PARK AND CEMETERY 
and Landscape Gardening. 
VOL. X. Chicago, November, 1900. NO. 9 
CONTENTS. 
EDITORIAL — Two Important Convention^ — The Bill- 
Board Nuisance — Park Flower Shows — Interest in 
Small Cemeteries — Care of Street Trees — The Sunday 
Funeral 197-198 
*The Park System of Manchester, England 199 
*Hope Cemetery, Barre, Vt 202 
Flowering Trees for Ornamental Planting, II 204 
*Improvement Associations — Prizes for Planting 205 
*A Summer Scene in the Isle of Wight, England 208 
*The Norfolk Island Pine, Araucaria Excelsa 209 
Seasonable Suggestions 210 
The Chicago Flower Show 21 1 
The Tree Warden Law of Ma.ssachusetts 212 
*The Adams Monument, Rock Creek Cemetery, Washing- 
ton, D. C 2J3 
•Garden Plants — Their Geography, LIX 214 
*Correspondence — Monuments in Cemeteries 216 
Park Notes 217 
Cemetery Notes 218 
Selected Notes and Extracts 219 
Reviews of Books, Reports, etc 220 
* Illustrated. 
TWO At the time of going to press two 
important conventions are about to 
be held in Chicago, that of the 
National Good Roads and Improvement Associa- 
tion and the National Irrigation Congress. The 
former will be participated in by all classes having 
the interest of good roads at heart, including official 
representatives from many of the states as well as 
professional practical men. It is a question alto- 
gether national in character, and would be a matter 
of immediate and general attention but for the fact 
of the great outlay, in a general sense, necessary 
for improvement and construction purposes. The 
actual loss to the country through the bad roads 
amounts indirectly to enormous figures, and is a 
potent argument in promoting reform. The Irri- 
gation Congress includes the discussion of all 
matters pertaining to the conservation of natural 
conditions in the matter of water supply, reforest- 
ing denuded areas of forest land and the irrigation 
of arid lands capable of agricultural development 
by irrigation methods. It is expected that practical 
results may be the outcome of these conventions. 
The advertising bill-board has become 
BILL-BOARD ^ very prominent matter in the hands 
NUISANCE devotees of Municipal Improve- 
ment in Chicago and a strong sentiment prevails to 
continue the agitation until the bill-board nuisance 
s brought within the bounds of common decency. 
Many of the most prominent men in Chicago offi 
cial public life are enlisted in this reform, and in 
spite of a strong fight in the city council an ordi- 
nance was passed in July last to effect reform, and 
this has been previously noted in these columns. 
Further efforts are now in progress to make the or- 
dinance more effective and to ensure the carrying 
out of its provisions besides further improving its 
powers. The park commissioners also realize the 
thoroughly objectionable features connected with 
bill-board advertising on the boulevards and park 
outskirts and are joining heartily in the work. The 
question of offensive public advertising is attracting 
the attention of all progressive officials. The 
mayor of Oakland, Calif., has introduced an ordi- 
nance to prohibit advertising on the street sprink- 
ling carts used in that city in the season, and no 
cart will be employed unless painted to the satis- 
faction of the superintendent of streets. In Cleve- 
land, O., an ordinance has been passed prohibiting 
the erection of any bill-board containing more than 
fifty square feet, and under its powers arrests have 
been made for violating it. The city beautiful is 
in a fair way of being realized in the future, if 
present interest can be maintained, notwithstanding 
the opposition which is manifested by those who 
are in benefit by such transgressions against public 
good taste. 
PARK Following close upon the heels of the an- 
^IWW^^ nual chrysanthemum show of the Horti- 
cultural Society of Chicago comes that of 
Lincoln Park of that city, which year by year im- 
proves in both quantity and quality. The other 
parks also offer exhibits of the “Autumn Queen’’ 
for the delectation of their localities. The question 
of floral displays in our parks is a leading one and 
from many points of view is one that should be 
seriously considered. The very fact of the drawing 
power of such exhibits, for instance the 15,000 vis- 
itors at the opening of the chrysanthemum show at 
Schenley Park, Pittsburgh, makes it not only ex- 
pedient to thus minister to public taste, but such a 
fact is in the nature of a demand upon park officials. 
It would redound to the popularity of our parks 
were such floral exhibits a matter of regular occur- 
rence, either regulated by the seasons, or by the 
time of flowering of certain widely known flower- 
ing plants. And to further popularize such refin- 
ing and educating influences as are involved in pe- 
