PARK AND CEMETERY. 
^ A Monthly Journal of Landscape Gardening and Kindred Arts. ^ 
VOL. IX. Chicago, June, 1899. NO. 4. 
CONTENTS. 
EDITORIAL — Gardening and Forestry at the Paris 
Exposition — Chicago Parks and Automobiles — 
Memorial Day — Coming Convention of the American 
Park and Outdoor Art Association — Small Parks — 
Bicycles in the Ce.netery — Monuments in the National 
Military Park 7'. 72 
* Philadelphia’s Tribute to General U. S. Grant 73 
*The Arboretum at Rose Brake 74 
Pinus Palustris 75 
*The Parks of Detroit, Mich 77 
*A Lovely Home in England 8o 
*Lake View Cemetery Skaneateles, New York 8i 
Improvement Associations 83 
Programs of Convention of American Park and Outdoor 
Art Association and Association of American Cemetery 
Superintendents 84 
*CityPark; Mannheim, Germany 85 
^Garden Plants— Their Geography, XLII 86 
Park Notes ^7 
Cemetery Notes 88 
Selected Notes and Extracts 89 
Reviews of Books, Reports, etc 9 ° 
* Illustrated. 
I T is to be hoped that our commissioner for the 
Paris Exposition will not overlook the matter 
of securing to American landscape architects 
the work of laying out the grounds surrounding 
and connected with the United States buildings. 
It might be a very interesting invasion of the es- 
tablished ability of our sister republicans in ques- 
tions of embellishment, to show them how Ameri- 
can gardeners can provide for immediate effects in 
their selection of planting material, and its dispo- 
sition in decorative gardening. In the department 
of Forestry and Fisheries our commissioner has 
appointed Dr. Tarleton H. Bean as director. Dr. 
Beaij,is a Pennsylvanian by birth, and was asso- 
ciated with the Forestry Commissioner of that state 
for many years. He was also in the government 
service for a long period, finally attaining the posi- 
tion of’_ Chief of the Division of Fish Culture. 
From the time of the Centennial Exhibition he has 
had a varied and extensive experience in Exposi- 
tion matters, both at home and abroad, and should 
be eminently qualified to direct the very important 
department to which he has been appointed. 
I T would be difficult to assign a reason for the 
peculiar regulation just passed by the South 
Park Commissioners of Chicago prohibiting the 
use of the boulevards and parks to automobile 
vehicles. If their desire was to attract more of the 
drastic criticism to which they have often subjected 
themselves, their effort has well succeeded, and 
they are m'”t with the righteous opposition of the 
friends of the electric carriage. Chicago people 
will presently be calling emphatically for me dern 
blood in South Park officialdom. 
M emorial day received far greater public 
recognition this year than ever before, and 
the observance partook of more seriousness. 
This generally desirable condition was the result of 
the late Spanish war, which brought the horrors and 
bereavements consequent upon war, close home to 
the present generation, and it is to be earnestly 
hoped that the conditions which became so obnox- 
ious to the higher sense of the American people in 
the past few years will never recur. Memorial 
Day should never be allowed to degenerate into a 
hoodlum holiday. Many notable exercises were 
carried out at a number of the cemeteries, exercises 
which embraced both Federal, Confederate and 
Spanish war dead, and in some cases the memorial 
features were united in one program. The ceme- 
teries were beautiful in their rich late spring effects, 
resonant with nature’s harmonies, and lending their 
soothing influence to the new fraternity of soldier- 
hood which the late war has graciously evolved. 
D etroit is to be congratulated this year 
upon being the city of the annual conven- 
tion of the American Park and Outdoor 
Art Association. This meeting occurs on the 27th, 
28th and 29th of the present month, and of which 
more detailed particulars will be found in another 
column. It has been observed that the effect of 
this convention and its proceedings have been very 
stimulating in park affairs in the cities in which it 
has been held. The intense interest taken in the 
objects of the association has drawn to it a mem- 
