44 
PARK AND CEMETERY. 
THE POINT OF OBSERVATION. 
The accompanying illustrations very graphically 
describe a certain feature of landscape work, what 
might be stated as a grouping of pictures presented 
to the observer in a sort of pano- 
ramic display from a point of 
observation, or within a short 
space, hither or thither, from that 
point. The point of observation 
is the controlling point in the 
development of the landscape pic- 
ture as compassed from that 
point. The more varied the 
views, and the greater number 
of points from which pictures 
may be viewed, and their variety 
and beauty in one landscape, 
measures the success of the de- 
last year, and very instructively show the effect of 
light and shadow, and their importance in a land- 
scape picture. We see the transformation from a 
light sunlit pond to a shady nook and quiet retreat. 
Background. 
Cyperus Alter. 
Egypt. Lotus. 
Nv. Luteum. 
The views given herewith 
were furnished by Mr. Sid J. 
Hare, Superintendent of Forest 
Hill Cemetery, Kansas City, Mo., 
and serve to explain the foregoing 
remarks. They were taken by 
him within a radius of fifty feet 
from a central point, and, besides illustrating the 
“point of observation,” also show the development 
of a small lake, which, as pictured on page 315 of 
Volume VI, 1896, of Park and Cemetery, was a 
dreary enough spot. The contrast is indeed an apt 
practical suggestion in the matter of “before and 
after’’ in landscape improvement. 
The views were taken one day in September of 
Locust. Locust. 
Blue Heron. 
Ny. Devoniensis. Acorus Jap. Var. 
Maple. Willow. 
Typha latifolia. Striped Grass. 
Caladiums. Acorus Jap. Var. 
Ny. Zanzibar-pink 
NO. I. — NVMPH.^iA LAKE, LOOKING WEST. 
Silver Maples. 
Blue Heron. Caladium Esculentum and Thalia Divaricata. 
Nymph?ea Dewiana, Zanzibar, Devoniensis, Luteum. 
Nymphata Devoniensis. Sagittaria Montevidiensis. Nelumbium Speciosum. 
NO. 2. — NYMPHAKA LAKE, LOOKING NORTH-EAST FROIM POINT WHERP: BLTE HERON 
STANDS IN NO. I. 
FOREST HILL CEMETERY, KANSAS CITY, MO. 
There have been many interesting developments 
in improvement in Forest Hill Cemetery, and the 
efforts put forth by the superintendent, not only in 
the work of producing attractive results, but also 
in giving publicity to the means employed and the 
effects produced, are of great advantage to the 
growing sentiment in favor of out-door embellish- 
ment. The illustrations of Nymphaea Lake given 
herewith, compared with the 
barren outlook of the illustration 
referred to, in a previous issue, is 
a veritable object lesson, of which 
no amount of verbal description 
would give an adequate idea. 
And another valuable suggestion 
is conveyed by a comparison of 
the “before and after” views, and 
that is that in such important 
schemes, where shrubbery and 
rapidly maturing plants and trees 
are employed, it takes but a few 
short years to give perfection to 
the design. This imparts an added 
interest and importance to th..' 
question of out-door improvement 
anywhere. Put adapting the 
question to the smaller cemeteries, 
such practical examples of results 
of design and knowledge of final 
effects, and the comparatively 
