PARK AND CEMETERY. 
^ A Monthly Journal of Landscape Gardening and Kindred Arts. ^ 
VOL. IX. Chicago, October, 1899. NO. 8. 
CON TEN 'IS. 
EDITORIAL — Swan Point Cemetery, Providence, R. I. — 
The Pilfering of Flowers, etc., in Parks and Cemeteries 
— The Good Roads Question — Fall Effects and Land- 
scape Art — An English National Trust Society — The 
Duty of Officials to the Public 157, 158 
*The Public Parks of New Haven, Conn ijy 
*The Early Cemeteries of New Haven, Conn 161 
The Effect of Trees on Temperature 164 
* Sophora Japonica, Japanese Pagoda Tree 165 
*Cereus Grandiflorus 166 
*A Mighty White Oak 166 
History of the Dahlia 167 
*Logan Grove, Medford, Mass 167 
*The Hypericum 168 
White Lilies 170 
The Outside Cemeteries of San Francisco 171 
*Some Noted Mausoleums in Woodlawn Cemetery, New 
York 172 
Epitaphs 172 
♦Marginal Planting 174 
Mountain Grove Cemetery, Bridgeport, Conn 174 
Notes on Parks and Park Work T76 
Improvement Associations 177 
^Garden Plants — Their Geography, XL VI 179 
Park Notes 181 
Cemetery Notes 182 
Selected Notes and Extracts 183 
Reviews of Books, Reports, Etc 184 
* Illustrated. 
N their return from the New Haven conven- 
tion a number of members of the Associa- 
tion of American Cemetery Superintendents 
stopped over in Providence, R. I., to visit Roger 
Williams park and Swan Point cemetery. Swan 
Point cemetery possesses features which have been 
developed so naturally and yet artistically, that it 
stands unique in many particulars. Possessing, like 
so much of New England territory, its full share of 
rock and boulders, these rather than being neglected 
as detrimental, have been used with splendid results 
in improving the grounds, and in combination with 
trailing and creeping vines and low bush and dwarf 
flowering material, effects have been produced of mar- 
velous attractiveness, and the term is used advisedly 
too. In an early issue some details and illustrations 
will be given, which will demonstrate what can be 
done by a genius in gardening, with what material he 
has on hand coupled with an innate love and knowl- 
edge of nature and her ways in her floral kingdom. 
NE of the most serious and at the same time 
most annoying difficulties, park and ceme- 
tery superintendents have to contend with, 
is the petty depredation, of more or less frequent 
occurrence, carried on among the flowers and 
smaller plants, by persons who pay no attention to 
the rules governing such practices. It also often 
extends to injury to the trees and larger shrubs. 
In these columns stringent measures have been ad- 
vocated to stop such abuses, while at the same time 
the difficulty of catching the culprits in flagrante 
delicto is realized. We think it should be presumed 
that much of this petty pilfering is done without 
due knowledge of the consequences attending de- 
tection, and that education is very necessary to ex- 
plain to the public that to preserve even the wild 
beauty of the park great care and expense are nec- 
essary, A method has been adopted by the Board 
of Park Commissioners of Rochester, N. Y., educa- 
cational in its nature. Thousands of circulars have 
been distributed on the street cars to persons visit- 
ing the parks, and in the public schools calling atten- 
tion to what the authorities are doing in planting 
and caring for wild flowers, asking that all will re- 
frain from picking them, and including on the cir- 
cular the legal penalties in store for those disre- 
garding these injunctions. The circular strikes 
us as an excellent suggestion which might readily 
be extended to cover many situations and cases, 
and is right in the line of practically educating the 
people in their duties to the parks and cemeteries 
in regard to their plant life. 
U nquestionably, an old important mat- 
ter in the development of a country Is its 
roads, and it is one that for some reason or 
the other has been most neglected in our own coun- 
try. Whether it has been from the fact that this 
has been eminently a peaceful nation, with no nec- 
essity to create and maintain good roads for mili- 
tary purposes, or that the very extent of territory 
to be covered has blinded our people to the econ- 
omy represented by good thoroughfares, the fact 
remains that of all the civilized countries at present 
under prosperous conditions our means of com- 
munication in the way of roads are unquestionably 
the poorest of all, taken altogether. And it is grati- 
fying to note, that at last, the value of good roads 
is slowly making itself felt, and that the necessary 
political methods to secure them are gradually tak- 
ing shape. During the last year or two a large 
number of organizations have been effected over the 
