PARK AND CEMETERY 
and Landscape Gardening. 
VOL. X. Chicago, July, 1900. NO. 5 
CONTENTS. 
EDITORIAL — Tree Wardens in Massachusetts — The 
Appalachian National Park — The Bill-Board Nuisance 
— Children’s Play Grounds and Gardens — Improve the 
Cemetery 101-102 
'Azalea Mollis and Ghent Varieties 103 
Rhododendrons 103 
“Sargent’s Weeping Hemlock 104 
Construction and Destruction 104 
*The Parks of St. Paul, Minn. . . 106 
Park Roads 109 
Utilization of Waste Lands in Towns iii 
“Memorial Day at Muskegon, Mich. — Liming the Soil — 
Correspondence 112 
“Improvement Associations 114 
'Administration Building, Oak Hill Cemetery, Evansville, 
Ind 1 15 
Seasonable Suggestions 116 
Notes, Chiefly Historical, on London Burial Places 117 
Worcester Meeting of the New England Park Superin- 
tendents 
“Garden Plants — Their Geography, LV 119 
Park Notes 120 
Cemetery Notes 1 2 1 
Selected Notes and Extracts 122 
Reviews of Books, Reports, etc 123 
* Illustrated. 
TREE 
WARDENS IN 
MASSACHUSETTS 
In 1899 the state of Massachu- 
setts enacted a law providing for 
the annual election of a tree war- 
den in every town of the state, with the power to 
appoint deputies where expedient, and at the elec- 
tions this past spring with the exception of a few 
places such officers were elected. 'Ihe duties of the 
tree warden according to this law are: the care and 
control of all public shade trees of the town except 
such as may be under the jurisdiction of park com- 
missioners and these he may care for if requested 
by said officials; the expenditure of all funds pro- 
vided for the setting out and maintenance of such 
trees; the prescribing of regulations and the agree- 
ment of suitable fines and forfeitures to be approved 
by the selectmen; the enforcement of all provisions 
of law for the preservation of such trees. The law 
also permits annual appropriations for the work, 
and prescribes procedure to be adopted in the cut- 
ting or removal of public shade trees or those in 
residential districts. It also provides for the ex- 
termination of insect pests, decrees punishments for 
the defacement and injury of trees either from per- 
sonal wantonness or carelessness, and against injury 
and destruction by animals not duly controlled. 
This law should suggest to all interested in the tree 
question, that it is a vastly important one and is 
being recognized as such wherever the subject is 
appreciated, and appreciation can be brought about 
by education. 
the The Appalachian National Park 
NATWNAL^PA^K. Purpose of appointing 
a committee to investigate the 
forest conditions of the Appalachian Mountains in 
western North Carolina, was passed by both houses 
of Congress, and became a law on July ist. The 
bill carries with it an appropriation of $5,000 and 
the committee will be appointed by the president, 
with instructions to make the investigation this sum- 
mer and report to congress at its next session. 
This is the initial success in the effort to establish 
the Appalachian National Park, which means the 
preservation for the people of one of the most 
beautiful sections of the country. Its location and 
characteristics have gained for it an enthusiastic 
recommendation from all quarters, and the pro- 
gress thus far is a matter of sincere congratulation 
to all those whose energy has contributed to the re- 
sult. It is a well considered project against which 
there has apparently been no dissentient voice, and 
the fact that it is the only bill of the kind that was 
passed by both houses at the last session of congress 
attests the character of the project and the right- 
eousness of its claim for public consideration. The 
action of congress should encourage the friends and 
promoters of this southern park to continue strenu- 
ously in the good work until the end. 
THE The efforts of the Municipal Art League 
of Chicago to control the “Bill Board” 
NUISANCE. . . . 
nuisance has at last borne fruit. An 
ordinance has been passed by the Chicago City 
Council looking to the regulation of this objection- 
able feature of commercial activity in the city thor- 
oughfares. Some of its features are: Bill boards 
shall not contain more than too square feet of area, 
and shall not exceed ten feet in height. They must 
be of incombustible material and stand at least three 
feet from the ground. They must not be set within 
25 feet of the street line. A strong provision is that 
requiring the consent of the owners of three quarters 
of the frontage on each side of the block before 
bill boards can be erected on the boulevards. Vio- 
lators of the ordinance must pay an annual rental of 
50 cents per foot to the city. It would have been 
a good thing to be able to abolish such disfigurements 
