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PARK AND CEMETERY 
and Landscape Gardening. 
VOL. X. Chicagfo, September, 1900. NO. 7 
CONTENTS. 
EDITORIAL — The Cleveland Convention of the A. A. 
C. S. — Forestry in onr Cemeteries— Cemetery Monu- 
jjigiits — The Galveston Disaster — Small Parks— Munic- 
ipal Art I49i 
^Annual Convention of Cemetery Superintendents at Cleve- 
land, O 
’Sunday Funerals — Funeral Car 
’Modern Drives for Cemeteries 
The New York Convention of the Society of American 
Florists 
*The Symmetrical and the Natural Flower Garden 
Seasonable Suggestions 
A Universal Flower 
Improvement Associations 
“Fragments” 
Notes Chiefly Historical on London Burial Places.— IV 
*Garden Plants— Their Geography, LVH 
Correspondence 
Park Notes 
Cemetery Notes 
Selected Notes and Extracts 
Reviews of Books, Reports, etc 
* Illustrated. 
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THE CLEVELAND That the influence of the Associa- 
CONVENTIOH OF tjon of American Cemetery Su- 
' perintendents, through its annual 
gatherings and the published reports of its discus- 
sions, has been far reaching in extent and benefi- 
cent in character is made more apparent with each 
recurring convention. With the passing of the 
years, the seed that has been sown has resulted in 
a gradual change in both our city and country 
cemeteries. The gloomy aspect of the old time 
burying ground, with its evidences of neglect on 
every hand has been changed and offers more 
cheerful and inspiring surroundings. The public 
has responded to the suggestion that a cemetery 
should be considered as a whole and not as an ag- 
gregation of individual holdings, which has result- 
ed in the passing of unsightly and unnecessary 
inclosures of every description, has induced a more 
careful consideration of the character and size of 
memorials, a disposition to lower the time honored 
grave mound to less conspicuous proportions, and 
a willingness to dispense with other features no 
longer considered as essential in a modern ceme- 
tery. From the very nature of things such reforms 
particularly where the unwritten law of custom has 
been so firmly established, must be gradual, but 
the “leaven” introduced by the Association of 
American Cemetery Superintendents is at “work” 
dispelling superstitions, unsanitary and inartistic 
ideas and giving place to a desire for better things 
in “God’s acre beautiful.” 
In a paper read before the re- 
OUR CEmETERIES. . r , a 
cent convention of the Associa- 
tion of American Cemetery Superintendents, Mr. 
M. Horvath suggested the appropriateness and 
desirability of practicing a little aesthetic forestry 
in our cemeteries, and the suggestion is a good one. 
There are, however, many points of a practical 
nature, practical in so far as the art requirements 
go, that must be considered both in the question 
of establishment and care of any tracts of orna- 
mental forest land that may be set apart in the 
cemetery. The introduction of such an innovation, 
which, by the way, is suggested by the very trend 
of the higher thought of today, involves the exer- 
cise of both taste, judgment, and moreover, know- 
ledge. The former faculties are more or less dis- 
tributed among us and the latter in these days can 
be acquired by patience and industry, seeing the 
wealth of literature we have on almost all subjects. 
The tract of natural forest in the cemetery would 
be one of the most attractive features possible of 
acquirement in God’s acre. It would undoubtedly 
impart a more profound sense of the obligations of 
thought and act in regard to our burial places, and 
in a practical way would invite a larger share of 
public attention to the cemetery, thereby ensuring 
more active sympathy in its improvement and per- 
petual preservation. 
Another matter of somewhat startling signifi- 
cance was also presented in the form of a paper on 
“Cemetery Monuments,” by Mr. H. R. Hatch, 
president of the Lake View cemetery, Cleveland, 
in which the practice of erecting monuments was 
deprecated except in cases of persons whose public 
life suggested lessons proper to be emphasized by 
monumental effort. Attention was also called to 
the old established practices of burial, etc., which 
do not conform to present ideas, and therefore are 
stumbling-blocks in the way of creating the best 
conditions throughout our cemeteries. Anyone 
