PARK AND CEMETERY 
and Landscape Gardening. 
Vol, XII CHICAGO, DECEMBER, 1902. No, 10 
Entered at the Postoffice at Chicag'o as Second Class Matter. 
CONTENTS. 
Editorial — Meehan’s Monthly — Landscape Art in Essex 
County Parks — Civic Beauty in St. Louis — Park 
Making — The Progress of Cremation — Appalachian 
National Park — Grave Rohhery 428, 429 
Park Development and Maintenance 430 
Cemetery Lot Enclosures 432 
*Some Children's Gardens 433 
Variety Through Diverse Conditions 435 
*Red Mill Park, Areola, N. J 436 
^National Sculpture Society Exhibit 437 
A Group of Euonymuses 438 
*A Cemetery Memorial Chapel, Portland, Me 439 
*Machine Road Making 440 
Improvement Associations 441 
Progress of Cremation in America 442 
Experiments with Clover Seed 442 
Design and Construction of Mausoleums 442 
*Franklin Cemetery, Franklin, Pa 443 
*Garden Plants — Their Geography — LXXXIV 444 
Seasonable Suggestions 446 
Cemetery Legal Decisions 447 
^Monumental Notes 448 
Park Notes 449 
Cemetery Notes 450 
Reviews of Books, Reports, etc 451 
^Illustrated. 
SHEEHAN'S It is with exceeding regret that 
SHONTHLY. observe a notice in the No- 
vember issue of Meehan s Monthly of the discontinu- 
ance of that valuable and interesting botanical and 
horticultural magazine. Associated so intimately 
with the late lamented Thomas Meehan, it has stood 
for truth and ])rogress throughout its career, and as 
an educator and reliable source of information in hor- 
ticultural matters. All who came to know the maga- 
zine and understand the motives actuating its editor 
and publishers also realized that it was a “labor of 
love and from this there sprang an indefinable sense 
of something more than mere appreciation of their 
labors. It is certain that its regular readers will miss 
its monthly visits, not alone for the intrinsic value of 
the information contained in its columns, but also for 
the inspiration it imparted for the highest and best in 
horticulture and landscape gardening. 
LANDSCAPE c4RT In the Landscape Architect’s 
IN ESSEX CO< PARKS report to the Essex County (N. 
J.) park commission, dated Sept. 24, 1902, and which 
forms part of the general report of that commission 
for 1901, there are some very interesting and instruc- 
tive discussions of the details of design and work, ac- 
complished and proposed, for the complete develojj- 
ment of this county park system. This extensive 
project has attracted well deserved attention, not alone 
on account of its extent, but also for the up-to-date 
methods which have marked its progress, and the high 
order of professional services engaged in the work. 
Messrs. Olmsteds’ arguments for their design of the 
middle division of Branch Brook Park afford a good 
illustration of the power of art in landscape garden- 
ing. The topography of this section tends to form an 
enclosed scene, complete in itself, and concerning the 
planting of this the report says : “As one would ex- 
pect the bank facing to the north to be shady, and 
therefore rather dark in tone, the choice of trees and 
shrubs for that part of the border included not only 
those like the hemlock and rhododendron, whose foli- 
age naturally becomes dark in partial shade, but also 
various purple foliaged trees and shrubs like the pur- 
ple beech and purple-leaved barberry and rose and 
those having large, heavy leaves. This style of plant- 
ing occupies the south end and is carried partly along 
the east and west sides, graduall}^ merging toward the 
north end into plantations having light green and 
rather light feathery foliage, which again merges into 
gray and silvery tones of foliage on the bright, sunny 
southern exposure of the steep bank at the north end 
Such a scene is, in a sense, unnatural, yet it is based on 
a study of the methods of nature. The local condi- 
tions of topography are simply made to enforce cer- 
tain logical results in the vegetation in an exaggerated 
wav, so that the least trained and most careless visitor 
can hardly escape noticing the distinct expression of a 
purpose. * * * It is fail for the landscape gar- 
dener sometimes to entertain his audience.” As in 
the drama, “especially when there is little or nothing 
of nature to start with, as was the case in this part of 
the park. In Japanese gardening this exaggerated 
imitation is perhaps generall}" carried to an extreme 
which makes it purely grotesque, as acting is apt to be 
in melodrama. Formal gardening, on the other hand, 
places itself beyond criticism from the basis of nature 
and natural beauty. It corresponds with a military 
dress parade, or chorus or ballet dancing on the stage, 
in using natural objects with artificial objects in a 
frankly formal, unnatural way.” The above extract 
also impresses one with the conclusion that landscape 
gardening involves a very high order of intelligence 
and taste for its successful practice, founded on a lib- 
eral education arranged to that end. 
