PARK AND CEMETERY 
and Landscape Gardening. 
Vol, XI CHICAGO, APRIL, 1901, No. 2 
CONTENTS. 
Editorial — Washington, The City Beautiful. .The Force 
of Example — Perpetual Care — A Broad Field for 
Beneficence — Effect of Politics on Chicago Parks — 
The Country Schoolhouse — A Cemetery Problem.. 21, 22 
*The Improvement of School Grounds 23 
Photographic Surveying Methods in the Service of the 
Landscape Gardener 24 
IMyssas, or Sour Gums 26 
♦Polygonum Cuspidatum (P. Siebold;. 27 
♦Summer Flowering Bulbs in the Park — Montbretias and 
Oxalis 27 
♦Irises in a Cemetery 28 
♦Entrance to Forest Lawn Cemetery, Buffalo, N. Y 29 
♦Improvement Associations 30 
The Town Beautiful 32 
Seasonable Suggestions 34 
♦Garden Plants — Their Geography, LXIV 35 
Park Notes 36 
Some Interesting Park Statistics 37 
Cemetery Notes 38 
Conducting Modern Funerals 39 
♦Box to Hold Earth from Grave 39 
Reviews of Books, Reports, Etc 40 
♦Illustrated. 
WASHINGTON. A matter of more than ordinary 
THE CITY importance is now well organized 
BEAUTIFUL beautify, as it is expressed, the 
city of Washington. Washington has already been 
recognized as a beautiful city, but its condition did 
not nearly approach what its importance as the seat 
of this great government demanded. However, cer- 
tain features of municipal improvement have char- 
acterized its progress, which may now be developed 
to their limit under the broad promises, which the 
reputation of the experts called in to design and 
superintend, hold out. In the appointment of such 
men on the working commitee as Daniel H. Burn- 
ham and Frederick Law Olmsted, Senator McMillan, 
who is the acting spirit of the Senate committee, has 
adopted a wise course, and one that may be depended 
upon to secure results which will be a satisfaction to 
the country at large. 
THE FORCE OF The movement to create a beautiful 
EXAMPLE q£ Washington, in itself of im- 
mense importance considering the position that city 
holds in the United States, will at this time exert a 
far-reaching influence in other sections of the coun- 
try. In a number of cities organizations in various 
lines of artistic and educational work have been study- 
ing prospects and conditions in order to develop a 
practicable scheme of improvement, which would en- 
gender the requisite enthusiasm among those in posi- 
tion to push such a cause to completion. The work, 
therefore, now inaugurated in Washington should 
undoubtedly stimulate representative workers in this 
field in such cities to go ahead and do likewise. The 
force of example is a powerful factor in many lines 
of human effort, and it is especially noticeable in the 
general question of outdoor improvement. The im- 
provement of parks and cemeteries in the larger 
towns lends a direct though unseen force in the same 
line of work in the near-by towns and villages, while 
the well-kept and happily designed home grounds 
exert an influence like the “little leaven” that finally 
leavens the whole. The devotees of the movement 
for outdoor improvement may well congratulate 
themselves on the project to improve our Capital 
city. 
effect of politics 
ON CHICAGO PARKS 
The Chicago press has become 
thoroughly in earnest in its 
endeavor to reform the man- 
agement of Lincoln Park and the West Side park 
system of Chicago, which under the political control 
which has been exercised for the past decade, mor^ 
or less, have become a disgrace to the municipality. 
As a matter of fact Lincoln Park is a national object 
lesson in park ethics, not on account of its beauty 
and the good effect it has in relation to the public, 
but for its positive exemplification of the absolutely 
destructive influences which baneful political methods 
exert on pqblic parks. The people of Chicago are 
thoroughly aroused to the situation, and bills have 
been introduced into the legislature designed to rem- 
edy both the abuses and effects of the past pernicious 
conditions. 
THE COUNTRY It is a fact, but not one that min- 
SCHOOLHOUSE isters to our national pride, that 
the country schoolhouse seldom presents a satisfac- 
tory appearance after the first coat of paint wears 
off. The halo of reverence with which we invest it 
in our memories disappears when actually seen, after 
the lapse of time, and it is a pity too, because the 
neglect which has fallen to its lot has been a poor 
method of maintaining the influence which it should 
always exert on the young. In these days of grow- 
ing concern regarding the external surroundings of 
our public places, it becomes an excellent plan to 
begin reform in the country with the schoolhouse, 
and to this end it should be inculcated into every 
school teacher the educational value of well-arranged 
natural surroundings about his or her schoolhouse. 
In the country places it is so easy to obtain plants 
and shrubs, the horticulturists are now rising to the 
occasion and may be depended upon to help, and, 
even the nurserymen are beginning to show an open 
hand in donating to the cause of the outdoor im- 
provement of the schoolhouse. 
