PARK AND CEMETERY 
and Landscape Gardening. 
Vol. XI CHICAGO. MAY, 1901. No. 3 
Entered at the Postoffice at ChicaR’o as Second Class Matter. 
CONTENTS. 
Editorial— A Worthy Work — Gardening Prizes by the 
Chicago Tribune — Memorial Day — American Park 
and Outdoor Art Association — An Important Na- 
tional Trust 41, 42 
*Street Trees 43 
Japan Maples on Our Western Prairies 44 
*A venue of Pin Oaks, Fairmount Park 44 
A Plea for More Water Gardens 45 
Some of the Newer Water Lilies 46 
*Planting for Immediate Effect 47 
Landscape Architects and Gardeners 47 
*De Bever Memorial Chapel, Nazareth, Mich 49 
^Improvement Associations SO 
Seasonable Suggestions S3 
^Garden Plants — Their Geography, LXV 54 
*The Shadow of the Cross 55 
How to Make Concrete 55 
Park Notes 56 
Preliminary Programme, A. P. & O. A. A 57 
*A German Soldier’s Monument 57 
Cemetery Notes 58, 59 
Right of Burial in Ancestral Lot 60 
Extracts from Cemetery Reports 60 
*Monument to the Maine 61 
Reviews of Books, Reports, etc 62 
■^Illustrated. 
GARDENING PRIZES In order to cultivate 
BY THE individual ef¥ort in 
CHICAGO ^‘TRIBUNE." . . 
making picturesque 
yards and -w'indows and in general in out- 
door beautifying, the Chicago Tribune has of- 
fered a series of prizes for the best gardens and -win- 
dow boxes, in the three main sections of Chicago, 
and has been re-enforcing and stimulating endeavor 
in this direction by publishing, almost daily for a time, 
suggestive hints for the amateur gardener, and 
broader articles pertaining to shrubs and flowers for 
the general reader. This enterprise on the part of 
so prominent a daily and the valuable and suggestive 
text supplied to afford information to all classes has 
been highly commended, and has created an im- 
pression that will undoubtedly serve to crystallize 
sentiment and render permanent the desire to im- 
prove the home surroundings of numbers of Chicago 
citizens. Opportunities to beautify our towns and 
cities have been and are practically unbounded, but 
the spirit to undertake the work has been lacking 
in the average citizen, and this, in consequence, has 
been the underlying reason why our city governments 
have been so delinquent in maintaining municipal prop- 
erties in presentalde condition, so far as outdoor ap- 
pearances are concerned. Once excite the commu- 
nity to a realization of what proposed improvement 
means, and this is the work of the public press, and 
officialdom is compelled to follow the lead. If more 
of the great dailies would take up the work of out- 
door art and improvement, they would not only im- 
measurably benefit their respective communities, but 
would lead in a matter of general improvement, the 
refining' nature of which is incalculable. 
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A WORTHY In the rapidly increasing work 
WORK. q£ educating the people to the 
value of outdoor improvement, a work that 
a growing sentiment throughout the country is 
making a present day duty, every one possessing 
knowledge of trees and plants and the elements of 
landscape arrangements should lend a hand. It will 
for a long time be in the nature of missionary effort, 
but the result will be a constantly increasing demand 
for such efforts, which means an ever broadening 
field for the landscape gardener. In this connec- 
tion we note that Mr. Sid. J. Hare, the superintend- 
ent of Forest Hill Cemetery, Kansas City, Mo., has 
been lecturing to the students of the Manual Train- 
ing High School, setting forth his views on street, 
boulevard and park construction. Cemetery and 
park superintendents in ever}^ community could well 
follow this example and impart some of their knowl- 
edge to the growing citizen, thereby securing a re- 
ceptive and retentive intelligence for future develop- 
ment; yet it need not be confined to the young peo- 
ple, there is sufficient interest in the subject to at- 
tract all classes. 
MEMORIAL With, generally speaking, a 
season highly favorable to na- 
ture’s best efforts in field and forest, and con- 
sequently satisfactory to the cemetery superintend- 
ent, a beautiful Memorial Day may be anticipated for 
the exercise of the functions provided for that day 
of national mourning. For many years past, how- 
ever, the spirit of the day has been sadly marred by 
the intrusion of coarser pleasures, which to a large 
extent negatived its sacred snggestiveness, and it is 
gratifying to observe that public sentiment is rapidly 
reverting to a due and proper appreciation of what 
the day is intended to memorialize, and is suppress- 
ing features of public amusement which had well- 
