PARK AND CEMETERY 
and Landscape Gardening. 
Vol. XII CHICAGO, NOVEMBER, 1902. No, 9 
Entered at the Postofhce at Chicag’o as Second Class Matter. 
CONTENTS. 
Editorial — The New York Florists’ Club Exhibit — Essex 
County Park System — Care of 'I'rees in Kansas City 
— Cemetery Monuments — Landscape Art at Harvard 
— Practical Forestry 404. 405 
A Decade of Civic Improvement 406 
More Land for Essex County Parks 407 
*Crepe Myrtle ( Lagerstroemia Indica) 408 
Park Systems for Cities and 'I'owns 408 
*New York Flower and Sculpture Show 410 
'I'he Chicago Flower Show 410 
*'l'he Garden of Gethsemane 41 1 
Statistics of Cremation 412 
*A City Forester’s Planting on Home Grounds 412 
*Greenlawn Cemetery Lodge, Portsmouth, 0 414 
*Improvement Associations 415 
Revival of Geometric Landscape Gardening 417 
^Garden Plants — 'I'heir Geography — LXXXllI 419 
Seasonable Suggestions ^ 420 
Liability for Burial on Wrong Lot 421 
Correspondence 422 
*Park Notes 423, 4 
^Cemetery Notes 425, 6 
Reviews of Books, Reports, etc 427 
^Illustrated. 
ESSEX COUNTY It is a matter for congratulation 
'PARK SYSTEM. lovers of non-political park 
management, that by direct vote of the people two im- 
portant measures, vital to the interests of the Essex 
County, N, J,, park system, and which were passed 
by the Legislature of that state last spring, have been 
ratified. One provides for an additional appropria- 
tion of one million dollars, which will in a sense for 
the present complete the system, and the other, in the 
nature of a mandatory maintenance act, places the 
control of the parks outside the pale of party politics. 
The Essex County park system has attracted consid- 
erable attention from all cjuarters, not only from its 
comprehensive design and the ver\' high order of in- 
telligence and skill devoted to its development, but 
from the fact that politics has been rigidly excluded 
from participation in the control of the project. It 
will be hardly necessary to state that the result of the 
recent election will encourage the commissioners, 
whose services are gratuitious, to prosecute the work 
along the lines so carefully planned and to the limit of 
the funds economically expended which are again 
])laced at their disposal. It also emi)hasizes the point 
that the people ai)prove the efforts of their representa- 
tives in the park management and decline to afford 
another oi)])ortunitv for political mismanagement and 
dishonesty. 
THE NEW YORK The annual fall flower show of 
FLOWER SHOW. New York Florists’ Clul), held 
at Madison Square Carden, Oct. 30-Nov. 6, was an 
improvement on all jmevious efforts. The co-opera- 
tion with the National Sculpture Society secured a 
combination of sculpture, foliage and flowers which 
resulted in some exceedingly beautiful effects, and 
emphasized the wisdom of such co-operation. Gen- 
erally speaking, it was an artistic success, but unfor- 
tunately from all accounts a success in this direction 
only. There is evidently something radically wrong 
in the organization and conduct of the whole affair ; 
a lack of harmony and much apathy among the florists 
was plainly api)arent, and the methods of awards and 
decisions of the judges have drawn some criticism 
from the New York press. Some poor arrange- 
ments of exhibits and a dominant spirit of commer- 
cialism are among the charges made, which serves at 
least to show an absence of the proper make-up of 
the committees of management. It is to be regretted, 
however, that for an exhibition requiring so large an 
outlay, the attendance was not more encouraging. 
CARE OF TREES Kansas City is now setting an up- 
IN KANSAS CITY, to-date example for our western 
cities in the care of its street trees. It has se- 
cured the services of a properly qualified city 
forester, and has passed ordinances regulating the 
planting, trimming and care of its trees in such 
terms and under such provisions that its citizens 
will realize their importance and the necessitv of 
conforming to them in a wise and co-operative spirit. 
