PARK AND CEMETERY. 
A Monthly Journal of Landscape Gardening and Kindred Arts. ^ 
VOL. IX. Chicago, January, 1900. NO.IL 
CONTENTS. 
EDITORIAL — A Review — Cemeterj' Work — Labelling 
Trees — Bills in Congress — Public Schools and Nature 
Study — A Retrospect — New Copyright Law 225, 226 
■^Japanese Maples 227 
Plant Nomenclature II 230 
*Whippingham Church, Isle of Wight, England 231 
*The Hecker Mausoleum, Woodward Lawn Cemetery, 
Detroit, Mich 233 
Cemeteries as They Are and as The}^ Might Be 233 
*Improvement Associations 235 
*Garden Plants — Their Geography, XLIX 237 
Park Notes 239 
Cemetery Notes 240 
Michigan State Horticultural Society — Legal — Correspond- 
ence 241 
Selected Notes and Extracts 242 
Reviews of Books, Reports, Etc ... 243 
* Illustrated. 
T is scarcely possible in these marvellous years 
through which this generation is passing to 
enter upon a new one without taking time to 
breathe and reconnoitre the field. Turn which way 
we will, and fasten the mind upon any particular 
feature of human progress, and a marked advance 
may be noted. Even the arbitrary demands of trade 
are being met by that keen opposition which en- 
lightenment throws into the breach, when.it asserts 
that thus far shalt thou encroach upon the higher 
domain of culture, and, then erects a barrier within 
which the exigencies of business exercise no de- 
trimental force. The idea that has up to quite a 
recent date prevailed in our large cities that open 
plots and marginal spaces about public buildings 
is waste real estate, is rapidly becoming a fallacy of 
the past, it might more properly be called criminal 
ignorance, for to remedy the evils it has created 
vast sums of money will have to be expended, and 
in many respects the evil is beyond the ordinary 
means of readjustment. That this is no exaggera- 
tion the multitude of projects for the embellishment 
ofthe cities throughout the length and breadth of our 
land will attest. Nor is it alone in the matter of 
public improvement that such pronounced attention 
is being given. The people themselves in many 
localities are beginning to devote themselves to the 
improvement of the conditions about their homes. 
The public press is exerting its influence; the horti- 
cultural societies are generally incorporating into 
their programmes for their periodical gatherings, 
papers and discussions relating to the improvement 
of home grounds and the planting material suitable 
for the purpose. This is one of the most important 
features of national progress, fraught with possibili- 
ties almost beyond conception, in its tendency to 
make an ideal national home life. 
U P to the present time the cemetery superin- 
tendent has been corigratulating himself on 
the fact that winter affords him opportunity 
to recuperate and to form plans for future work. 
The methods now being adopted by contractors — 
that of erecting large vaults under enclosures, 
which are heated to provide against the effects of 
inclement weather — will tend to keep the superin- 
tendent on the qui vive, and provide him with re- 
sponsibility hitherto unexpected. So far as the 
cemetery is concerned these innovations have 
their advantages, not the least being that the ceme- 
tery may be saved a large proportion of the un- 
sightliness of building operations in the summer 
season. 
W HILE Boston may be in the throes of a dis- 
cussion relative to the propriety or ad- 
visability of attaching sufficiently descrip- 
tive labels to the works of art in public museums, 
no question will be raised on the matter of labelling 
trees and plants in our public grounds, gardens and 
conservatories. In point of fact it would be an ex- 
cellent idea for every lover of plant life to label any 
specimen he might possess on his grounds, out of 
the ordinary or having special characteristics. No 
matter how charmed an observer might be by the 
beauties of tree or shrub, a knowledge of the name 
and class of the object, would not only tend to 
stamp special points upon his memory, but it would 
create an interest which would be disseminated over 
the whole class as its members were encountered. 
