PARK AND CEMETERY 
and Landscape Gardening. 
Vol, XI CHICAGO, AUGUST, 1901. No, 6 
Entered at the Postoffice at Chicag’o as Second Class Matter. 
CONTENTS. 
Editorial — National League of Improvement Associa- 
tions. — Annual Convention of the A. A. C. S. — 
Architects and the Garden. — Denver, Colo., and Gar- 
den Culture. — Park Deficits. — Funeral Reform. — ■ 
Park Reports 107, loS 
Report of Park Census, 1901 109 
Street Trees — IV no 
*Iniprovement Associations 112 
Neglected Trees and Shrubs 114 
Notes on Naturalistic Planting 116 
^Garden Plants — Their Geography — LXVlll 117 
Seasonable Suggestions 118 
*Forest Home Chapel, Oak Park. Ill 119 
Cemetery Superintendents’ Convention 120 
Prohibiting Burials Within City Limits 120 
Park Notes 121 
Cemetery Notes 122 
Reviews of Books, Report.s, etc 123 
*Illustrated. 
cNATIONAL The annual convention of the Na- 
IMTROV^ENT lional League of Improvement Asso- 
.c 4 SS 0 CIATI 0 NS. ciations will be held in Buffalo, N. Y., 
August 12-15, inclusive, and the program suggests a 
meeting profitable to all interested in the movement 
for improved home surroundings. A number of prom- 
inent persons associated with the work will be heard 
at this convention, and among other important matters 
to be discussed is that of a closer affinity among as- 
sociations aiming to promote civic beauty in all its 
branches, so that the work may be more effectively 
prosecuted, and the labor of educating the people to 
the advantages to be gained, be more advantageously 
divided and effectively conducted. Should a prac- 
tical scheme result from the discussion, it alone would 
justify such a convention, for at the present time many 
movements of widespread importance are hampered 
by the number of conflicting or inconveniently asso- 
ciated societies working for the same goal but by 
different routes. 
cANNUAL CON- The annual convention of the Associ- 
VENTION CEM- , • . r' ^ ^ a ^ 
EVERY SUPER- Cemetery Superintendents 
INTENDENTS. will take place at Pittsburg, Pa., Sep- 
tember 17-19 inclusive, and an attractive and instruct- 
ive programme has been arranged which appears on 
another page. Perhaps no association of its kind in 
the country has by its collective and individual efforts 
produced more definite results, or aided to a greater 
extent in the progressive development of the country 
in a direction of remarkably telling effect on the com- 
munity. And this might have been greatly augmented 
had it been possible to impress upon the officials of the 
greater number of smaller cemeteries scattered 
throughout the country, the desirability of directly as- 
sociating themselves with the association. The mu- 
tual interchange of knowledge and experience has far 
more than amply repaid the expenses and inconven- 
ience incident to attendance at its conventions, for they 
have been of such a practical character, and the op- 
portunities for their application so immediate that 
results and further experience of a paying character 
have always certainly followed every meeting. It is 
this particular feature of the cemetery superinten- 
dent’s work, that of early opportunity of testing others’ 
experience, that has had the effect of promoting so 
rapidly a development of the lawn-plan of cemetery 
practice, a system of care and maintenance which car- 
ries public favor wherever it is properly carried out. 
The subject is one that could be dilated on with profit, 
but at this writing the suggestions alDOve should suffice 
to impel every cemetery corporation, great or small, 
in the country to send a delegate to the forthcoming 
meeting. It is a paying investment beyond peradven- 
ture of doubt, and the funds appropriated and incon- 
veniences incurred are as nothing compared with the 
good that will result to the cemetery property repre- 
sented. 
cARCHlTECTS should be some rapproch- 
AND THE ment between the architect and the 
GARDENER designer of the outdoor setting of the 
house has been a foregone conclusion, albeit up to re- 
cent days not clearly recognized. Now that the ques- 
tion of the improvement of home surroundings has 
become a pertinent and inspiring one, the relations 
that should exist between the architect and the gar- 
dener are becoming better defined, and it stands out 
quite clearly to the average intelligence that a certain 
harmony should certainly exist between the house and 
its settings or grounds. To perfect this harmony it 
would appear that both the architect and landscape 
gardener should be versed in such general principles 
as are common to the two branches of art involved, 
and as the majority of residences stand on limited 
areas of ground, the architect in the interests of the 
homes he provides should be able to dictate the lead- 
ing features of the garden arrangements most suit- 
able for his design. The necessity for this addition 
to the architect’s education is making itself felt, espe- 
cially in connection with the ordinary and average 
class of detached or semi-detached residences, while in 
more pretentious designs the magnitude and general 
diversity of requirements will call for the harmonious 
co-operation of both the architect and landscape gar- 
dener. 
