PARK AND CEMETERY 
and Landscape Gardening. 
VOL. X. Chicagfo, January, 1901, NO. II 
CONTENTS. 
EDITORIAI. — Boston Honors Frederick I.aw Olms'ed — 
('rovernment a id the National Parks — Care of Street 
Trees — The Bill Board Nuisance — Progress in Ceuieterj' 
Work — The Palisades of the Hudson 245, 
*B2ech Trees 
P'lowering Trees for O inmentdl Planting, III — 
’The Th'irlow Willow 
■*I)iervilla Pitecox 
Street Tree — Protection of Street Trees 
“•Railway Station Oroun^s at Millis, Mass 
’Improvement Associations— Interesting the Public in Im- 
provement Work 
The Park Sy-'tem of Syiiney, Aus'ralia 
*The G orge M. Pullman Memorial, Graceland Cemetery, 
Chicago 
Paths and Principles 
’The Grand Avenue of Pere la Chaise, Paris, France 
H. W. S. Cleveland 
Old English Gardens. . . ; 
*Garden Plants — Their Geography, LXI 
Correspondence 
Park N ntes 
Cemetery Notes 
Selected Notes and Flxtracts 
Reviews of Books, Reports, Fltc 
Illustrated. 
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BOSTON The old saying that a “prophet 
is not without honor, save in his 
own country, has received a nota- 
ble rebuke in the action of the Board of Park 
Commissioners of Boston, Mass., who at a recent 
meeting passed a resolution to the effect that the 
parks, hitherto known as Leverett Park and Jamaica 
Park, shall be jointly called Olmsted Park, in honor 
of I'rederick Law Olmsted, the. noted landscape 
architect. It is unnecessary here to mention the 
very many important public parks and grounds 
designed and carried out by Mr. Olmsted, to say 
nothing of his large private practice, but it is con- 
ceded on all sides that, broadly viewing his works 
and the genius and knowledge that they display, he 
is the foremost in his profession in the country. It 
is gratifying to realize that this unprecedented 
honor to a rapidly rising profession is bestowed 
upon the honored while yet in active practice, for 
although in advanced years, Mr. Olmsted, at 76, 
still devises landscape plans and pictures in 
co-operation with the other members of the firm of 
which he is the head. 
national The National Park idea has merit 
TANKS and public welfare enough associated 
with it to make it a strong feature of early twen- 
tieth century congressional activity. It is a ques- 
tion that interests the people at large, and every 
state possessing natural picturesque forest tracts, 
should be aided by governmental action to pre- 
serve the same for the people, and it has also been 
suggested that the treeless states should be assisted 
to create public parks by forest plantings and 
otherwi.ve. Now is the time to take up just such 
ciuestions, and present opportunities and possibili- 
ties may never again offer themselves under such 
promising conditions. 
CARE OF A. recent bulletin of the Connec- 
STREET TREES ticut Agricultural Experiment 
Station on the Protection of Shade Trees in Towns 
and Cities, most emphatically suggests the advisa- 
bility of the appointment of a City P'orester to 
whose care the city and city park trees should be 
committed. The bulletin discusses in detail the 
many facts in tree culture and care that must be 
provided for, and this in itself would convince the 
reader that there is far more in the subject than he 
had dreamed of. There is a vast difference in the 
conditions pertaining to the flourishing shade tree 
in the village and in the town, and even in the 
former intelligent care is needed to offset the lack 
of natural conditions of which the tree’s present 
surroundings have deprived it; how much more is 
such care needed for the trees of our towns and 
cities? So much special knowledge and intelli- 
gence is required for this work that every city and 
town should provide itself with a man qualified for 
the work. The City Forester in any important 
town would find ample opportunity for the effec- 
tive display of his resources and the returns to the 
community would far overbalance the salary paid. 
the Workers in the cause of reducing to a 
minimum the billboard nuisance with 
NUISANCE . r • 1 ... 
a view ot entirely suppressing it where 
possible, continue active and are receiving gener- 
ous support from the press, wherever that local 
power has been led to appreciate the meaning 
of the crusade. It is, while a work of great im- 
portance, likewise one of great difficulty, by reason 
of its association with private interests. It is, how- 
ever, attracting unii’ersal attention and in many 
localities steps have been taken whereby a limit 
has been placed on the abuse. No terms are too 
expressive in condemnation of the extent to which 
this class of advertising has been carried. Whien 
many years ago some enterprising manufacturer 
astonished tourists . at the Pyramids of Egypt 
