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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
Park and Cemeterv. 
ESTABLISHED 1890, 
An Illustrated Monthly Journal. 
Devoted to the advancement of Art- 
out of Doors, with special reference to 
the improvement of parks, cemeteries, 
home grounds and the promotion of the 
interests of Town and Village Improve- 
ment Associations, etc. 
The regular contributors to Park and 
Cemetery 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 
identihed with landscape work. 
John W- Weston, C. E., Editor. 
R. J. HAIGHT, Publisher, 
334 Dearborn St,, CHICAGO. 
Eastern Office: 
1 536 Am. Tract Society Bldg., New Y ork. 
Subscription $100 a Year in Advance. 
Foreign Subscription $1.25. 
Correspondence solicited on subjects 
pertinent to the columns of the jourttal. 
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 from our readers. 
Association of American Ccmc' 
tery Superintendents. 
ARTHUR W. HOBERT, “Lakewood,” 
Minneapolis, Minn., President. 
Wm. stone, “Pine Grave,'' 
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 . LO RING, Minneapolis, Minn- 
President- 
WARREN H. MANNING, Tremont Building- 
Boston. Mass. Secretary 
O. C. SIMONDS, Chicago. Treasurer- 
The next meeting of the Association 
will be held at Chicago, 111 . 
The souvenir prepared by the commis- 
sioners of Parks and Boulevards of Detroit, 
Mich., and presented to the members of 
the American Park and Outdoor Art 
Association, at the recent convention held 
in that city, is a handsome memento of 
the occasion. In the main it is a pictor- 
ial representation of the excellent leatures 
of Detroits park system, beautifully execu- 
ed in all particulars, with sufficient text 
to convey the principal matters of inter- 
est. 
The National Cash Register Co., Day- 
ton, O., prepared a special souvenir num- 
ber of the N. C. R. for distribution 
among the members of the American 
Park and Outdoor Art Association at their 
Detroit Convention. This company, 
through the intelligent philanthropic effort 
of its president, Mr John H. Patterson, has 
effected a remarkable work among its em- 
ployees in creating an interest in the im- 
provement of their home surroundings. 
The portion of Dayton, O., in which this 
work has been carried on has found a 
world wide reputation, and the influence 
exerted by this very sucessful demonstra- 
tion of the effect of sustained energy in a 
good work, is already far reaching and is 
promising of a wide spread reform in the 
relation between employer and employee. 
The souvenir is replete with detail illus- 
trations of the work of the improvement 
association, with descriptive text and 
much information relating to methods of 
procedure and the general scheme as it 
progresses, Lincoln, Neb. 
The Department of Botany of the 
University of Nebraska has undertaken 
to make a complete collection of the poi- 
sonous plants of Nebraska, and asks 
everyone who is interested in this mat- 
ter to give aid by sending samples, ac- 
companied by notes, as to the poisonous 
qualities of the plants, with other infor- 
mation which may be helpful. Stockmen 
in particular are asked to give this mat- 
ter their attention. Samples and corres- 
pondence should be addressed to Profes- 
sor Bessey, Lincoln Neb. 
We have received from Mr. Arthur h . 
Gray, landscape architect, of Boston, a 
copy of “The Ideal Watertown,” the 
Young Men's Assembly special edition of 
the Watertown, (Mass.,) Enterprise. 
The object of this Young Men’s Assem- 
bly, which meets monthly, is the improve- 
ment of Watertown, and this special edi- 
tion contains numerous illustrations with 
descriptive text, of possible public im- 
provements and landscape embellish- 
ments leading up to the ideal in urban 
progress. The suggestions and sketches 
are furnished by citizens of professional 
standing, and are practical and possible, 
and as is stated in the columns, many 
supposedly ideal schemes promoted years 
ago by far seeing and public spirited men 
have become actual realities of the pre- 
sent. The work of the Young Men’s 
Assembly of Watertown, Mass., can be 
imitated to advantage we might say, all 
over the land. 
The June issue of Municipal Affairs is 
chiefly devoted to taxation and urban 
problems. Among its important articles 
are: Water supply in London and Phila- 
delphia; Municipal government of Padua, 
Italy: The larger Transportation Pro- 
blems in cities; Duration of Franchises; 
State Oversight of Police, and three valu- 
able discussisns on Urban Taxation. 
In the last issue of The Technograph 
the annual publicaton of the engineering 
societies of the University of Illinois, 
there appear three articles of especial 
interest to readers associated with land- 
scape work. They are: Parks and Boule- 
vards,” by A. C. Schrader, chief engi- 
neer for West Chicago Park Commission- 
ers; “Notes on Landscape Gardening as 
applied to Parks and Boulevards,” by 
James Jensen, superintendent of West 
Side Parks, Chicago, and Landscape 
Gardening — Past and Present,’’ by Joseph 
Cullen Blair, asst. Professor of Horticul- 
ture. 
The Illinois Agriculturist, foi 1899, 
is issued by the Agricultural Club of 
the University of Illinois and is its annual 
publicatiin representing fome of the work 
done at the University, by the Agricul- 
tural studen's. Valuable material is also 
contributed by the professors and promi- 
nent agnculturisls, of the State. 
The single tpx would also result in im- 
proving the appearance of the city in 
m.nny 'w.iys. By unt.ixing" buildings not 
only would new buildings be encouraged, 
but. the yeaily line being removed, ihe 
old and cheap buildings, which now dis- 
figure the city, would be replaced by good- 
looking structures. As no one could af- 
ford to pay a tax on idle land which left 
no room for speculative profits: nearly 
all very valuable land, not used for parks, 
would contain valuable buddings; and the 
value of the buildings would be somewhat 
in proportion to the value of the land un- 
der them. The city would, therefore, 
lose much of its present ragged appear- 
ance. No extra fine being placed on 
fine-appearing buildings, their external 
architecture would be improved. 
Linder the single tax cities would also 
be better laid out and provided with 
parks. 
If a city now wishes to improve its ap- 
pearance and to layout its streets with 
some evidence of design for the accom- 
modation and convenience of the public, 
it can do so only after paying exorbitant 
prices for the land condemned. Under 
the single tax the land would have but 
little value and the change could be easily 
and cheaply made. — From Municiple Af- 
fairs Xor June. 
How TO Plan the Home Grounds. 
By Samuel Parsons, Jr., Ex. Supt. of 
parks. New York City; Fellow of the 
American Society of Landscape Ar- 
chitects. With illustrations. New 
York: Doubleday, McClure Co. 1899. 
The name of Samuel Parsons, Jr., at- 
tached to a work on out-door art, as the 
adornment of home grounds involves, 
should easily invite perusal and the book 
to hand will afford some very interesting 
and instructive reading, and moreover, 
will lend to further study of so important 
a theme. The author states that the pur- 
pose of the book is to set forth briefly 
some simple basic principles concerning 
the processes whereby home grounds can 
be made beautilul, and the statement 
cannot be made too emphatically at the 
outset, that it is always just as simple and 
just as difficult to lay out a small yard 
25x100 feet as a gentlemen’s great coun- 
try place of many acres. Common sense 
and reasonable comfort may go hand in 
hand with art and beauty. The book dis- 
cusses the selection of home grounds 
and site of house, roads, paths, lawns, 
flower gardens, terrace, plantations, trees, 
shrubs, herbaceous plants, vines and climb- 
ers, etc. And for larger areas of work, 
pools and streams, the use of rocks, resi- 
dential parks and details, contracts and 
specifications, parks, cemeteries, seaside 
lawns, city and village squares and rail- 
road station grounds, etc. etc. The book 
in its general tone bears the imprint of 
an adept in the matters discussed, and 
makes a valuable help in the cause now 
being ardently encouraged over the 
land. 
