PARK AND CEMETERY. 
^ 4 Monthly Journal of Landscape Gardening and Kindred Arts. ^ 
VOL. IX. Chicagfo, February, 1900. NO. 1 2. 
CONTENTS. 
EDITORIAL — The Appalachian National Park — Harvard 
Course in Landscape Gardening — Arbor Day — Women 
as Park Landscape Gardeners — Improvements in Me- 
morial Designs 245, 246 
■’'‘The Clark Memorial, Forest Hills Cemetery, Boston, Ma.ss. 247 
Arbor Da}- 248 
Water Lilies and other Aquatics 249 
*The Parks of Mansfield, 0 250 
*An Avenue of Castor Oil Plants 252 
^Magnolia Glauca 253 
^Improvement Associations 254 
Plant Nomenclature, HI 256 
Grafting of Trees 257 
Printed Labels for Living Plants 257 
*Garden Plants — Their Geography, L 25S 
Park Notes 259 
Cemetery Notes 260 
Correspondence — Legal 261 
Selected Notes and Extracts 262 
Reviews of Books, Reports, Pltc 263 
* Illustrated. 
T would be scarcely possible to select a section 
of country more desirable for a National park 
than that which the Appalachian National 
Park Association is agitating to secure. The tract 
comprises the territory contiguous to the great 
Smoky Mountain Range, e.xtending into Tennessee 
and West North Carolina, on either side. Its west- 
ern boundary is the western line of Graham County, 
N. C., and its eastern line is the eastsideof Yancey 
County, N. C. , and it probably contains in the 
neighborhood of 500,000 acres. Within its sug- 
gested bounds is some of the grandest and most 
beautiful scenery in the world; primeval forest, 
mountain peaks and flowery vales, waterscape and 
landscape as varied as can be conceived, and withal 
a climate that lends itself to natures choicest pic- 
tures as well as to reinvigorating exhausted human- 
ity. It is gratifying to note that the association is 
receiving much encouragement from all sections of 
the country. The location is central; it is within 
easy distance of an immense population, it offers 
advantages no': surpassed, if indeed equalled, by 
any of the areas already set apart by the govern- 
ment, and besides the park idea, it demands public 
care in that it is the watershed of a large area of 
country, which if submitted to the grasp of com- 
merce will mean vast discomfort and possible dis- 
aster to large communal interests. Congress can- 
not err in favorably acting upon the petition of the 
association and it devolves upon individuals hav- 
ing any influence in our national affairs to use it in 
the direction of securing prompt action. 
L andscape gardening is to become a spec- 
ial course of study in Harvard University, a 
preliminary announcement having been is- 
sued by the Lawrence Scientific School of that in- 
stitution. The course will be of four years dura- 
tion and it will finally lead to the degree of S. B. 
Theory and practice will be combined to assure a 
thorough training for the calling, and the Arnold 
Arboretum and Bussey Institute will contribute 
their share to this end. The American Architect 
sounds a warning on the point that the other uni- 
versities will follow Harvard’s lead with the possi- 
ble result that the profession, which now has prob- 
ably more practitioners than paying commissions 
offer tor their practice, may be overcrowded. This 
happened many years ago in the case of the civil 
engineering profession when serious financial de- 
pression followed an era of unparalleled railroad 
construction, and the ranks of the civil engineers 
which had been crowded with recruits from every 
known college in the country, found literally no 
employment and salaries at laborer’s rates. As in 
that case so would it be in the present; the educa- 
tion imparted is of such a broad character that other 
channels of occupation are open, and the final result 
a more diffused enlightenment in matters of art for 
which there is always great need. 
A THOUGHT over the increasing sentiment in 
relation to the improvement of the surround- 
ings of our homes and public buildings can 
be traced, more than to any other cause, to the 
recognition of Arbor Day and the exercises then 
conducted. It has always been held, and correctly 
too, that to promote with any degree of certainty 
as to results, a reform which affects the life of the 
people, we must begin with the young in the pub- 
lic school, so we realize that the institution of Ar- 
bor Day finding its best function in the public 
school, has already exerted an influence far reach- 
ing in its potency. There can be no more bene- 
ficial exercise for the young intellect than nature 
study, it promotes the investigating spirit, and as 
each new development is reached, interest is sharp- 
ened and the study becomes pleasure. This forms 
an excellent auxiliary for the work to be promoted 
by Arbor Day. Interest and love of plant life •re- 
