PARK AND CEMETERY 
and Landscape Gardening. 
Vol, XII CHICAGO, JUNE, 1902, No, 4 
Entered at the Postoffice at Chicago as Second Class Matter. 
CONTENTS. 
Editorial — Poster Advertising — Another Plea for Our 
Native Shrubs — Iowa’s New River Front Law — Agen- 
cies Promoting Improvement — New York Tree Plant- 
ing Rules 295, 296 
*Rochambeau Monument, Washington, D. C 297 
*Tree-Lined Avenues 298 
Preserve Our Native Plants 299 
Among Our American Trees 300 
*Mt. Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Mass 301 
*Lehmann Memorial Temple, Chicago 302 
*Salisburia Adiantifolia 303 
*Memorial Art in the Modern Cemetery 304 
*Improvement Associations 306 
^Improvements at Niagara Falls 308 
*Garden Plants — Their Geography — LXXVIll 309 
An Error in Lawn Planting 309 
Seasonable Suggestions 310 
*Park Notes 311, 312 
Cemetery Notes 313 
Reviews of Books, Reports, etc 314 
POSTER The Bufifalo ordinance limiting the 
ADVERTISING. of poster advertisements has 
been declared valid by the New York Supreme Court, 
and following this a bill has been introduced into the 
assembly imposing' a stamp tax of one cent on every 
two square feet of board except where the billboard 
advertisement is displayed where the business is car- 
ried on. The bill has been criticised for its conserva- 
tism and compared with foreign taxes on such forms 
of public advertising, the tax is small. In some in- 
stances abroad the tax is so arranged that it becom^'^ 
actually prohibitory of the use of large billboards. 
Every move that will tend to discountenance the 
degradation of our cities and landscapes by billboard 
advertising is worthy of commendation and support, 
but at the same time there should be no half-way 
measures ; and as the New York Ezening Post sug- 
gets, offenders against the eye and other senses should 
be as amenable to restriction as those offending the ear 
and nose. 
PLEA FOR OUR A more extended use of our na- 
NATIVE SHRUBS. |.jyg shrubs has been constantly 
urged in these columns, not alone for their particular 
beauty and appropriateness, their great variety, their 
adaptability to local conditions and comparative in- 
expensiveness, where drawn from local sources, but 
also for their abundance whereby a scheme of plant- 
ing can usually be carried out having all the necessary 
details of completeness under the conditions demanded 
in landscape art. Another reason for their use is made 
by Mr. F. H. Nutter, of Minneapolis, given in a re- 
cent issue of the Minnesota Horticulturist. He says : 
“There is another value that may be attached to our 
native trees and shrubs. * h; These imported 
trees and shrubs we value so highly are not native 
forms where they originate. They are perhaps sports 
which have been kept in preservation. So another 
value of our shrubs is as a foundation to build up a 
system of improved native shrubs. We know by ob- 
servation that many of these shrubs have some differ- 
ent specific beauty, different from some others of the 
same variety about it, and it seems to me that by care- 
ful selection many native shrubs may be developed 
equal to foreign varieties.” This is an excellent sug- 
gestion which should yield bountiful results. 
IOWA'S NEW An important act was passed in 
RIVER FRONT LAW. ]\iarch last by the Iowa legisla- 
ture by which towns intersected by meandered 
streams may acquire rights over the waters and banks 
of such streams to improve them and park their banks 
within the corporate limits. This is certainly a move 
in the right direction, and such legislative action 
should be followed without delay by other states. The 
improvement of city fronts along river banks has 
been a matter of curious neglect, for no other condition 
of urban existence affords finer opportunities for city 
decoration and embellishment than its river frontage, 
and eloquent proof of the correctness of the assertion 
may be seen in the Charles River improvement in Bos- 
ton and the magnificent Thames embankment of Lon- 
don, and other places. As a rule the river frontage is 
a disgrace to the community, unsanitary and unsafe, 
and its higher possibilities for the benefit of the people 
have been overlooked entirely for the interests of com- 
merce only, whereas, as a rule, both interests could 
have been better subserved by improvement. The 
Iowa law provides for a commission to be appointed 
by the Governor upon petition of electors of any city, 
which shall be vested in fee simple with the title of the 
bed of the meandered stream in trust for the public, 
and may redeem lands within the meander lines, build 
