PARK AND CEMETERY 
and Landscape Gardening. 
Vol, XII CHICAGO, APRIL, 1902, No. 2 
Entered at the Postoffice at Chicago as Second Class Matter. 
CONTENTS. 
Editorial — Convention of the A. P. and O. A. A. — Ar- 
bor Daj' — Proposed National Exposition — Public 
Schools and Outdoor Improvements — Model City at 
St. Louis 258, 259 
*Parks of Los Angeles, Cal 2G0 
*Wirth’s Merry-Go-Round 261 
*The Laurel Glen Mauso’ aim 262 
*The Ice Storm at Philadelphia 262 
*The Acanthus in Monumental Art 263 
Native Spring Flowering Bulbs 264 
*Cemetery Chapel, Pittsfield, Mass 265 
*Harleigh Cemetery, Camden, N. J 266 
*Two Soldiers’ Monuments 267 
*Poppies in Decorative Art 268 
*Planting Plan for Cemetery Plot 268 
*Improvement Associations 269 
*Garden Plants — Their Geography 271 
Seasonable Suggestions 272 
Park Notes 273 
Cemetery Notes 274 
Reviews of Books, Reports, etc 275 
*Illustrated. 
C0.NVENT10N The preliminary announcement for the 
OF THE A. P. sixth annual meeting' of the American 
&0.cA.cA. Qi^tcloor Art Association, 
which is to be held in Boston, August 5-7, is of itself 
ample assurance of the progress the association is -mak- 
ing in its great work. The papers and addresses al- 
ready promised include such names as Dr. Chas. W . 
Eliot, president Harvard University ; Dr. Alliert Shaw, 
Editor Rez'iczu of Reviezes; Albert Kelsey, president 
Architectural League of America, and many others of 
high reputaton and authority in public improvement 
work, and the sessions will include special meetings of 
the Women’s Auxiliary and Park Commissioners. It 
is planned that the Boston convention shall be of wide 
importance at which representatives of allied associa- 
tions will participate, and the recreative features of 
such occurrences rvill be amply provided for without 
detracting from the important deliberations of the reg- 
ular sessions of the convention. We indulge the hope 
that the convention wdll find a means of co-ordinating 
the work of other kindred associations with its own, 
so as to create a wide and thoroughly effective force or 
set of forces. The various organizations now at work 
lor outdoor improvement in one direction or the other, 
lead to a certain confusion in the ordinary public intel- 
ligence, which cannot readily realize that success can be 
attained under such conditions. That in union there 
is strength is a much more comprehensible proposition, 
and would undoubtedly influence a more positive pub- 
lic appreciation. 
cARBOR The annual recurrence of Arbor Day is 
at once a beneficial and instructive oc- 
casion. Intended to promote the plant- 
ing and distribution of trees and shrubs, and so in a 
measure to make up for the woeful destruction prac- 
ticed formerly, it really found the majority of people 
in a fairly complete state of ignorance concerning the 
subject, and the zeal which rapidly developed was to a 
considerable degree expended without rule or reason. 
Trees and shrubs were planted indiscriminately and 
anywhere, with the result that the excellent work which 
might have been accomplished proved largely failure. 
Happily the idea took strong hold of the children of the 
public schools, and the exercises of the day have been 
developed on lines of both usefulness and instruction. 
But there is still room for great improvement, both in 
the schools and by other large bodies who observe the 
day. Better methods, more carefully selected trees, and 
more care in planting, are necessary considerations. 
There must b'e a definite object in view -to secure the 
best results, rvhether it be setting out a grove, improv- 
ing a school yard, or planting a memorial tree, and the 
best knowledge and advice should he brought to bear 
in the work. Park and cemetery officials can do much 
toward encouraging and instructing the school chil- 
dren in the beautifying of public schools and grounds, 
and under such supervision the work is likely to be 
well and permanently done. In connnection with tree 
planting the Department of Agriculture issued an in- 
teresting bulletin last year on tree planting on rural 
school grounds, written by L. Hall, which should 
be read by every one interested in this movement. 
PROPOSED The paper recently read before the 
NATIONAL Massachusetts Horticultural Societv, 
EXPOSITION. ^ ^ - 
at Boston, on ihe influence of xAmer- 
ican Expositions on the Out-Door Arts,” by Mr. War- 
ren H. iManning, contains a suggestion for a National 
Exposition at MAshington worthy of attention. He 
says : “At Washington there is and always will be the 
best representation of the country’s resotirces arranged 
in the most instructive manner. It is likely that there 
will continue to be local expositions in which local re- 
sources will be effectively displayed. If they could be 
in a sense outposts of a great permanent exposition at 
Washington, which could establish traveling exhibits 
for their benefit, they would be of far more permanent 
value than the theatrical outbursts of local pride repre- 
sented by the quarter-century exposition period that is 
passing by.” Mr. Manning reviews the question of 
World’s Eairs from a hard, common sense standpoint, 
based upon the experience of the past, and his deduc- 
tions are not favorable to local exhibitions in a general 
sense. He does, however, give them credit for the na- 
