PARK AND CEMETERY. 
^ A Monihly Journal of Landscape Gardening and Kindred Arts. S 
VOL, IX. Chicago, May, 1899. NO. 3. 
CONTENTS. 
EDITORIAL — Photographic Competition — The Caie of 
Confederate Graves by the Government — Small Parks 
and Play Grounds Memorial Day — The Effect of 
Last Winter on Plant Life — Planting Memorial Trees 
— The Observance of Arbor Day 5L 52 
*Hollies 53 
Care of Newly- Planted Trees 54 
"Improvements in Glenwood Cemetery, Oneida, N. Y. . . . 55 
’Horticultural Hall, Audubon Park, New Orleans, La. ... 56 
Provincialism in Parks i ;7 
"Pinehurst Suburban Park 58 
Rural School Grounds 58 
"Victoria Regia 59 
Improvement Associations 60 
Shade Trees 61 
The Treatment of the Roadside — The Cremation Question 63 
"Garden Plants— Their Geography, X LI 64 
‘Park Notes 66 
(Jemetery Notes, 67 
Cleaning Asphalt Streets 68 
Selected Notes and Extracts 69 
Reviews of Books, Reports, etc 70 
* Illustrated. 
T he habit of photography, for so it may be 
said to have become, so universal is its use, 
has prompted Park and Cemetery to in- 
vite photographic competition on the lines of its 
special work. Particulars of the scheme will be 
seen among its advertising pages, and readers using 
the camera, or others sufficiently interested, are 
cordially pressed to contribute to a successful issue 
of the effort. Landscape work, planting and beau- 
tifying the home surroundings, wherever it may be, 
are being so rapidly encouraged by the intelligence 
of the present age, that such a competition under 
the conditions suggested and required will help the 
cause to a very appreciable degree. 
I T is to be regretted that the women of the local 
chapter of the Daughters of the Confederacy 
at Savannah, Ga.. should have passed such a 
resolution in regard to federal care of confederate 
graves, as that recorded in another column. The 
president’s practical and christrian like proposition 
deserved more consideration at their hands. And 
from the prevailing conditions of the cemeteries of 
the south his proposition should have met with a 
cordial reception as being a means of inaugurating 
a movement to remove the stigma of neglected 
graveyards which reflects upon all communities 
where such neglect is common, in whatever section 
they may be located. As the southern women 
state the case it is a sacred trust they have been ful- 
filling, a glorious aftermath of the devotion so 
bravely sustained through those terrible years, yet 
with it all, it loses its force, in the fact that the once 
enemy offers to relieve them of the trust, and treat 
tliose beloved dead as sacredly as it does its own. 
In a word the people desire to pay homage to 
its departed heroes, — gray and blue alike. The 
Georgia Society is not in touch with the spirit of the 
times and we do not believe is truly representative 
of the prevailing southern sentiment. 
S MALL parks and playgrounds for the children 
in the crowded portions of our cities, is once 
more the slogan of the school teacher and so- 
cial settlement leader. And there is no more bene- 
ficent idea being advocated at the present time. 
Students of social economics already recognize that 
beautiful park tracts alone do not fill all the re- 
quirements of large communities for recreation and 
inspiration. They are in the highest sense benefi- 
cial to those within easy distance, or to those whose 
means and convenience permit of their frequent use 
of these larger parks. But these fine park areas are 
of necessity far removed as a rule from the tene- 
ment dweller and the slums, for whom primarily 
the idea of the large park took shape, hence the 
necessity of completing the park system of our 
larger cities by the institution of small parks and 
playgrounds for the crowded districts. No park 
system can be considered complete until it fulfills 
the true purpose of its existence. That there is 
necessity for such extensions of the park system is 
proven by the results of private effort in these di- 
rections. Many school teachers and others of re- 
fined benevolence have undertaken to rent and fit 
up small areas in their school localities as play- 
grounds with great results. But such reforms really 
belong to civic intelligence and not to private effort, 
and happy will be the day for our great country 
and its people when such reforms emanate from 
their representatives instead of being forced upon 
such representatives by the active intervention of 
their constituents. 
