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NOVEMBER, 1916 
EDITORIAL 
VOL. XXVI No. 9 
Landscape Problem of the Cemetery Lot 
We have presented several articles in recent issues profusely 
illustrated with striking e.xamples of how the landscape beauty 
of the cemetery and the attractiveness of individual monu- 
ments may be enhanced by the proper planting of the ceme- 
tery lot to form a background for the memorial and screen 
i*- from its neighboring stones. \\'e print elsewhere in this 
issue another article on this subject, giving some specific sug- 
gestions as to just how these cemetery lot pictures are 
formed and what planting may be used to secure the beautiful 
effects shown. The time is coming when every cemetery lot 
will be studied and developed as an individual landscape pic- 
ture, and every cemetery and every monument maker should 
get prepared for this development. It is possible to provide 
exactly the proper landscape setting for every type of monu- 
ment, and the time is coming when a planting plan designed 
for the lot and the monument will be a part of the lot own- 
er’s purchase. In the ideal condition every monument would 
be designed for its own particular lot and every lot selected 
to give proper setting to the monument. In other words, the 
monument and the lot would be selected at the same time. 
Where, the lot has already been purchased the monument 
builder and his designer should study the lot and its sur- 
roundings and design a memorial to suit the lot and a land- 
scape setting should be planned to set it off. To get the best 
possible effect the planting, grading and improvement of the 
lot should be so carried out that lot, monument and planting 
would be a harmonious, unified composition. Great public 
monuments are planned in this way; beautiful homes and 
public buildings are planned in this way. A cemetery lot and 
its monument is just as much of a problem in artistic de- 
velopment as a public monument or a house. The time is 
coming when this fact will be generally recognized. 
For a State Landscape Architect 
There is at present an effort being made to secure the 
appointment of a state landscape architect in California, and 
William Vortriede, head gardener of Capital Park at Sacra- 
mento has made an interesting report to the Governor recom- 
mending the creation of this office. He gives the following 
reasons for the appointment of a state landscape architect: 
First: Every new institution should have a comprehensive 
general plan for buildings and grounds, not only for the pres- 
ent, but for the future needs of such an institution. In order 
to secure the best results, the state engineer, state architect, 
general superintendent of state hospitals and superintendent of 
public instruction should have the advice of a state landscape 
architect. 
Second: All existing state institutions that have not a 
general landscape plan should have one worked out in accord- 
ance with present conditions and future needs, by the state 
landscape architect. 
'Phird: Detailed plans for needed alterations should be 
made by him. 
Saving the 
State nursery inspectors, state foresters and other official 
representatives from New Hampshire, Vermont, New York, 
Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Massachusetts met at Fall 
River, Mass., on September 25, at the invitation of the Mas- 
sachusetts State Board of Agriculture, to examine a serious 
outbreak of the white pine blister rust on native white pine. 
This examination proved plainly to all that the blister rust is 
a deadly enemy of the white pine. 
Reports given by the representatives of the states showed 
that the white pine blister rust is already widely prevalent 
throughout the New England states and eastern New York, 
and as this dangerous disease uses the currant and goose- 
berry as a host plant to grow upon, and spreads very rapidly 
from currant to currant and from the currant to the pine, it 
v/as the unanimous opinion of all present that, as the only 
way to avert the impending catastrophe and save the white 
pine would be through a complete destruction of all currant 
Fourth: The state landscape architect should encourage 
and control the growing and distribution of trees and shrubs 
for orchard, ornamental planting and forest cover. The nur- 
series for the raising and distribution of young plants for all 
state institutions could be located at such institutions already 
having proper facilities for this work. 
Fifth: All public schools of the state should be able to 
secure the necessary information for the improvement of 
school grounds, and all new public schools, with grounds of 
three acres or more, should be furnished complete working 
plans by the state landscape architect free of charge, such 
public schools paying his traveling expenses should it be 
necessary for him to visit the grounds. 
Mr. Vortriede recommends that the state landscape architect 
be a university graduate in landscape architecture, with plenty 
of office and field experience, not less than thirty years old 
nor more than fifty. Fle should be under civil service, with a 
salary of three thousand dollars a year. Mr. Vortriede would 
be glad to have the opinions, experience and advice of land- 
scape architects in other states. 
White Pine 
and gooseberry bushes and flowering currants, the public 
should be given this information at once. 
This disease was brought into the United States from 
Europe on white pine seedlings. In the spring the spores or 
seeds are blown by the wind from diseased pines to the cur- 
rant and gooseberry leaves. The seeds germinate, penetrate 
the leaf tissues and produce a rust on the underside of the 
leaves in late summer and fall. 'Phe leaves produce millions 
of tiny spores or seeds capable of infecting the pines, which, 
once thoroughly infectefl, cannot recover. 
The currant and gooseberry leaves in large areas through- 
out the New P'.ngland states and eastern New York are now 
infected with the blister rust in the stage when it returns to 
the white pine, and these practical foresters have concluded 
that the immediate removal of currant and gooseberry bushes 
is necessary to save the white pine frees. 
