PARK AND CEMETERY. 
POR/AERLY THE AODERN CE/AETERY. 
A Monthly Journal Devoted to Parks and Cemeteries. 
R.. J. HAIGHT, Rublisher, 
334 Dearbopn Street, CHICAGO. 
Subscription $1,00 a Year in Advance. Foreign Subscription $1.50. 
VoL. VI. CHICAGO, JANUARY, 1897. No. ii. 
CONTENTS. 
EDITORIAL 
PARKS-TREES INTERFERING WITH ROADS 
HANGING GARDENS Ot BABYLON 
♦THE RIVERSIDE CEMETERY OF NORRISTOWN, PA 
HYBRID SPECIES 
KENTUCKY NOTES 
*THE OLD CHURCH, BONCHURCH, ISLE OF WIGHT, 
ENGLAND 
WATER LILIES— WATER PLANTS AS LANDMAKERS 
♦GARDEN PLANTS-THEIR GEOGRAPHY XIV 
♦BRICK ROADWAYS 
♦THE URI BALCOM MONUMENT, OAKWOODS CEME- 
TERY, CHICAGO 
GLASS BRICKS IN HORTICULTURAL BUILDINGS, - 
CAVE HILL CEMETERY, LOUISVILLE. KY.-CLERGY- 
MEN AIDING IN MODERNIZING CEMETERIES 
LEGAL 
PARK NOTES 
CEMETERY NOTES 
CORRESPONDENCE 
PUBLISHERS DEPARTMENT 
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I N another column will be found an article sug- 
gesting, as it were, the relations of the clergy to 
the cemetery. It is a live and timely subject, 
and the wonder of it is that the clergy have not 
taken far more practical interest in cemetery mat- 
ters than is recorded of that reverend body. The 
relation of a clergyman to his flock is such that he 
is brought very near to the individual members 
when their earthly career is closing, and usually he 
is a prominent figure in the final commitment of 
the remains to mother earth. And these close re- 
lations give him both opportunity and force to press 
upon his people the propriety, as well as necessity, 
of interesting themselves more positively in the af- 
fairs of the cemetery as an important feature in the 
duties of life, for it is the living who have necessa- 
rily most interest in the burial plot. It is really a 
duty the clergy owe to the community, albeit erst- 
while neglected, of impressing upon their congrega- 
tions the desirability as it is their duty, all things 
considered, to materially, as well as morally, aid in 
the work of making the cemetery a spot to be cher- 
ished and revered. By education, by association, 
by special duty, they are eminently qualified for 
the work, and we emphasize the suggestion that un- 
mistakable good will result from their more active 
sympathy in cemetery matters. 
ii ARK making as a National Art” is the subject 
of an article by Mary Caroline Robbins in 
the current issue of T/ie Atlayitic Monthly. 
It touches upon the progress of park making in the 
principal cities wherein its highest development is 
to be studied, and suggests its possibilities and the 
probable fact that in the designing and carrying out 
of our great park projects a distinct line of national 
art may result, which cannot but prove of perma- 
nent benefit to the American people. It is unques- 
tionably true that this country offers a field for land- 
scape art unknown anywhere, and a field that has 
been, as yet, scarcely touched, there being but very 
few names on the roll of honor in this direction. But 
the last ten years has witnessed a wonderful prog- 
ress in both the acquisition and development of 
park lands for the people, and with this landscape 
art is receiving an impetus which the people will 
surely encourage. Perfection of landscape work 
lies in the sagacious use of nature’s lavish materials 
to reproduce her best effects where required for the 
immediate benefit of mankind, and to reproduce 
her in such moods as give rest and healthy stlmu- 
us. This is, after all, the chief end ot the park- 
after recreation the rest, and the drinking in of the 
unseen stimulant permeating the atmosphere about 
beautiful landscape pictures; and to the end of pro- 
ducing such an order of landscape must the student 
of this order of art attain. The present attitude of 
the people is towards acquiring ample land for park 
purposes, which is the proper policy to pursue, but 
the people must be educated to the idea that it is 
not alone the purchase of the land and the laying it 
out that makes the park, but its permanent mainte- 
nance. Age adds to the beauty of the landscape, 
but to maintain it in growing beauty the people 
must willingly contribute to the cost. By properly 
inculcating this idea into the public mind we shall 
be able to avoid the conditions which are frequently 
presented of lack of funds for park purposes. 
