PARK AND CEMETERY 
and Landscape Gardening. 
VOL. X. Chicago, April, 1900. N0.2. 
CONTENTS. 
EDITORIAL — An Important Convention — .State Parks — 
Ouincy, 111 ., Parks and the People — Children in Out- 
door Work — Apathy in Cemetery Work — Statuary in 
the New York Parks 27, 28 
*Cambridge Field, Cambridge, Ma.ss 29 
Public Play Grounds 31 
*The Live Oak 33 
*Some Ornainental Shrubs, II 34 
^Itnprovement Associations ' 36 
*Crematory Chapel and Administration Building, Mount 
Auburn Cemeter}^ Cambridge, Mass 38 
Perpetual Care of Cemeteries on the Installment Plan 38 
Sea,sonable Suggestions 39 
^Labels for Plants and Trees 40 
N-otes, Chiefly Historical on London Burial Places, 1 42 
*The Point of Observation 44 
*Water Lilies and other Aquatic Plants, III 45 
^Garden Plants — Their Geography, LH 47 
Park Notes 48 
Cemetery Notes 49 
Selected Notes and Extracts 50 
Reviews of Books, Reports, Etc 51 
* Illustrated. 
AN 
important 
CONVENTION 
The approaching convention of the 
American Park and Out-door i\rt 
Association to be held at the Art In- 
stitute, Chicago, in the first week in June, is now 
within measurable distance so far as time is con- 
cerned. The several committees charged with the 
duties incident upon the success of the convention 
are busy on the plans, and it may freely be antici- 
pated that the coming convention will have a most 
important bearing not only on the progress of out- 
door decoration as regards landscape work, but also 
in connection with municipal improvement gen- 
erally. 
STATE There is a suggestion in a recent issue of the 
PARKS Portland, Me., “Board of Trade Journal” 
concerning the setting apart of a particularly beau- 
tiful lake with i.ts forest and scenic surroundings as 
a state park, and advocating its immediate acquisi- 
tion to avoid its desecration at the hands of com- 
merce. To come at once to the point, it has now 
become a duty for every state to set apart special 
natural features which may be possessed, not only 
for the recreation but the education of its citizens. 
The failure to do this in the past by the older states 
has become a source of keen regret to the people, 
and is costing large expenditures to secure what is 
now possible in this direction. The establishment 
of public state parks means much to any state; it 
provides opportunities of enjoyment and travel to 
large numbers of its citizens, and invites attention 
from the people at large. It may be made a strong 
educational feature by affording a means of con- 
serving the flora and fauna of the state, and prop- 
erly cared for will be a standing monument to the 
wisdom of the generation providing it. Another 
suggestion is that the power of the state press 
should exercise itself to the end of securing such 
tracks, and there are several of such national im- 
portance as to call for urgent work, notably the 
Calaveras grove of Giant Sequoias, in California, 
the Appalachian park in the south, the Minnesota 
National park., etc. The newspaper is a power for 
good, and the field presented is worthy of much 
hard work to secure results. 
QUINCY, ILL., Devotion to a cause and sustained 
THE^PEOPLE advocating it at every pos- 
sible opportunity is the secret of the 
success of many an important public measure. 
This is excellently illustrated in the work acce m- 
plished by the Quincy Park and Boulevard Asso- 
ciation of Ouincy, 111., an association of interested 
citizens, who appreciating the ethical and material 
value of parks for a growing city determinedly set 
to work to secure the boon. The effect of their 
continued effort has been the acquisition of a con- 
siderable area of improved parks, and with pros- 
pects of greater facilities and means for their care 
and maintenance. The freedom from political influ- 
ence and bias has secured to the gentlemen of the 
association not only the respect of the citizens of 
affluence but that of the working men also. One 
of the latter recently remarked to the secretary that; 
“If your association is willing to labor so hard 
without pay for the improvement of our beautiful 
parks that the working men, their families, and the 
public in general may have beautiful and free out- 
ing places in which to enjoy their Sundays and 
evenings, I feel that the least we working men can 
do is to vote for the one mill increase in the park 
tax, as it will be a mere trifle to each tax-payer.” 
CHILDREN IN One of the hitherto unlooked-to fact- 
WT-WOR ors in the problems pertaining to vil- 
lage improvement and out-door home 
surroundings is that of the children, but a great deal 
of attention is at last being given to the question. 
