PARK AND CEMETERY 
and Landscape Gardening. 
VOL. X. Chicag^o, March, 1900. NO. 1 . 
CONTENTS. 
EDITORIAL — Park and Cemetery Appointments — The 
City Heautifnl — Care of Street Tree.s — Country Ceme- 
terie.s — Tree Planting Associations i, 2 
*The Birches 3 
*The Parks of Cleveland, 0 5 
*An Ideal Cemetery cS 
■^Decorative Planting for Railroad Station Oronnds 10 
Arbor Day — Some Practical Thoughts. . 12 
■^'Magnolia Kobns 14 
*A Study in the Arnold Arboretum 14 
Improvement A.ssociations 16 
The Man with the Shears 17 
Some Ornamental Shrubs, I 17 
Rhododendron Maximum and Kalmia Latifolia 19 
Water Lilies and other Aquatic Plants 20 
■^'Garden Plants — Their C^eograph}-, LI 21 
Park Notes 22 
Cemetery Notes 23 
Selected Notes and Plxtracts 24 
Reviews of Books, Reports, Etc 25 
* /Ihisirated. 
’PARK ANT) Recent events in park affairs in 
CEMETERY certain sections of the country have 
APPOINTMENTS , ^ 
served to emphasize the sugges- 
tions frequently made in these columns in connec- 
tion with the appointment of park and cemetery 
officials, and while it is not within the province of 
this journal to discuss politics, their entire divorce- 
ment from the control and management of public 
grounds, we are compelled to strenuously advocate. 
It is a matter of vital importance to the commun- 
ity, and one reason alone is in itself convincing. 
The comparatively brief term of office of the aver- 
age municipal appointment affords scant opportun- 
ity for the development of the plans of a conscien- 
tious and capable superintendent or engineer in the 
improvement of public places, and beyond this the 
very uncertainty in tenure of office embarrasses 
ability and diverts intelligence to a greater or less 
degree. The development of a park or cemetery 
is the work of years, and given a capable official, 
his efforts should be untrammelled by any political 
considerations whatever. It should only be a ques- 
tion of aptness and ability to enable the problems 
to be worked out to the fullest fruition for the bene- 
fit of the people. Here is an opportunity for civil 
service reform in a line of work which is only now 
receiving the attention it has urgently called for, 
and which needs to be carried on under well nigh 
ideal conditions. 
THE 
CITY 
BEAUTIFUL 
While the year 1899 witnessed abun- 
dant evidence of the trend of the times 
towards more artistic consideration in 
the improvement of our municipalities, it may fairly 
be anticipated that the current year will mark the 
beginning of practical attainment. Education is be- 
coming more transfused through the masses, and 
education leads to refinement in all our walks and 
objects in life. We cannot now endure as in days gone 
by treeless streets, crude and inappropriate archi- 
tecture, and makeshift efforts to tide things over 
to the future. Education has shown as that there is 
something more in life than mere living to accumu- 
late wealth or to attain selfish ends, that man can- 
not live by bread alone, and that he needs good, 
food for his senses as well as for his physical ne- 
cessities; and to fill a share of this need he requires 
now that our cities shall keep pace with the growth 
of his intelligence. So that we find in our large 
municipalities organizations devoted to the build- 
ing up of sentiment, ethical and practical, looking 
to the end that all future work having artistic asso- 
ciations shall be carried out under the most enl ight- 
ened views governing such work. The latest issue 
of Municipal Affairs is devoted to “The City Beau- 
tiful,” and contains a number of articles of great 
value on the several components connected with 
the idea. It is of absorbing interest to progressive 
citizens and suggests a future city of delightful as- 
sociations. We are reminded while thinking of 
this that the next meeting of the American Park and 
Out-Door Art Association will be held in the Art 
Institute of Chicago in the first days of June. The 
work of the association has already been far reach- 
ing, and the auspices under which it will carry 
through its Chicago Convention promise to react 
in an ever widening activity throughout the 
country. 
CARE In many cities a very wise provision is 
^EES^^^ made in that of placing the care of the 
shade trees under the control of the Park 
Commissioners. This avoids the attention of the 
tree butcher, who at the call of various interests prac- 
tices his ignorance to the detriment of the health and 
appearance of the street trees. The care of trees re- 
quires great intelligence in the application of our 
knowledge to their needs, and only properly qualified 
