PARK AND CEMETERY. 
A Monthly Journal of Landscape Gardening and Kindred Arts. ^ 
VOL. IX. Chicag;o, December, 1899. NO. 10. 
CONTENTS. 
EDITORIAL — The Year' Benelicencie.s — The Demaml for 
Nursery Stock — Adyertising Signs on the Landscape- 
Flower Shows and Education — A Retro.spect — Munici- 
pal Art 205, 206 
^Grouping for Instruction 207 
Agricultural Schools 208 
a' N ote on Earlr- Chrysantheniunis and Co.snios 209 
M'alks and Drives 210 
■''■Cinnamon and other Ferns 21 1 
■•Mlvergreen Cemetery, Portland, Me 212 
■■'■The Ru.ssian Olive Again 213 
Plant Nomenclature, I 214 
■^'The Patterson Monument, Hartford, Conn 215 
■^'Improvement Associations 216 
■"Transplanting Large Trees *. 217 
■"■Garden Plants — Their Geography, XL\T 1 1 218 
Landscape Forestry 219 
Park Notes 220 
Cemetery Notes 221 
Recent Legal Decisions 
Selected Notes and Extracts '^•^3 
Reviews of Books, Report"?, Etc 
* Illustrated. 
1 1 E year about to close has been unprecedented 
in its number of donations and bequests for 
educational, memorial and public benificen- 
cies, the sum total of which amounts in value to 
very many millions of dollars. The latest and al- 
together worthy of record is that of Mr. P. A. B. 
Widener, the Philadelphia financier, who gives real 
estate and money to the extent of some $2,000,000 
to establish a home, training school and hospital 
for crippled and deformed children, than whom we 
have no more pitiable and worthy objects upon 
which to lavish superfluous wealth. Mr. Widener 
has long been considering the project, and is in- 
tending it as a memorial to his deceased wife. It will 
however redound to his own eternal credit. It is to 
be carried out in every way to accord with advanced 
ideas, which will include beautiful grounds and ac- 
cessories. The cause of education has been the re- 
cipient of much consideration in the way of dona- 
tions, while what immediately interests us is the 
large number of gifts of land for park and improve- 
ment pui poses that have been made by public spir- 
ited citizens. Indeed the widespread interest that 
is continually being manifested in the direction of 
establishing park systems in our growing towns and 
wide awake villages, and the increasing number of 
Improvement societies which arc being promoted 
for the purpose of encouraging better conditions in 
our national life, is a remarkable indication of the 
trend of activity in the immediate future in a;sthe- 
tic progress. 
O NE of the results of the prosperous conditions 
now prevailing throughout the country is 
seen in the unusually large demand for nur 
sery stock, which in many localities is practically 
exhausted. This naturally promises that • spring 
planting will be heavier than in many years, with- 
out considering that the long and favorable fall may 
have in certain respects anticipated some of the 
work generally deferred until spring. However, the 
nurserymen are to be congratulated on the in- 
crease of business; and the attention being given to 
art out-of-doors, the improvement of waste places, 
the planting of depleted areas, as well as the wide- 
spread interest in park and cemetery development, 
make the closing year of the century a happy har- 
binger of rapid advance in these lines of work 
which are destined to create marvelous changes in 
local conditions. 
O NE of the important questions discussed at 
the last meeting of the American Park and 
Out-door Art Association was that of the 
disfigurement of the landscape, its highways, and 
even the conspicuous points in our villages and 
towns by advertising signs and like objectionable 
features, and a committee was appointed to formu- 
late an appeal to the public to cause the removal of 
the offenses. To make the effort more immediately 
effective the managers of our parks and cemeter- 
ies and all associated with out-door improvement 
should foster agitation in every available direction 
to secure the removal of the obnoxious signboard 
and advertising nuisance. The local press should 
be induced to join in the effort to educate the peo- 
ple, by showing up the objections to this marring 
of the landscape, and there might follow recourse 
to the legislature to enact such legislation as would 
enable the local authorities to enforce its rulings. 
As an example of prompt action in this direction 
we note in the petition of the Quincy, Illinois, Boule- 
vard and Park Association, to the Board of Super- 
visors of Adams County, asking the favorable con- 
sideration of the Board in the matter of improving 
the school grounds and soldiers’ home, a suggestion 
