PARK AND CEMETERY 
and Landscape Gardening. 
VOL. X. Chicag:©, February, 1901. NO. 12 
CONTENTS. 
EDITORIAL— Proposed Appalachian Park — Cemetery Im- 
provements — Park Finances — Perpetual Care — The 
Bill- Board Nuisance — Progress of Outdoor Improve- 
ment 269, 270 
Seasonable Suggestions 271 
Notes and Comments in the Forest 272 
’Improvement Associations 273 
*The Viburnums 275 
^Entrance and Office Building, Bloomington Cemetery, 
Bloomington, 111 277 
Plant Nomenclature 278 
Newnham Park, England, 278 
*A Home Planting 279 
*Public Meetings in the Manchester, England, Parks 279 
Old English Gardens 280 
*Garden Plants — Their Gecgraphy, LXII 282 
^Correspondence 284 
Park Notes 285 
Cemetery Notes 286 
Selected Notes and Extracts 287 
Reviews of Books, Reports, Etc 2S8 
* Illustrated. 
TROPOSEH Good progress is being made on 
APPALACHIAN project to create a national 
park in the southern Appalachian 
region of western North Carolina and other states, 
a measure noted in previous issues. There are 
few sections in the country more favorably located 
to invite government aid in securing them to the 
people, and there are few more abundantly fur- 
nished with natural beauty and exhilarating cli- 
matic conditions. The proposed area embraces a 
portion of the states of Virginia, North Carolina, 
South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama and Tennessee, 
and it is located about the head waters of the Ohio, 
Tennessee, Savannah, Yadkin and Roanoke rivers. 
It is largely covered with hardwood timber of the 
choicest description and is within a day’s journey 
of the majority of American citizens. The report 
of the Secretary of Agriculture is very favorable to 
its being set apart as a national forest reserve, 
which will not militate at all, under proper regu- 
lations, against the park idea, but will assure its 
care and culture under government direction. The 
President recommends the report of the Secretary 
of Agriculture to Congress and we may hope that 
the bill before Congress carrying ap'^J^riation 
for the purchase of the necessary aciTPjj^will be- 
fore long be passed. The widespr^/^i^ntelligent 
interest in the project demands pY^^t attention 
by both branches of Congress. 
CESMETERY There are two striking features 
IMTT^VEMENTS calling for improvement, in our 
rural cemeteries especially, which this time of year 
serves to emphasize and which it would be well to 
consider at this opening of a new century. They 
are poor approaches and barrenness of aspect. It 
is hard to credit a community with due and proper 
respect for its departed, when appearances of the 
burial ground only indicate the desire to secure 
space in which to deposit the remains. Oftentimes 
scarce a bush or a single tree is to be observed. 
Cold and cheerless in winter, garish and sun-dried 
in summer. No rustling of leaves, no waving of 
branch or garland of flowers in the summer breeze. 
It is needless to continue the picture but it may be 
suggested that this could not be said if a sprinkling 
of decorative bushes were appropriately placed or 
a few trees advantageously disposed to create a di- 
versity of scene. Let every community to whom 
this appeals see to it that a scheme is at once set on 
foot to change such distressing conditions. Then 
as to approaches, a country funeral in the fall, 
winter and spring seasons is more or less a dismal 
performance on account of the roads. At least the 
roads surrounding the cemetery should be main- 
tained in good travelling condition. The expense 
need not be great, and were they needed for com- 
mercial purposes a remedy would soon be found. 
And the improvement association could readily 
make this a prominent feature of their program to 
the intense satisfaction of all concerned. A few 
loads ofgravel intelligently used with some thought 
to drainage will make a good beginning on the 
cemetery approaches and may be continued as 
rapidly as funds and labor can be secured. 
PARK of the serious menaces to the wel- 
FINANCES fare of city parks is the control of their 
finances by the city fathers, whose conclusions on 
the subject of appropriations tor such purposes are 
frequently dictated by influences not by any means 
related to park ethics and often by capriciousness. 
While there must, in the public interest, always 
be provided some regulations governing the action 
of the park officials or commissioners, there should 
be also certain sources of income assured to the 
parks. Parks are such an essential to public wel- 
fare that their maintenance and care should not be 
dependent on political or even economical uncer- 
