PARK AND CEMETERY 
and Landscape Gardening. 
Vol, XI CHICAGO, JUNE, 1901. No. 4 
Entered at the Postoffice at Chicaffo as Second Class Matter. 
CONTENTS. 
Editorial— American Park and Outdoor Art Association- 
Street Trees — National League of Improvement Asso- 
ciations— Funeral Reform — An Interesting Legal De- 
cision — Cemetery Monuments 63. 64 
*Street Trees, II ^5 
*Eleagnus Augustifolia 66 
Forestry in New Jersey 66 
*Winter Effects in a Cemetery 67 
*Vandal Bridge, Prospect Park, Brooklyn 68 
Water Gardens 68 
The Elm Leaf Beetle 68 
*The Logan Monument, Washington, D. C 6g 
Proposed National Park in New Mexico 69 
*Improvement Associations 70 
*Mortuary Chapel, Columbus, 0 73 
The Landscape Beautiful 74 
^Cemetery Embellishment 75 
Correspondence 75 
Seasonable Suggestions 76 
*Garden Plants — Their Geography, LXVI 77 
Keeping Weeds from the Lawn 78 
Park Notes 78. 79 
Cemetery Notes 80 
Catholic Cemeteries in America 8; 
Reviews of Books, Reports, etc 82 
(AMERICAN PARK The importance of the annual 
AND OUTDOOR ART convention of the American 
(ASSOCIATION. Outdoor Art Asso- 
ciation suggests again calling attention to the date 
and place of meeting. It will convene in Milwaukee, 
Wis., on the morning of June 26 and will occupy 
three days in the fulfillment of its purpose. The as- 
sociation, comparatively young as it is, this being its 
fifth annual meeting, has exercised a force in the 
development of the idea of the necessity of outdoor 
art in our civilization, of incalculable value. The 
subjects it has taken up and made public have been 
such as are fundamental in connection with the im- 
provement of our surroundings and landscape art 
generally, and they have aroused a sentiment highly 
encouraging to the early consummation of the desired 
reforms. The association of Women’s Clubs with the 
organization, which is effected through its auxilliary, 
promises a still broader field of work, a field in which 
special details can be carried out, based on the prin- 
ciples enunciated so thoroughly in the work of the 
association. The meeting of this convention of men 
and women of high culture in their respective do- 
mains, will unciuestionably stir up park and city art 
questions in Milwaukee, and its effect will be an en- 
during sentiment in favor of art out-of-doors as a 
necessity in the welfare of humanity. 
^ In connection with the encourage- 
STREET TREES. , , , 
ments of outdoor improvements it 
is well to suggest the importance of properly consider- 
ing every project, great or small, so that the effort 
may be well directed and no energy needlessly ex- 
pended. Especially is it necessary to carefully con- 
sider the question of street trees, and experienced 
horticulturists should be consulted on the selection of 
varieties, their appropriateness and the particular care 
needed in their culture. Much of the street tree plant- 
ing already done, will have to be repeated by reason 
of neglect of these particulars. It is for this reason 
that the movement is spreading, looking to the appoint- 
ment of tree wardens or city foresters in places of 
anv size. In Massachusetts and New Hampshire, 
state laws have been passed, covering the election of 
tree wardens, whose duties compass the care of all 
public trees and whose decision and advice is practi- 
cally law. The importance of the selection and care 
of street trees is thus emphasized and it would be well 
were such l?ws enacted throughout the country. 
NATIONAL LEAGUE The annual convention of the 
OF IMPROVEMENT National League of Improve- 
ASSOCIATIONS. ment Associations will be held 
in Buffalo, August 12-15 next, and a program is 
])romised which will make every minute valuable to 
those in attendance. Among the promient speakers 
and lecturers to participate in the proceedings are : 
Prof. Charles Zueblin, University of Chicago, who 
will deliver an illustrated lecture; W. H. Moulton, 
Secretary of Industrial Committee, Cleveland Cham- 
ber of Commerce, on “The Work of the Cleveland 
Home Gardening Association” ; Charles M. Loring, 
ex-president American Park and Out-Door Art As- 
sociation, on “The Influence of Neighborhood Im- 
provement Associations in the Establishment of 
Cities”; Miss Mira Loyd Dock, of Harrisburg, Pa., 
and others well known in progressive improvement 
in out-door conditions. The field of operations on 
which an improvement association can exercise a 
beneficial influence is very broad, so that the program 
for this convention may be expected to be replete with 
