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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
Park and Cemetery. 
ESTABLISHED 1890. 
An Illustrated Monthly Journal. 
Uevoted lo the advancement of Art- 
out of Doors, with special reference to 
the ill! pro Vi. me nt of parks, cemeteries, 
home grounds and the promotion of the 
interests of Town and Village Improve- 
ment Associ ilions, etc. 
The regular contributors to Park and 
Ceviei'eky are among the most eminent 
Landscape Architects, Landscape Gar- 
deners and Horticulturists in the United 
Slates, whose practical articles make the 
journal one of great value to any one 
identitied with landscape work. 
John W. Weston, C. E., Editor, 
R. J. HAIGHT, Publisher, 
334 Dearborn St., CHICAGO. 
Eastern Office: 
1 536 Am. T ract Society Bldg., New Y ork. 
Subscription $1.00 a Year in Advance. 
Foreign Subscription $1.35. 
Correspondence solicited on su-bjects 
pertinent to the columns of the journ il. 
Officials of Parks and Cemeteries are 
requested to send copies of their re- 
ports . 
Photographs and descriptive sketches 
of interesting features in parks, cemeter- 
ies, home grounds, streets, etc., are solic- 
ited fro 7 n our readers. 
Association of American Ceme' 
tery Superintendents. 
ARTHUR W. ROBERT, “Lakewood,”, 
Minneapolis, Minn,, President. 
Wm. STONE. “Pine Grove,” 
Lynn, Mass., Vice-President. 
F EURICH, Woodward Lawn. Detroit. Mich. 
Secretary and Treasurer. 
The Thirteenth Annual Convention will 
be held at New Haven, Conn., Septem- 
ber. 5, 6, 7, 8. 
The American Park and Out- Door 
Art Association. 
CHARLES M. LORING, Minneapolis, Minn. 
President. 
WARREN H. MANNING, Tremont Building. 
Boston. Mass. Secretary, 
E. B HASKELL. Boston, Treasurer. 
The next meeting of the Association 
will be held at Detroit, .Mich., June 27, 
28, 29. 
Christian Wahl, who has been presi- 
dent of the board of Park Commissioners 
of Milwaukee, Wis., and a member ever 
since its organization in 1889, is now 
succeeded by Henry Weber. 
The following is a suggestion for the 
public broadening out of the superinten- 
dents. In the annual report of the school 
committee of the City of Lvnn, Mass,, for 
the year ending Dec. 31, 1898, occurs the 
following; “This report would not fairly 
note the service of the year without due 
recognition of the valued and interested 
action of Mr. William Stone, superinten- 
dent of Pine Grove cemetery, whose stand- 
ing invitation to enjoy the beauties of the 
cemetery has been accepted by scores of 
classes and teachers, to observe his mar- 
velous display of indigenous and exotic 
trees, shrubs, flowers and peculiar plants, 
and to rec ive his clear explanations of 
their habitat, growth and uses.” 
A Correction, 
In a note in the publishers column of 
the May issue, speaking of a paint for 
cemetery enclosures, eic., the address of 
the manufacturers was erroneously given 
as the Kansas City Roofirg Co. Il should 
have been The Kansas City Roofing & 
Corrugating Co., Kansas City, Mo. 
Landscape Gardener Ulrich of New 
York and over a hundred men have been 
busy for weeks beautifying the grounds of 
the ( Ireater America Exposition at Omaha 
to be opened July 1 anti continue until 
Nov. I, 1899. lo the benuiiful fioial 
adornments of last year will be added ovir 
250,000 new plants. Rare tropical dow- 
ers and plants are being used in abun- 
dance. 
The New Haven, Convention of the 
A. A. C. S. 
The following list of subjects has been 
sent in to the Executive Committee lor 
papers and discussions at the '1 hirteenth 
Annual Convention to be held in Sep- 
tember at New Ha^en, Conn. Members 
and others interested are invited to ex- 
amine the list and select subjects for pa- 
pers or discussions, and inform the secre- 
tary. 
I. How to become a proficient Ceme- 
tery Superintendent. 2. Why labor in 
cemeteries on Sunday? 3. Funeral atten- 
dance at the grave; appliances for lower- 
ing caskets; protection of mourners. 
4, Proper treatment of cemetery wood- 
lands. 5. Influence of modern cemeter- 
ies. 6. Subdivision of sections and lots. 
7. Difficulties confronting a cemetery sup- 
erintendent. 8. Beauties and benefits of 
modern cemeteries. 9. Ground cover- 
ing — use of shrubbery and vines on lots. 
10. The park idea in cemeteries. 
11. Cemetery advertising. How far is it 
permissible? Commissions. 12. Ideal 
management and care versus income. 
13. Should monuments and markers be 
set by the cemetery? 14. The most satis- 
factory system of pumping water; variety 
of pumps; method of distributing water. 
15. Winter work in cemeteries. 16. Plow 
to make single grave sections compare 
favorably with other sections. 17. How 
far should perpetual care be extended to 
get best results? How best to ascertain 
rates? 18 Perpetual or annual care 
provisions for poor or sick cemetery em- 
ployees. 19. Are charges made by ceme- 
teries commensurate with value given? 
20. If annual planting or embellishments 
of lots is discouraged or reduced, can the 
interest of lot owners be maintained? 21. 
Buildings, enclosures and equipments for 
cemeteries. 22. True art in cemeteries 
versus the sham. 23. Comparison be- 
tween cemeteries and parks. 24, In- 
fluence of our surroundings. 25. Insects 
and pests injurious in cemeteries (moles, 
mice, chipmunks, skunks, etc.) 26. Wide 
roads versus narrow roads. 27. Charac- 
teristic beauty of trees and shrubs in win- 
ter. Any subject not mentioned, and de- 
sirable for discussion, is welcome. 
The Housing Problem is the subject of 
a very valuable and i nteresting symposium 
in the last number of the Reform Club’s 
excellent periodical. Municipal Affairs. 
Dr. E R. L. Gould. Mr John Llo, d 
Thomas, .Mrs. Harriet P'ay es and Mr. PM- 
win L. bhuev.all specialists in tins line, 
contribute articles. Oiht r jiajiers are by 
Henry DeForest Baldwin, “Municipal 
Problems”; M. N. Baker, “Municipal 
Go operation vs. Municipal Consolida- 
tion’; Pldwin A. Greenlaw , ‘-'1 he Ollii e of 
Mayor in the United Slates”; and Dr. P . 
B. Kelley, “The Teaching of Civic i’a- 
trioli^m.” The department of Book Re- 
views contains sev< ral brief analyses <1 le- 
cent " orks upon city affairs. U nder Lead- 
ing Articles, the busy citizen will fii d 
short summaries of the principal articles 
that have appeari d within the fiast qi ar- 
ter. '1 he Bibliography which h.is bet n 
such a valuable fetilure of preceding num- 
bers is continued and brought down to 
date. Address Reform Club, 52 William 
Street, New York. 25 cents per copy. 
Landscape Gardening as applied to 
Home Decoration. By Samuel 'P. 
Maynard, Professor of Bo*any and Hor- 
ticulture, Massachusetts Agricultural 
College. 
The object of offering this bot k to the 
public is wiih a view to enabling it “to 
properly care for the ornamental tries, 
shrubs or plants that they may be able to 
procure, and to so group and combi i e 
them with the lawn, the dwelling and 
other buildings, and with the surroundii g 
conditions as to make not only a beautiful 
home picture but also to harmonize with 
any homes or estatesadjoining or near by, 
that the beauty may be as wide spread as. 
possible.” One hundred and thirty-four 
pages are devoted to discussions of general 
topics concerning landscape gardening, 
and the remaining pages of the 312 to a 
list of trees, shrubs, insect and fungoid 
diseases. It is at once evident that to 
condense the principles of landscape 
gardening into 132 pages, wherein are 
detailed in a clear, truthful text, suitable 
as a practical guide for amateurs, the 
writer should be a master of the classics 
on the subject and the English language, 
lest it become posthumous or a narrowed 
dissertation of manners without the ex- 
planation expressed or inferred of the 
principles dictating the manners set forth. 
The author frequently touches upon the 
common minor errors in practical work, 
but as a whole covers the ground assumed 
cursorily and quite unsatisfactorily. The 
broad pririciples underlying a true prac- 
tice, especially as to the arrangement of 
forms and colors, are conspicuous by their 
absence, and is further noticeable by the 
illustrations revealing a bland disregard 
of the common canons of the art involved. 
On page 16 is a sketch showing the 
arrangement of buildings upon one side 
of a lot. The ground plan of the house 
itself is of the plainest outline, with a 
single walk offering entrance alike to the 
residents and tradesmen, with no indica- 
tion as to the disposition of such neces- 
sary adjuncts as laundry yard, service 
yard or outbuildings, and in fact the 
“greater extent of lawn,” which the 
locating of the house upon one side of the 
grounds is supposed to provide, is com- 
promised with the kitchen by the planting 
represented. And the planting shown 
indicates no unity of expression through- 
out the estate by a continuity of outline 
or an artistic arrangement in genera], but 
on the other hand displays a spotty dis- 
array of disconnected trees and shrubs. 
