PARK AND CEMETERY 
and Landscape Gardening. 
VoL XII CHICAGO, FEBRUARY, 1903. No. 12 
Entered at the PostoflBce at Chicag'o as Second Class Matter. 
CONTENTS. 
gineering, science, law, etc. A fundamental plan of 
city improvement must be settled upon for a base, broad 
enough to include both public and private expenditures 
and so comprehensive as to avoid the possibility of 
serious changes in the near future. 
Editorial — Municipal Art Associations — The National Irri- 
gation Act — The New Ohio Code — School Gardens — 
Maintenance of Our Parks — Where to Plant Shade 
Trees 476, 477 
The Parks of San Diego, Cal 478 
* The Improvement of School Grounds . . . '. 479 
Regarding Landscape Design 482 
*Wade Memorial Chapel, Lakeview Cemetery, Cleve- 
land, 0 484 
* Hydrangea Paniculata Grandiflora 486 
Notes on Tree Planting 486 
* Improvement Associations 487 
* Two Patented Tree Moving Devices 489 
* Garden Plants — Their Geography — LXXX\T 490 
Seasonable Suggestions 493 
* The Cemeteries of Paris 494 
Park Notes 495 
Among the Landscape Gardeners 495 
Cemetery Notes 496 
Cemetery Legal Decisions 497 
Reviews of Books, Reports, etc 498 
* Illustrated. 
MUNICIPAL ART The scope of the work which can 
ASSOCIATIONS. effectively compassed by a muni- 
cipal art association is not always understood. Art as 
applied to municipal requirements is not confined to 
architectural or sculptural embellishment, but is far 
broader in its field. This may be better comprehended 
by a reflection on the report, recently made public, of 
the Municipal Art Society of New York, which at the 
request of the mayor has been collecting and summariz- 
ing the plans and suggestions of the various societies 
which have been interested in the improvement of that 
city. The report presents a plan for city improvement 
and embellishment which deals with everything affect- 
ing its beauty or topography, and discusses passenger 
traffic, parks, public buildings and their decoration, 
public monuments, and general topics, including the 
naming of streets and the disposition of historical tab- 
lets. The report suggests the appointment of a com- 
petent commission to include representatives from the 
leading lines of activity — art, landscape gardening, en- 
NATIONAL IRRI- While there was considerable op- 
GATION ACT. position to the National Irrigation 
act by certain classes, there would now appear to be 
ample necessity for the utmost vigilance on the part of 
the government, in order to make sure that the benefits 
to accrue from its operation shall inure to those for 
whom it was enacted. A raid upon the lands to be irri- 
gated is under rapid headway, and enormous areas are 
being acquired for private ownership and speculative 
purposes. Our government should awake to the neces- 
sity of modifying existing laws and enacting new ones 
at once, so as to frustrate the nefarious practices of 
those of our citizens who have found their government 
so easy in all such questions. This is an excellent op- 
portunity for the representatives of the people at 
Washington to redeem themselves somewhat. 
THE NEW The new code bill recently 
OHIO CODE. passed by the Ohio legislature, 
which does away with all the park boards, has 
also abolished the offices of cemetery trustees. The 
unsavory reputation of the last Ohio legislature will re- 
quire a long time to dissipate, and much that it has 
done will undoubtedly have to be undone in the near 
future. Either the new code was very loosely drawn, 
or it was intentionally arranged to play into the hands 
of the politicians. On the question of cemetery trustees 
the attorney-general has suggested that to cover the de- 
fects in the code, city councils in publishing ordinances 
prescribing the duties of the boards of public affairs, 
should specifically add those of trustees of cemeteries. 
A correspondent remarks that there will he a rush by 
politicians for park offices this spring, with disastrous 
consequences, of course. 
SCHOOL At the annual convention of the 
GARDENS. American Park and Outdoor Art 
Association, held in Boston last August, a session was 
devoted to the important subject of School Gardens, 
and from the interest displayed by those present it is 
