PARK AND CEMETERY 
and Landscape Gardening. 
Vol. XII CHICAGO, AUGUST, 1902, No, 6 
Entered at the Postoffice at Chicago as Second Class Matter. 
CONTENTS. 
Editorial — Convention of the A. P. and O. A. A. — 
St. Paul Convention of the A. L. C. I. — Wild 
Flower Preservation Society — American League for 
Civic Improvement — I'he Brooklyn Tree Planting 
Society — A Commendahle Work 337, 338 
*Park and Outdoor Art Association Convention 339 
Notes of the Convention 344 
Address of the Retiring President 345 
Popular Utilization of Public Reservations 347 
Program of Cemetery Superintendents' Convention.... 340 
Some Good Hypericums 349 
^Magnolia Stellata 350 
^Improvement Associations 351 
*Leaf Gall in Iowa 353 
The Cottony Maple Scale 353 
The Formal Garden 353 
^Garden Plants — Their Geography — LXXX 354 
Seasonable Suggestions 354 
Park Notes : ' 356 
Cemetery Notes 357 
*Reviews of Books. Reports, Etc 358 
* Illustrated. 
CONVEcNTION of The sixth annual convention of 
THEcA.V.&O.A- A, American Park and Outdoor 
Art Association was held in Boston, August 5-7, an 
account of which is given elsewhere in these columns. 
It was successful to a marked degree and gave positive 
evidence that as a reform movement it is gathering 
into its ranks the thinkers and teachers of the country 
as well as public spirited citizens of high social stand- 
ing. As had been anticipated, the arrangements were 
all that could be desired, and the program was inter- 
spersed with social functions which not only added to 
the pleasures of the convention, but provided occa- 
sions for strengthening acquaintanceship and promot- 
ing a better understanding of the work of the asso- 
ciation. Some inspiring suggestions were made in the 
addresses by President E. J. Parker of the Association, 
and President Eliot of Harvard University. At the 
close of Mr. Parker's address a committee was ap- 
pointed to act upon his discussion of the government 
reservations. Prof. Eliot devoted himself to the con- 
sideration of the means to be adopted to induce the 
American citizen to live more out of doors and to teach 
him to appreciate the beauties of nature. He advised 
the establishment of more restaurants in the parks, 
and of better transportation facilities ; he also advo- 
cated the encouragement of family picnic parties, so 
common in Europe, and made the radical proposition 
that berry and Hower picking should be permitted in 
our parks, thus making them, more than at present, a 
field for nature study by the children. A forcible 
paper was that of Mr. Bryan Lathrop, of Chicago, on 
“Parks and Landscape Gardening," in which he de- 
precated the tendency of to-dav towards "broad, stifif 
and unlovely formalism in landscape design,” and pro- 
tested against it from his belief that it would lead to 
the decadence of a most glorious art, which it would 
reduce to the condition of modern Italian sculpture, 
“mere technique without a spirit, a body without a 
soul." He regarded landscape gardening as not only 
one of the fine arts, but one of the greatest, with “pos- 
sibilities of which the others are absolutely incapable,” 
and laid heavy responsibility on the leaders in land- 
scape gardening if they failed to check the vagaries 
and inanities now crowding it, which if unchecked will 
prove its ruin and tend to lead to a false and per- 
verted national taste. Referring our readers to the 
more extended report, it may be added that the con- 
vention was held under the auspices of the Massachu- 
setts Horticultural Society and the Appalachian 
Mountain Club, factors contributing to the great suc- 
cess of the meeting, and which, it may be expected, 
will greatly aid in the promotion of the work of the 
Association. 
ST. ’PAUL COK^EN- The St. Paul (Minn.) convention 
TION OF cA. L. C. I. Qf American League for Civic 
Improvement has been postponed for one week, and 
will now be held September 24-27. The program 
covers a wide field, and a number of eminent authori- 
ties will be present to participate. St. Paul and Minne- 
apolis are both famed for their progressive spirit, and 
hospitable activity, and it is confidently expected that a 
very large attendance will honor the convention. With 
the recent convention of the American Park and Out- 
door Art Association at Boston, the Public Beauty 
week at Chautauqua, and the coming St. Paul meeting, 
the year 1902 should make the movement for improve- 
ment out of doors trulv a national one. 
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