PARK AND CEMETERY 
and Landscape Gardening. 
Vol. XII CHICAGO, MAY, 1902, No, 3 
Entered at the Postoffice at Chicag-o as Second Class Matter. 
CONTENTS. 
Editorial — American Outdoor Art at Turin — J. Sterling 
Morton — Preservation of Our Native Plants — Im- 
provement Work at Chautatiqua — The Need of a Tree 
Warden — Improvement in Country Cemeteries. . .276, 277 
*Three Types of the Elm 278 
Conifers in Golden Gate Park 278 
A Plea for Our Native Flowers 279 
A Few June Flowering Bulbs 280 
*The Philadelphia Soldiers’ Monument 281 
*Progress in Railway Planting 282 
*A Bed of Succulents in Fairmount Park 283 
*Crown Hill Cemetery Entrance, Indianapolis 284 
*The Simmons Mausoleum, Troy, N. Y 283 
*Easton Cemetery Buildings, Easton, Pa 286 
Improvement Associations ^87 
*Plan for Remodeling a Cemetery 289 
^Garden Plants — Their Geography — LXXVll 290 
Seasonable Suggestions 291 
Park Notes 292 
Cemetery Notes 293 
Reviews of Books, Reports, &c 294 
*Illustrated. 
AMERICAN OUTDOOR The American Park and. 
o4RT c/lT TURIN. (Jutdoor Art Association is 
participating in the International Exposition of 
Modern Decorative Art now being held in Turin, 
Italy, and it is safe to say that the sixty-four 
photographs which comprise the exhibit of the 
association will attract no little attention. The 
selection covers a broad field of American out- 
door art and is divided into five classes : Pub- 
lic buildings, public parks, old homes and gardens, 
modern mansions and gardens, and village and city 
homes. Under these subdivisions some of the finest 
examples of American landscape art, as represented 
by parks and public and private grounds, have been 
secured, as well as views of public buildings, repre- 
sentative homes and their surroundings. The exposi- 
tion authorities at Turin have extended every courtesy 
to the association and with the energetic co-operation 
of the American consul, Sig. Pietro Cuneo, much good 
of an educational nature should result. It would be 
gratifying to American pride to find the Old World 
taking up this question of outdoor art and pursuing 
it on the practical lines in course of development in 
this country. It should also be a possible thing, and as 
a result of this exhibition, to induce the formation of 
like associations in Europe, organized so as to co-op- 
erate with our American society, and so create another 
form of world power with infinite promise of good for 
humanity. The catalogue of this exhibit is printed in 
three parallel columns in Italian, French and English, 
J.- STERLING MORTON. 
Few deaths have caused 
more sincere universal regret 
than that of J. Sterling Alorton, former Secretary of 
Agriculture, which occurred at Lake Forest, Ilk, on 
April 27, He had been in prominent official position 
for nearly fifty years, although a farmer all his life, 
and he had been a leader in the upbuilding of every 
line of agriculture. Lovers of art out of doors owe 
much to Mr. Morton. It was his love for trees and 
plant life that led him to advocate, and with such suc- 
cess, the official decree of “Arbor Day," which orig- 
inating in Nebraska, bis borne State, is now an annual 
function in all but a few States. Phis would suggest 
that a noble tree be planted as a fitting memorial for 
the man, and the earth from which it might draw sus- 
tenance should be contributed by every State honoring 
itself by Arbor Day exercises. Mr. Morton was born 
in Adams, Jefferson County, N. Y., April 22, 1832, 
and emigrated to the territory of Nebraska in 1854. 
He was a man of broad education, high mental attain- 
ments and steadfast character, and in a quiet but force- 
ful manner exercised an influence of far-reaching good 
in whatever his name has been associated with. Plant 
trees was his motto, and he has left it to his fellow- 
citizens as a memorial suggestion. His final obse- 
quies were held at Nebraska City, his home, and he 
was laid to rest in Wyuka Cemetery, beside his wife 
and son. 
‘PRESERVATION OF OUR One of the practical ef- 
cHATIVE PLANTS. forts of the Nev^ York 
Botanical Garden is the dissemination of information 
concerning our native plants with the view or encour- 
aging an active and enlightened sentiment in favor of 
the better protection and preservation of such species 
as may be threatened w’^-h extermination. One of the 
methods to this end is the bestowal of prizes, derived 
from the income of a fund donated by the IMisses 
Caroline ai;d Olivia Phelps, for the best essays on the 
subject, which are printed in the Journal and reprinted 
for distril)ution. The essay receiving the first prize 
is by Dr. F. PC Knowlton, U. S. National IMuseum, 
Washington, on “Suggestions for the Preservation of 
Our Native Plants,” which is a valuable and sugges- 
tive paper. As the intelligent plant lover must recog- 
nize, the preservation of plants having no definite 
mone>- value must be accomplished largely by an ap- 
peal to sentiment, and this involves an educational 
process, to which all interested might wisely direct 
their attention. Dr. Knowlton also suggests the con- 
stant use of the press, in such a way as that the matter 
offered readers may have a constantly recurring in- 
terest. Another agency might be a national societv 
