PARK AND CEMETERY. 
8 ^ ^ Monthly Journal of Landscape Gardening and Kindred Arts. ^ 
VOL. IX. Chicago, July, 1899. NO. 5. 
CONTENTS. 
EDITORIAL — The Detroit Convention of the A. P. and 
O. A. A. — The Duty of the Press — Planting on the 
Lawn Flan — Belle Isle Park, Detroit — Improving the 
Single Grave Sections 93 94 
*The Detroit Convention of the American Park and Out- 
door Art Association 94 
The Relation of Reservoirs to Public Parks 99 
The Parks and the People 100 
The Fall Grass Pest loi 
*Improvement Associations 102 
*The Witch Hazel 103 
Program of Annual Convention of the American Associa- 
tion of Cemetery Superintendents 104 
*Garden Plants — Their Geography, XLII I 104 
Park Notes 106 
Cemetery Notes 107 
Correspondence 108 
“ The Man with the Hoe ” 108 
Selected Notes and Extracts 109 
Reviews of Books, Reports, etc no 
* Illustrated. 
G ive and take is fair play, but seldom is its 
principle worked out so equably as at De- 
troit in connection with the recent conven- 
tion of the Park and Out-door Art Association. If 
the discussion of the many important features of 
park and landscape gardening afforded the local 
authorities an opportunity to absorb valuable in- 
formation that must be of great service to them in 
their work, the visitors to the fair city of the straits 
must have taken away with them many helpful sug- 
gestions from the clean streets, the numerous and 
well kept small parks, the handsome residential 
surroundings, and other accessories found in this 
favored community that go to make up the city 
beautiful. 
T he secular and religious press of this country 
can do no better work than to espouse the 
cause of the American Park and Out-door 
Art Association, and give wide publicity to its ef- 
forts to encourage public interest in the educational 
value of parks, and the helpful influences of beauti- 
ful surroundings. Homes, schools, colleges, rail- 
roads, public institutions, factories, etc., are being 
appreciably affected by the good work of this asso- 
ciation. Public interest in out-door art is growing 
throughout the land as never before, and as it means 
much to the general welfare that the people’s taste 
should be properly directed, the powerful influence 
of the press of every class ought to be exerted in 
so important a step in our moral progress. As has 
been the case in some other directions of our de- 
velopment wherein the press has, in a measure, left 
the work of popularizing a movement to the indivi- 
dual apostles of the cause and waited until it was 
well on its feet before espousing it, the same apathy 
seems to have held sway among our editorial breth- 
ren in the rapidly expanding idea of the external 
improvement of our homes and the neglected spots 
of our urban districts. It is better late than never, 
and the cause now rapidly developing of adding in- 
creasing pleasures to life and thereby greatly up- 
lifting the moral tone of the race, is one of such un- 
deniable importance, that all interested, and that 
means, when the work is clearly understood, every 
healthy individual, will welcome every helpful sug- 
gestion or admonition that our generally well in- 
formed and right-intentioned press can offer. The 
cause is so many sided that we know of no line of 
press professionalism that cannot find a peg upon 
which to hang a moral or point a way; it is inex- 
tricably woven with the domestic pleasures and re- 
creations; it will tend to cleanse the political life 
because intercourse with nature is both edifying 
and exalting, and it involves the principles, either 
elementary or advanced as the case may be, of one of 
the oldest of professions, now progressing in this 
country to the position of one of the most widely 
effective and important in its relation to civilization. 
I N endeavoring to carry out the landscape or 
lawn plan in our modern cemeteries one very 
important essential that is too often lost sight 
of, is the provision of space between lots for at 
least a limited amount of ornamental planting. A 
continuous sward, unbroken by copings or other 
