PARK AND CEMETERY 
and Landscape Gardening. 
Vol, XI CHICAGO, MARCH, 1901, No. 1 
CONTENTS. 
Editorial — Landscape Work at Buf¥alo — Appreciation of 
Parks — Irrigation and Available Territory — Park 
Legislation — Pauper Graves — Arbor Day — Arbitrari- 
ness in Cemetery IManagament i, 2 
*The Royal Mausoleum, Frogmore, England 3 
*Swan Point Cemetery 4 
The Five Best Roses 7 
An Insecticide for Roses 7 
*Design for Grant Park, Yonkers, N. Y 5 
*Tamarix Kaschgarica (T. Hispida Willdenow) 9 
The Bill-Boards Must Go 9 
*Improvement Associations 10 
Seasonable Suggestions for Gardeners 12 
The Influence of Public Parks on the Morality of the 
Community 13 
*Garden Plants — Their Geography, LXIII 15 
Park Notes 16 
New England Association of Park Superintendents — Ex- 
tracts from Bulletin No. 4 17 
Cemetery Notes 18 
Liability for Removal of Body 19 
*Foundations for Monuments 19 
Grass Under Trees 19 
An Obsolete Custom 19 
Reviews of Books, Reports, Etc 20 
*Illustrated. 
LANDSCAPE WORK We are promised a fine 
AT BUFFALO display of landscape art in 
the Pan-American Exposition to be held this year at 
Buffalo. We note that in this department progress 
has met with few setbacks and that the work has pro- 
ceeded satisfactorily, leading us to anticipate a possi- 
ble “second edition” of the magnificent landscape ef- 
fects of the World’s Fair at Chicago in 1893. 
they present in the summer. The conservatory and 
the lake are the two important factors for winter use 
in our parks, and these in conjunction with well de- 
signed planting and pedestrian opportunities will af- 
ford healthful pleasure and benefits to those delighting 
in exercise. The development of our park systems in 
the future will not be complete unless they provide 
for winter as well as for summer. 
IRRIGATION AND The progress of irrigation in 
AVAILABLE some of our Western States 
TERRITORY Territories, so far car- 
ried out by private enterprise, has amply demonstrated 
its value in developing arid tracts. The area of lands 
so treated would astonish the ordinary citizen. The 
extension of the practice to include the so-called great 
desert areas of the country well deserves the atten- 
tion of Congress, for it is a question of national im- 
portance looking to the magnitude of the required 
undertaking; but its importance is evident, taken 
in relation to the oft-repeated statement that the area 
of agricultural land in the hands of the government 
is so rapidly diminishing, that it will soon be entirely 
disposed of. A system of irrigation established on 
principles now advanced beyond the period of ex- 
periment, and carried out under a comprehensive and 
intelligent system, would reduce vast areas of now 
useless land, and in connection with the reforestration 
of the country would immensely improve conditions 
in certain localities, besides exerting an influence in 
climatic relations of far reaching importance. 
APPRECIATION OF A suggestive paragraph in a 
PARKS park report is that concerning 
the use made of the public parks where water facili- 
ties are provided for winter sports. It is suggestive 
from the fact that many parks and park authorities 
have not yet given due attention to this phase of 
park usefulness, and that therefore another field is 
open for their activities this coming season in prepara- 
tion for next winter. The increase in the attendance 
at the parks the past winter has been most marked ; 
so much so indeed that in some instances the authori- 
ties have installed toboggan slides to meet the de- 
mand and to provide a variety of exercise and amuse- 
ment. From all this it is apparent that our parks 
are not alone for the summer, and that in the winter 
season they may offer just as much attractiveness to 
a large part of the community, as, in a certain sense. 
PARK The financial affairs of certain of 
LEGISLATION park divisions of Chicago 
have promoted the activity of the legislators now in 
session at Springfield, 111 ., to secure legislation look- 
ing to the improvement of the situation, and to estab- 
lish a system of park government more in harmony 
with the magnitude and importance of the great city. 
The way park affairs have been too often conducted 
in the West and North Side parks of Chicago, has 
been more like exaggerated village government, with 
absolutely rotten political influences than what should 
have been, and the wonder is that the people have en- 
dured it so long. In the far famed Lincoln Park, at 
a recent meeting of the board, and on an examination 
of the precarious financial condition, the auditor re- 
marked that when the funds were exhausted, the 
park might be walled in and left to its fate. The state 
