual and forceful medium to this end is the local 
press. It is a matter for congratulation that through- 
out the country more publicity is now being given 
to cemetery affairs, and much good has already 
been derived from it . But much has still to be done, 
and a more active effort must be made by cemetery 
officials to interest their local papers in the work. 
When we think the matter over carefully it seems 
as though the cemetery should receive as much at- 
tention at the hands of the local editor as the park, 
but for different reasons. The park is an essential 
feature of our civilization; the modern cemetery a 
necessity; and while the latter has found its best 
development under quasi public corporate manage- 
ment, it is nevertheless a public function, and a most 
prominent indicator of the degree of civilization of 
our people. 
IVILIZATION in its broader lines advances 
in epochs, certain well defined periods mark- 
ing the development of certain phases. So, it 
may be said, that its details progress in like stages, 
which appear alter the lapse of years to be clearly 
outlined and distinct from successive yet evolved 
sequences. And so being particularly interested in 
landscape gardening, we may look upon it as hav- 
ing begun, in American horticulture, with fruit cul- 
ture. This seems to have been closely followed by 
floriculture, which developed into gardening on 
more pretentious lines, until to make our parks and 
cemeteries more attractive and refining, landscape 
gardening has reached its present advanced position 
in this country. But the progressive idea involved 
is yet active and is reaching out to impel the peo- 
ple to become still more interested in nature and 
nature’s ways, as related to landscape work, by 
establishing in our principal cities a botanical gar- 
den as part of the park system. And this is not yet 
all, for in connection with our school system a sug- 
gestion is broached to encourage the study of plant 
life by the creation of botanical gardens, of greater 
or less extent, of easy access to our young people. 
There is scarcely a limit to the extension of the idea, 
tor such gardens, in all our villages, would not be 
difficult of attainment within reasonable bounds, 
and what an incentive and education to village im- 
provement societies would such grounds be! This 
is not advocating an unreasonable suggestion, for 
in another column it will be observed that Russia 
has in many of its provinces a complete system of 
garden and forest education attached to its village 
schoolhouses. So we cannot flatter ourselves with 
very great originality, even in this advanced propo- 
sition. 
