PARK AND CEMETERY 
and Landscape Gardening. 
Vol, XI CHICAGO, SEPTEMBER, 1901. No, 7 
Entered at the Postoffice at Chicago as Second Class Matter. 
CONTENTS. 
Editorial- -Cemetery Superintendents’ Convention — The 
American League for Civic Improvement — Exhibit of 
Civic Improvement Work at St. Louis — The National 
Capita! — Woman’s Work in Civic Beauty — A New 
Field for Philanthropy — The New Bureau of For- 
estry 124, 125 
*The Parks of Hartford, Conn 126 
The Convention of Improvement Associations 127 
^Office Building, Woodward Lawn Cemetery, Detroit, 
Mich 131 
*Improvement Associations 132 
'•‘Losey Memorial, La Crosse, Wis 134 
^Garden Plants — Their Geography, LXIX 135 
Horticultural Notes 136 
Park Notes 137 
Cemetery Notes 138 
Reviews of Books, Reports, etc 139 
*Illustrated. 
CEMETERY The fifteenth annual 
SUPERINTENDENTS convention of the Associa- 
CONVENTIOSK.. r A r' 
tion of American Ceme- 
tery Superintendents will be held at the Hotel Schen- 
ley, Pittsburg, Pa., September 17, 18, 19. The pro- 
gramme given in detail in our last issue gives promise 
of an interesting occasion. The excellent results that 
have been accomplished through the efforts of this or- 
ganization commend it to the favorable consideration 
of all who are interested in the improvement of ceme- 
teries. 
o 4 MERICAcNi LEAGUE The recent convention of 
FOR CIVIC American League for 
IMPROVEMENT. n- ■ j . 
Civic Improvement, organ- 
ized last year under the title of the National League 
of Improvement Associations, at Buffalo, in many re- 
spects was a significant gathering. While the attend- 
ance was a great disappointment to those upon whom 
the duty fell of preparing for the occasion, the charac- 
ter of the papers and discussions, and the enthusiasm 
of those present, made the convention an undoubted 
success, and prepared the way for an aggressive cam- 
paign in the cause of civic improvement. This term 
is more comprehensive than the former title of the 
association implies and affords a larger field of work 
to which the many representative workers among its 
members will henceforth address themselves. A fea- 
ture which attracted considerable attention was ex- 
pressed in the report of the secretary in connection 
with the collection of funds with which to promote the 
welfare of the association, and should serve as an ex- 
ample among the local societies. It was the successful 
appeal to business men for subscriptions to the cause, 
and from this source a large proportion of the funds 
expended were obtained. This is a pointed suggestion 
to all improvement associations, and it is not only in 
the way of funds that representative men should be 
induced to help, but their names as promoters of im- 
provement ideas in any community, great or small, im- 
part confidence and invite practical consideration. 
The scope of the work comprised in civic improvement 
was also well expressed in the convention, and while 
from certain standpoints it appeared overwhelming in 
its diversity and extent, the intelligence present and af- 
terwards called to the helm of the undertaking left no 
doubt that in whatever branch of work improvement 
was demanded there would be no difficulty in carrying 
it on when all was ready for the effort. The first year 
of the existence of the League taxed the energies and 
experience of its promoters, but it is gratifying to re- 
cord that the Buffalo convention proved that the work 
had not been in vain, and that a future of great works 
has been revealed for the association. 
EXHFBIT OF IMPROVE- A most important reso- 
MENT WORK lution was adopted at 
AT ST. LOUIS. Buffalo Convention 
of the American League for Civic Improvement,, 
which will be found in full in another column, looking 
to an exhibit at the forthcoming St. Louis exposition- 
of the material, plans and methods adopted in the im- 
provement of towns and cities, and in fact all the com- 
ponents of improvement work generally. In the re- 
marks by Mr. Albert Kelsey, president of the Archi- 
tectural League of America, who introduced the reso- 
lution, he stated that at three foreign expositions a de- 
partment had been made for work of this character,, 
and had had an excellent effect and attracted much at- 
tention. It does not require much consideration to 
conclude that such an exhibit, while improvement work 
is a leading feature of our national economics, would 
be very timely, and that it could be made of surprising 
interest goes without saying. It is to be hoped and 
expected that the managers of the St. Louis exposition 
will decide to permit such a department and in ample 
time to allow of a comprehensive exhibit, practical and 
educational. Properly arranged and with instructive 
literature to explain it in detail, it should exert a pow- 
erful influence in converting the people to that civic 
pride which will prompt incessant activity along pro- 
gressive lines in our city life and living. 
