PARK AND CEMETERY 
and Landscape Gardening. 
Vol. XI CHICAGO, DECEMBER, 1901. No. 10 
Entered at the Postoffice at Chicag’o as Second Class Matter. 
CONTENTS. 
Editorial — Conference of Boston Twentieth Century Club 
— The Billboard Crusade — Love of Nature — Thomas 
Meehan I77 
*lnfluence of Improvement Associations 178 
*Tree Moving — II I79 
Winter Care of Trees 182 
A Crocodile Cemetery 182 
*Ruskin Cross, Coniston, England 183 
* Yuccas 184 
*Plan for Hospital Grounds 185 
Use and Abuse of Variegated Shrubs 186 
*Improvement Associations 187 
*Garden Plants: Their Geography — LXXII 189 
*Park Notes 190 
*Cemetery Notes 192 
Reviews of Books, Reports, Etc 194 
*Illustrated. 
CONFERENCE OF A conference was held 
‘=BOSTO€Ni TWENTIETH by the Twentieth Cen- 
CENTURY CLUB. tury Club of Boston on 
the evening of November 20 last on the work of the 
American Park and Outdoor A.rt Association, which 
was well attended and was of marked interest. Among 
the speakers were President Eliot, of Harvard Univer- 
sity, Arthur A. Shurtleff, Harlan P. Kelsey, C. How- 
ard Walker, Prof. Langford Warren, Kate Gannett 
Wells, Edwin D. Mellen, A. T. Farley, and Warren 
H. Manning. The meeting will undoubtedly awaken 
a broad interest in the work of the association, which 
should result in a large and representative gathering 
at its annual convention which is to be held in Boston 
next year, and to which other organizations working 
in kindred lines are also invited. The speeches were 
on the broad lines of the general necessity of outdoor 
art as a recreative and educational agency, and Presi- 
dent Eliot laid particular stress on the loss felt by 
children in the city deprived of country life and train- 
ing. He claimed that the park movement is primarily 
a work of self preservation. It should be possible to 
hold such conferences at frequent intervals in all the 
leading centers, to the end that the movement may be- 
come a public question of prime importance. 
THE ‘BILLBOARD The movement against the 
CRUSADE. abuses of public advertising, 
more specifically understood as the billboard nuisance. 
is rapidly becoming of world-wide import. The cru- 
sade against so pernicious a commercial infraction of 
good taste, and we should say of common sense, has 
been quietly but persistently prosecuted in England by 
an organized society. In Paris, a prominent artist has 
taken steps to promote a movement having the same 
object in view, while elsewhere on the continent of 
Europe a strong public sentiment is taking practical 
form to do away with this common desecration of 
public beauty. In this country organized effort is se- 
curing good results in many localities ; these columns 
have frequently advised our readers of the progress 
maintained in Chicago and Quincy, Ilk, and in the 
East, while it is now to be recorded that Cincinnati 
through its board of public service is taking steps to 
abate the nuisance. The American Park and Outdoor 
Art Association is leaving “no stone unturned” that 
will aid in the cause of so necessary and advisable a re- 
form in outdoor conditions, and has recently ap- 
pealed to Senator Cullom to introduce a bill before 
Congress to prohibit such forms of public advertising 
on, in and about all government buildings, posses- 
sions and reservations. In the interests of public wel- 
fare there should be no question on the part of Con- 
gress to regulate such a matter, which if done with 
no unnecessary delay, will go far to aid one of the 
most beneficial movements in the cause of outdoor im- 
provement yet inaugurated. Every admirer of either 
civic or rural beauty should lend a helping hand. 
LOVE OF In a recent lecture of Prof. Charles 
cNiATURE. Zueblin, of the University of Chi- 
cago, he dwelt forcibly upon the necessity of culti- 
vating and preserving a love of nature, which is the 
motive force in the prosecution of outdoor improve- 
ment. In a measure it is intuitive in children, while as 
maturity advances it loses much of its vitality, and in 
the whirl of city life it is practically lost. In all the 
efforts so far attempted in the line of outdoor improve- 
ment, the greatest zeal has been displayed by the 
children in connection with the small share of the 
work allotted to them, and reports from such sources as 
have encouraged juvenile efforts in gardening and the 
minor requirements connected with the labors of im- 
provement associations, give unanimous consent to 
the aptitude and ability of children in this class of 
work, and the cheerful, friendly competition engend- 
ered in the desire to excel in the labor undertaken. 
