PARK AND CEMETERY. 
^ A Monthly Journal ot Landscape Gardening and Kindred Arts. ^ 
VOL. IX. Chicago, March, 1899. NO. L 
CONTENTS. 
EDITORIAL — Arbor Day— Influence of Well-Kept Ceme- 
teries — Effect of Fast Winter on Plant- Life— Public 
Reservations — The Lincoln Monument, Springfield, 
111. — Work of this Journal 
*The Interstate Park, Dalles of the St. Croix, Minnesota — 
Wisconsin 
^Ornamental Planting at Mt. Elliot Cemetery, Detroit, 
Mich 
*Home Grounds. 
*Royal Botanic Gardens. Kew, England, XI 
*Animal Sculpture for the Parks. 
*A Classified Botanical Garden 
*The Cary Monument 
Trees and Shrubs— Planting Trees — The I'wo Choicest 
Evergreens 
*Garden Plants — Their Geography, XXXI X 
Improvement Associations 
An Excellent Fertilizer for Nurseries 
Planting on Cemetery Lots 
Park Notes 
Cemetery Notes 
Legal 
Selected Notes and Extracts 
Reviews of Books, Reports, etc 
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* Illustrated. 
A rbor day is approaching in many states, 
and has been observed in those favorably 
situated as to latitude and climate. It is 
gratifying to note that the observance of the day 
is becoming more a matter of general interest, as 
well it may, for from the ethical standpoint it rep- 
resents a growing sentiment in favor of becoming 
more intimate with nature, living closer to her, 
and, on the practical side, it is helping in the work 
of improving our surroundings, besides reinstating 
tree and plant life where it has been ruthlessly 
destroyed. The preparations which are annually 
made long before the appointed time in our public 
schools for making it a useful and instructive day, 
measure the hold it is taking on the people, and 
insure that the rising generation shall not only con- 
tribute to the good of the present but shall be pre- 
pared to continue the work into the next; and the 
signs of the times are that art out of doors will be 
one of the crowning evidences of the condition of 
the American people as time advances. One of the 
pleasing features of Arbor Day is the opportunity 
it affords for a set time to plant memorial trees. 
Trees that are particularly suitable for such a pur- 
pose are of long life, and besides of themselves 
being such objects of interest and care to those 
immediately concerned, they carry history along 
with them, and by the associations connected with 
their planting become heirlooms. The planting of 
memorial trees is, therefore, urged as an appropriate 
and fitting observance of Arbor Day both in the 
park and cemetery, and the interest attaching to 
the special object of the act is augmented by the 
interest which always hovers about a tree, and 
makes it a revered and treasured friend. 
T he influence of a well kept cemetery in the 
community is very far reaching, and is of 
necessity for good. One cannot imagine 
that it could be otherwise, for there would be no 
parallel for such a condition on record. Beauty was 
never degrading; it is always elevating, and the 
powerful influence it exerts on the human mind has 
been demonstrated in all times. The advance in 
cemetery practice, so marked in the large cities is 
very rapidly affecting the small communities, and 
it might well be one of the first considerations of 
the Village Improvement Societies. The lawn 
plan, with its restful grass plats and planting 
schemes, can be just as readily adapted to the small 
burial ground as the large one, as a fact it fits any 
conditions, and moreover as it reduces to a mini- 
mum the monument question, it relieves a commun- 
ity of expense, when properly understood, while 
offering far more instructive, comforting and restful 
returns for the outlay of time and money. 
T he low temperature of the past winter, its 
duration and the wide area over which it was 
felt, will have been more or less disastrous 
to certain classes of our decorative plants and 
trees, the extent of which cannot be positively esti- 
mated until spring really starts the sap and growth 
begins. That all the good possible may be secured 
from the disaster, it will be wise to take full notes 
of such plants and trees as have suffered and been 
materially injured or destroyed; for such notes will 
not only be a guide for the future disposition of such 
plants, but will afford a basis for study of their con- 
stitutions with the possibility of improving the 
plants for such variations of temperature or of pro- 
viding sufficient means for their protection. Our 
readers will be doing a good work to compile such 
notes and submit them to this journal for mutual 
benefit. These low ranges of temperature appear 
at intervals, and we must be prepared for the un- 
expected. 
