PARK AND CEMETERY 
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JANUARY, 1917 
E D I T O R I A L 
VOL. XXVI No. 11 
Better Types of Cemetery Monuments 
W'e illustrate on another page some«of the better tx pes of ceme- 
tery monument.s that have been erected during the past vear, and 
which, we believe, show a higher average cpiality than those of last 
year and indicate that the monument trade is making sulistantial 
progress toward better design. One of the most encouraging 
signs is that we have received fewer specimens of the current 
"Ijattle-axe'’ types as best jobs. Very few firms are n nv willing 
to point with pride to the old-style "cap job" with hulging cap 
and too much base: the overgrown mass of rock-faced waves 
with a column protruding from one corner, or the st ick angel 
climbing the rock-faced steps, and proclaim them as "best jobs." 
Lots of them are still sold, but the dealer now recognizes that 
they are not to he classed with the tablet of graceful lines and 
refinement in decoration. Most of these designs show jirogress 
in refining the common types of cemetery monuments into some- 
thing of respectability in proportions and good taste in decoration. 
It is by a gradual refinement of stock forms that we make prog- 
ress to better things, and the progress from _\'ear to year is really 
noticeable. The monumental tablet t\ pe seems to be strongest in 
favor, both in its upright and horizontal stx lcs. Interesting efforts 
are being made to develop simple and appropriate decorati\ e treat- 
ments of these types, and from these efforts have resulted the 
best examples illustrated. The sarcophagus t \ pe still holds 
strongly in favor for massive work, hut in some instances is 
being evolved into a heavier form of tablet that might be termed 
a sarcophagus-tablet. The sarcophagus is being better decorated 
and executed in better proportion. Its broad, low contour and 
simple masses should not he squeezed together to get more 
height, and bases and caps should be subordinate to the die and 
harmoniously developed from it. Simplicit> and massiveness are 
its essential characteristics. The illustrations will hear careful 
study as showing the tendency of development in ordinary cem- 
eterv monuments. 
National Forest As Federal Game Preserve 
President Wilson has issued a proclamation by which the Pis- 
g,ah Xational Forest, in western_Xorth Carolina, is made a federal 
game preserve. This is the fir.st federal game preserve of its 
kind to he created east of the Mississippi River. I'he Pisgah 
Xational Forest consists largely of the George W. Vanderbilt 
estate, part of which has been purchased by the Government. The 
land is located near .Asheville and Biltmore, X. C. Owing to the 
protection against hunting which has been afforded the tract for 
a number of years, the game has not been killed out, as is the 
case in most jilaces in the southern mountains. Deer, wild ttirkey 
and pheasants are said to he plentiful. .After it was known that 
the tract would he acquired by the Government. man\ of the local 
citizens urged that the protection to the game shotdd be con- 
tinued. The Xorth Carolina Legislature passed an act whereby 
the state consented to the enactment h.\ Congress of laws for 
the protection of game, birds and fish on any lands purchased by 
the Government, under the Weeks law, in the western part of 
the state. 
.As a game preser\e. no hunting will be allowed on the forest, 
and as the deer and other game increase on the area, it is 
expected that the overllow will drift out of the forest and 
gradually restock adjacent lands. .A movement is now on foot to 
place a herd of elk and one buffalo in the jireserve this winter. 
Regulations governing the camiiing and lishing prixileges have 
been drawn up in co-operation with local citizens ;ind sporting- 
clubs and will be issued by the Secretary of .\gricidturc. It is 
understood that rcgukitcd fishing will be allowed, but the ntnnber 
of permits issued the first season will be purel\- experimental, 
since the capacity of the streams is not known. 
Fditoria! Notes 
There are thousands of trees in Massachusetts that are 
being injured by the nailing of advertising matter to them. 
Xot only is the bark injured and the cambium layer broken, 
which gives fungi an opportunity to attack the trees, but the 
spaces behind such signs serve as harbors for moths and 
other insects. These signs are fretpiently so abundant at road 
intersections as to confuse the traveler who desires to learn 
the direction he should take. It is distinctly against the law 
to pfjst such signs within the limits of the public highways. 
The law makes all signs not legally posted a public nuisance 
and permits anyone to remove them. The Massacluisetts bOr- 
estry .Association recently asked the public to co-operate dur- 
ing '“'I'ear-Down Week, ffetober 9 to 14. inclusive," in ridding 
the trees of this obnoxious nuisance. 
The farm woodlots of the United States contain about 10 
per cent of the total standing timber in the country. 
The bark of black oak, or ‘‘yellow oak,” as it is often called 
on account of the color of the inner bark, is now tised for 
dye-making. 
The planting of tree-, along the highways of .Xew N'ork i being 
studied by Prof. 11. R. Fraiicis. of the Landscape Extension 
Serxice of the State College of I'orestrx at .Syractise. bield 
studies and jilans haxe tdready bex'ii prejiared lor jiortions of the 
main high wax- between Utica and .\lbany, and the st;Ue highway 
betxveen Utica and Sxractise is now being carefully studied with 
the iflea of Prof, b'l-aucis to line the highxvays xvilh trees 
and shrubs. It is not tlu- idea ol Prol. brancis to line the 
highxvays with strai.ght rows ol trees. .Xainral vistas sln'xving 
beautx’ spots axvax’ from the highxvaxs xxill be left open, and it 
will be stiggcsted th:it other xistas be made so that the hiehwtixs 
xxill not alone be well pl.'inted with tries and shrubs, but there 
will be more netirlv ti park-like eltect with oppoi lunitix-’s of seeing 
the beauty of the countrx on either side. Plot, brancis is urging 
the use of native trees ;ind shrubs, taking .-idxantage in sn tar ;is 
possible of the materi.'d on the ground. It i- expected that these 
studies of highwtix pl.-inting will result in a iniblication -hoxving 
jitst how defmite tireas of highway m;iy be treated to best arlx.m- 
tage. 'I'hi- will siipplemi nt ;i bulletin on ".Suggestions for .Street 
'free Planting," which h;is ,ilre:id\ been given wide distribution by 
the college. 
