PARK AND CEMETERY 
and Landscape Gardening. 
Vol, XI CHICAGO, NOVEMBER, 1901. No, 9 
Entered at the Postoffice at Chicago as Second Class Matter. 
CONTENTS. 
Editorial — Scarcity of Good Gardeners — The American 
League for Civic Improvement — Mem’orial Trees — 
Proposed Joint Meeting — Sunday Funerals — Modern 
City Making at the St. Louis Exposition 158. 159 
*Design for Irving Park, Yonkers, N. Y 160 
*Decorative Planting Contests in Chicago t6o 
*Tree Moving — 1 162 
The Sparrow 165 
*How an Old Cemetery Was Improved 166 
Tree Wardens versus Raih^y Interests 167 
*Private Station at a Cemetery 167 
*Improvement Associations 168 
*Berheris Repens 170 
*Garden Plants — Their Geography, LXXI 171 
Beautiful Berries of Autumn 17^ 
Park Notes I 73 
Cemetery Notes I74 
Reviews of Books, Reports, etc i 75 
*Illustrated. 
SCARCITY OF 
GOOD 
GARDENERS. 
The Bulletin of the New England 
Park Superintendents’ Association 
refers to reports in the daily press 
which recorded that out of fifty-one gardeners certi- 
fied as competent by the Massachusetts Civil Service 
Commission, in a practical trial in the Boston Parks 
at pruning trees and potting plants, only one was 
found to be a competent gardener. This statement 
by the public press the bulletin corrects, and gives the 
facts as follows ; The fifty-one gardeners were not 
examined by the commission, but were only listed on 
their own representation in their applications, which 
were vouched for by two persons. Mr. J. A. Petti- 
grew says that “civil service examinations do not bring 
out all there is in a candidate, yet they bring a fraud 
up short.” Good gardeners are scarce. 
THE c4MERICAN The remarkably successful con- 
LEAGUE FOR CIVIC vention of the National League 
IMPROVEMENT. Improvement Associations at 
Buffalo in August, which culminated in the change of 
name and a renewed enthusiasm for a more extended 
and forceful campaign in the interests of civic improve- 
ment, is being emphasized by a far-reaching activity. 
Every department of work is being systematically or- 
ganized, lecture courses are arranged, public speakers 
listed, and a plan of educational effort inaugurated 
which cannot fail to invite the co-operation of all in- 
telligently interested in the improvement of the en- 
vironment of community life, and the movement is at- 
tracting wide attention throughout the country, en- 
couraged by the distribution of well digested printed 
matter describing the aims and possible results of the 
issue. A recent circular received from the correspond- 
ing secretary, Mr. E. G. Routzahn, Dayton, O., gives 
details of the proposed lecture lists and requests in- 
formation regarding material available for illustrating, 
such as the following: Water supply and sewerage; 
roads ; famous parks at home and abroad, public util- 
ities, etc. ; home and school grounds ; landscape and 
municipal architecture; school buildings, home and 
abroad ; factories and workshops, etc. Reports and 
information, drawings and blue prints, in connection 
with the foregoing and kindred topics, as well as 
such lantern slides as it is possible to secure, will be 
highly appreciated. Co-operation in the work of the 
league will be a paying investment and is earnestly 
presented for the consideration of the business men 
of any community. 
There have been a number of sug- 
gestions from various parts of the 
country in connection with the 
planting of memorial trees in honor of our late Presi- 
dent, Wm. McKinley. The character of the man in 
many phases might be suggestively typified by me- 
morial trees, and such trees planted in public places, 
and especially about the public schools, afford texts 
of infinite power and expressiveness. Properly and 
permanently labeled, they become not only sources of 
instruction to both young and old, in a moral sense, 
establishing and building up personal character, but 
also form intensely interesting object lessons, and 
serve to maintain in the public eye a historical connec- 
tion with the prominent incidents associated with the 
person memorialized. Next Arbor Day ought to see 
numbers of trees dedicated to William McKinley, 
planted with the utmost care as to soil and site, that 
in vigor and position it will remain a life-long orna- 
ment and blessing. 
In connection with the next conven- 
tion of the American Park and Out- 
door Art Association, to be held in 
Boston in 1902, steps were taken at the last meeting 
to promote a joint meeting of the various improvement 
associations at that time. This important question 
was also further favorably considered at the Buffalo 
convention of the American League for Civic Im- 
provement. The value of a joint conference of the 
‘PROPOSED 
JOINT 
8MEETING. 
MEMORIAL 
TREES 
