PARK AND CEMETERY 
and Landscape Gardening. 
VOL. X. Chicago, June, 1900. NO. 4 
CONTENTS. 
EDITORIAL — The American Park and Outdoor Art Asso- 
ciation — Public Interest in Landscape Gardening — 
Inspiration for Improvement Associations — Park Con- 
solidation — A Photographic Plxhibit of Landscape Art 
— Landscape Art in Cemeteries 77, 78 
*The Fourth Annual Convention of the American Park and 
Outdoor Art Association 79 
^Western Boulevard Trees 87 
*The Fleischmami Mausoleum, Spring Grove Cemetery, 
Cincinnati, 0 88 
* Improvement Associations 90 
Trees in Composition 91 
Municipal Improvement 92 
Seasonable Suggestions 94 
^Garden Plants — Their Geography, LIV 95 
Park Notes 97 
Cemetery Notes 98 
Selected Notes and Extracts 99 
Reviews of Books, Reports, Etc 100 
* Illustrated. 
THE AMERICAN Tke fourth annual conven- 
American Park 
ART ASSOCIATION. . ^ , 
and Out-door rlrt Associa- 
tion held in Chicago in the early days of the month, 
points to a still greater stride in the progress of this 
association. Quiet enthusiasm seemed to prevail and 
the reports that were submitted by the several com- 
mittees assigned to the work, showed that great ac- 
tivity and devotion to the cause was not a matter 
only of the annual meeting but was the habit of the 
association. The report of the proceedings and 
some of the papers read will be found elsewhere in 
this issue, and will afford instructive and sugges- 
tive reading to all desirous of improvement in the 
directions advocated. That the association has al- 
ready entered upon its mission, and that that mis- 
sion was waiting to be filled, is well illustrated by 
the fact that the results of each of its previous con- 
ventions has been to greatly stimulate the workers 
in the cause of out-door improvement and to bring 
about accomplished facts. In each of the cities 
hitherto visited in convention it is unhesitatingly 
declared that much good has actually resulted from 
the proceedings as educational facts, as well as 
from the influence of contact with men anxious to 
disseminate ideas which training and experience 
have denunstrated to be timely and uplifting. The 
effect of the meeting is already exerting a powerful 
nfluence in Chicago. It has stimulated the re- 
formers to greater exertions, has shown to the pub- 
lic the actual need of the reforms advocated in 
terms suited to their intelligence, and has discussed 
the possibilities in so persuasive and instructive a 
manner, that before the enthusiasm subsides there 
is hardly a doubt but that steps will be taken to 
secure some of the advantages promised. The bill 
board nuisance is already before the city council 
for some action. 
TUBLIC encouraging sign of the times is 
INTETiEST IN the wide-spread interest observable 
^A^fStwG tends to improve the con- 
ditions of our out-door surroundings. 
Especially is this noticeable at the meetings of socie- 
ties and clubs not primarily organized to promote 
such matters, but which have caught the enthusiasm 
and are lending a willing hand in the good work. 
One cannot examine the reports of the current pro- 
ceedings of the Women’s Clubs, Municipal Art 
Leagues, Horticultural Societies, etc., without be- 
ing impressed with the idea that the question of the 
improvement of public and private grounds is one 
that is becoming more and more appreciated as a 
necessity in our progressive development. Topics 
are discussed at these meetings which have a highly 
educational influence in the community, and being 
made important questions in associations of such di- 
verging interests it tends to diffuse the informa- 
tion and beget reciprocal consideration from the 
masses. It is quite natural that the architectural 
and sculptural societies should encourage and aid 
in the work, as it must in a measure redound to 
their success. But all the efforts above referred to 
find further development through the Improvement 
Associations which are now to be found in every 
progressive community, and it may from this be 
seen what an impetus this commendable object has 
already received. 
INSTIRATION Fresh inspiration for the cause 
of Improvement Associations, 
in which we and our readers 
should feel such deep interest, is bound to be the 
outcome of. the recent annual meeting of the Park 
and Outdoor Art Association held in Chicago. At 
this meeting a woman’s auxiliary was organized 
which will form a connecting link between the asso- 
