PARK AND CEMETERY. 
^ A Monthly Journal of Landscape Gardening and Kindred Arts. ^ 
VOL. IX. Chicago, November, 1899. NO. 9. 
CONTENTS. 
EDITORIAL — Chicago Municipal Art — Progresss in 
Cemetery Improvement — Small Parks — Women’s 
Clubs and Arbor Day — Fall Flower Shows 185, 186 
*Aralia Spinosa 186 
*The Rockefeller Monument, Lakeview Cemetery, Cleve- 
land, 0 188 
Water Lilies — A Retrospect 189 
’’'The Rochester. N. Y., Parks 190 
Spiraea at Rose Brake 193 
* White Lilies (Pancratium) 195 
The Waste of Leaves and Top Soil 196 
Improvement Associations 197 
*Garden Plants— Their Geography, XLVII 19S 
The American Park and Out door Art Association 200 
Park Nates 201 
Cemetery Notes 202 
Selected Notes and Extracts 203 
Reviews of Books, Reports, Etc 204. 
* Illustrated. 
HE Municipal Art League of Chicago, which 
was organized last June has recently got into 
working shape by the election of a govern- 
ing board, which consists of three sculptors, three 
painters, three architects, the mayor of the city, 
one representative from each of the park boards, 
one representative from the board of County com- 
missioners and six lay men. The sculptors are: 
Max Mauch, C. J. Mulligan and Lorado Taft; the 
painters: C. F. Brown, Ralph Clarkson and J. H. 
Vanderpoel; the architects: Louis Sullivan, D. H. 
Burnham and P. B. Wright. The harmonious work 
of this large board will be expected to create great 
things in the future embellishment of Chicago. 
T is gratifying to note the rapid development of 
the improvement idea in cemetery practice, 
and from the many press reports and com- 
ments coming to hand from New England and con- 
tiguous territory, we are constrained to the belief 
that the recent convention of the Association of 
American Cemetery Superintendents at New Haven 
and Hartford has had a remarkably happy influence 
in that section of the country. There are however, 
other causes leading up to this condition, not the 
least of which are the several organizations of women 
devoted to the recognition of the historical charac- 
ters and localities of early American history, and 
the preservation of their tombs and graves. Their 
activity in this direction has drawn attention through 
the press to the dilapidated and unkempt condition 
of these early graveyards, and naturally it has fol- 
lowed that attention should also centre itself upon 
the more modern burial places. But the main cause 
of this revival of improvement as connected with 
the recent convention alluded to, is undoubtedly the 
prominence accorded to the proceedings by the 
New Haven and Hartford papers. Some of these 
journals are of national circulation, while most of 
them have wide influence, and the liberal and intel- 
ligent manner in which they treated the convention 
proceedings, not only testifies to their up-to-date 
intelligence and progressive spirit, but to their in- 
fluence in stimulating public sentiment. A moral 
can be readily drawn from this by every cemetery 
official in the country, which is: to cultivate the 
good will of the local press and by impressing the 
publishers with the advantages and benefits of ceme- 
tery improvement enlist their sympathies in the 
work. It will be a potent factor in inducing a pub- 
lic sentiment in favor of the cemetery and its wel- 
fare. 
T he question of small parks, or breathing 
spaces, as they are often designated, for our 
large cities^has become a paramount one, if 
we may judge from the present activity in relation 
to the subject. The matter is being threshed out 
in the public press, in social organizations, and 
wherever interest in the people’s welfare is felt, and 
the discussions cover a broad field of argument, in- 
troducing not only the aesthetic, which has been, 
hitherto in a contain sense the main spring of the 
movement, but the practical which unfortunately 
too often means the dollars and cents side only. Be 
that as it may, statistics are being given to show 
that the improvement of the physical conditions of 
the tenement districts of the large cities, such as 
opening them up and providing recreation areas, 
has been an excellent investment on the part of 
city authorities, savoring also of the sound econo- 
mies involved in self-protection. From the aesthe- 
tical standpoint the argument is very strongly in 
favor of the small park for crowded districts; then 
again there is the feature of municipal improvement 
closely allied with the park idea, that of improv- 
ing the grounds about our public buildings. What 
a great, iniquitous oversight it has been to provide 
for the extensive and noble public buildings that 
grace some of our cities, without any attention be- 
ing paid to their surroundings, the whole available 
