PARK AND CEMETERY 
and Landscape Gardening. 
VOL. X. Chicag;o, May, 1900. NO. 3. 
CONTENTS. 
EDITORIAL. — The Chicago Convention of the American 
Park and Out-door Art Association — Further Influences 
of Arbor Day — Work for the Women’s Club — Need of 
Improvement in our Snialler Cities — A good Fkxample 
to Follow — Improve the Vacant Places 53, 
*The Camperdown Film — Popular Maples 
Salix Babylonica. (The Weeping Willow) 
*The Improvement of Railway Station Orounds 
Refinement in Plants. — Plant Patterns Among the Oraves. 
’Municipal Art 
Programme of Chicago Convention of Park and Out-door 
Art As-sociations 
■^Improvement A.ssociations 
Seasonable Suggestions 
Notes, Chiefly Historical on London Burial Places 
^Office, Chapel and Receiving Vault, Wildwood Cemetery, 
Williamsport, Pa 
’Magnolia vSoulangeana 
^Garden Plants — Their Geography, LIU 
Park Notes 
Cemetery Notes 
Correspondence 
Selected Notes and Extracts 
Reviews of Books, Reports, Fltc 
* Illustrated. 
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AMERICAN PARK 
AND OUT-DOOR 
ART ASSOCIATION 
The convention of the American 
Park and Out-door Art Associa- 
tion to be held at the Art Insti- 
tute, Chicago, June 5'7) promises to be a meeting 
of exceptional interest and sure to be followed by 
practical results, if we may judge from the after ef- 
fects of previous conventions. The association 
while young in years has attracted wide-spread at- 
tention and is yearly growing in membership. It 
is an organization which includes in its membership 
public spirited citizens, professional and lay, who 
may become impressed with the vast benefits that 
may be derived, socially and commercially, from 
improved conditions in the out-of-door appearances 
of both city and country, and its proceedings and 
activities are instructive and suggestive. The main 
features of the programme will be found in another 
column, and the arrangements are in the hands of 
well known citizens of Chicago in conjunction with 
the parks authorities, and it is quite safe to predict 
that the meeting, under the auspices attending its 
proceedings, will mark a great stride in the cause 
of municipal and out door improvement gener- 
ally. 
FURTHER Arbor Day, which is now a thing 
INFLUENCES OF of the past in many states for this 
ARBOR DAY year, has been observed in many 
localities in a much broader sense than that pertain- 
ing to the simple fact of tree planting. It has come 
to mean much more, and where we have so much 
bleakness and barrenness in out door appearances 
in so many places, the term is being expanded to 
include out-door improvement generally. Institu- 
ted as an incentive to schoolchildren, the wisdom 
of its originator partook of the prophetic, and while 
in the schools it is becoming a day of broad edu- 
cational import and a developer of latent taste and 
ambition in a line of endeavor of untold possibili- 
ties in relation to the public good, it has already 
overflowed the school into the and Arbor Day 
in the family is now a factor tending to urge a 
policy of improvement about the home, which is 
emphasized as each recurring Arbor Day rolls 
round. It has, however, also impressed its impor- 
tance upon the public press, than which there is no 
more powerful friend in a good cause. Beginning 
with the cause of forestry, to which Arbor Day has 
lent Itself with much force, and which the press has 
taken up with marked results, it is now pushing the 
question of the improvement of school grounds with 
much energy and it may be relied on to achieve re- 
sults of lasting benefit. There can be nothing 
more discouraging to the ambitious youthful mind 
than the mean and miserably bleak schoolhouse 
which generally confronts him as he wanders 
towards his daily tasks. The scholar would have 
revolted long ago but for his “untutored mind;” 
now however his eyes are being opened and the 
work of improvement must be a question of the im- 
mediate future. 
WORK 
FOR THE 
WOMEN'S CLUBS 
The work of the Women’s Clubs 
of the country, where the subjects 
of out-door art and municipal im- 
provement has been included in their activities, 
has been marked by unvarying success, which 
might have been expected from the characteristic 
energy and devotion of the sex to a worthy cause. 
It has been exemplified quite recently in the influ- 
ence exercised at Washington by delegates from 
Minnesota in connection with the proposed national 
park, as well as in practical reforms rapidly matur- 
ing in relation to out-of-door improvements in other 
parts of the country. It is gratifying to note in this 
connection, that at the convention of the General 
Federation of Women’s Clubs to be held in 
Milwaukee, Wis., in June, two of the important 
papers are directly related to the subject; Mrs. 
Zulime Tatt Garland, sculptor, will deliver an illus- 
trated lecture on “The Possibilities of Sculpture in 
our Cities and Towns,” and Dr. George Kriehn, 
Ph. D., will lecture on “Municipal Art in Amer- 
ica,” which will also be illustrated. The cause of 
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