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AUGUST, 1915 
EDITORIAL 
VOL. XXV No. 6 
Influence of Parks o 
The remarkable system of parks that has been developed in 
Kansas City has frequently been the subject of description 
and comment in these pages, and park men throughout the 
country recognize the Kansas City park system as one of 
the models of park development. A writer in a recent issue 
of the Journal of the American Institute of Architects, pays 
high tribute to the parks of that city in pointing out the 
strong influence of park and boulevard development on do- 
mestic architecture. Says this writer: “Twenty years ago 
the homes of Kansas City were, with very few exceptions, 
commonplace houses with little architectural merit. Its 
streets were just as commonplace and uninteresting. Today 
there is probably no city in the country with such uniformly 
attractive residence sections and many miles of interesting 
streets lined with attractive homes and well-kept lawns. This 
is not only true of the ‘millionaire colonies,’ but just as true 
of the almost immeasurably more extensive streets of homes 
of moderate cost. It is no exaggeration to say that the 
quality of house-design has improved in Kansas City at least 
SCO per cent in the last fifteen years or so, and a very little 
analysis will discover the fairy cause of all this to be the 
municipal development of the park and boulevard system.” 
When the first boulevard was finished in Kansas City, with 
its scrupulously kept grass plots and planting, every house- 
owner whose yard fronted on that boulevard immediately took 
Individual Rights and 
An interesting and important discussion bearing on the 
right of the cemetery to maintain its rules and regulations 
especially as to forbidding outsiders to work on the cemetery 
grounds, is printed on another page. The right of a cemetery 
to build foundations for monumental work has seldom been 
questioned, and the majority of the better cemeteries are now 
building the foundations for monuments and mausoleums. 
There has occasionally been serious difficulty, however, in 
maintaining the rule which forbids outside gardeners from 
doing planting on individual lots, and certain other rules which 
Operations of the < 
An increasing number of complaints have been received 
during the past four years, by The New York State College of 
Forestry at Syracuse concerning unsatisfactory work and ex- 
orbitant charges by co-called tree doctors. These complaints 
have come from all sections of the state and are the result of 
careless and unsatisfactory work upon shade trees in private 
grounds, streets and parks. The neighboring states of Penn- 
sylvania and Massachusetts have also been overrun by these 
quack tree doctors who make the wildest promises as to the 
curing of chestnut blight and other tree troubles which our 
ablest scientists know that as a rule there are no easy 
methods of combatting or curing. There is undoubtedly a 
legitimate field for good tree surgery and the practice of 
arboriculture by men who have had both training and ex- 
perience. The College is warning the citizens of New York 
State against fraudulent representations and impossible results 
promised by incompetent fellows who are ready to take ad- 
vantage of sentiment regarding trees to charge exorbitant 
rates and to do work which may be of little benefit to the 
trees. Because the work is new' and people do not under- 
i Home Architecture 
pains to see that his lawn did not suffer by comparison with 
the boulevard. After the boulevard lawns were improved, 
the germ of tidiness and attractiveness spread to nearby 
streets, and so, gradually, as boulevard mileage and park 
acreage increased, the whole residence city improved and 
took on attractiveness. We all know the layman’s tendency 
to plant trees and shrubs and flowers in geometrical orchard 
fashion on his lawn; but, after seeing the far greater effective- 
ness of the good grouping and composition of the park 
plantings, it was a dull citizen indeed who did not go home 
and at least try to do likewise, usually with very fair success. 
Kansas City has never had a complete city plan, only its 
very comprehensive and broad park and boulevard scheme, 
but this park and driveway system, with the limitations of the 
peculiar topography of the city, have automatically and 
naturally developed a city plan in so far as the disposition 
of the business, manufacturing, and residence areas were con- 
cerned. This plan, being natural, is far more effective than 
one imposed by legislation. Kansas City is proud of its 
sixty miles of park drives lined with handsome homes and 
apartments, and even more of the many times. sixty miles of 
well-kept, attractive side streets which merely profited by the 
example of the boulevards, whose owners grasped the lesson 
brought to their doors. Thus is again pointed out that park 
development pays in dollars and cents, and in civic health and 
happiness. 
Cemetery Regulations 
may at times seem to abridge the freedom of the lot owner 
in improving his lot. 
There seems to be no manner of question regarding the 
necessity of reasonable, but firm and unvarying regulations 
that shall conserve the interests of the cemetery and the lot 
owners as a body against the occasional eccentricities of the 
individual lot owner. 
Every cemetery manager should study carefully the legal 
aspect of his rules and regulations in their relation to the de- 
cisions of the courts and the statutes of his state. 
^uack Tree Doctor 
stand how cheaply good work can be done, they are being 
taken advantage of constantly and often being charged from 
two or three times more than necessary. The raising and 
care of forest trees for streets, home grounds and parks is 
nevertheless closely connected with the proper development 
of forestry. With a growing interest in city planting and the 
beautification of home grounds and country properties there 
is an increasing demand for men trained thoroughly for the 
carrying out of city street and park work, and other phases 
of arboriculture. This demand the schools of forestry are 
filling by offering professional courses in Arboriculture or 
City Forestry which will train men thoroughly and effectively 
for every phase of work connected with the planting, care 
and protection of shade trees, whether upon private grounds, 
in streets or parks. Within a few years there should be a 
strong body of technically trained men within the state thor- 
oughly prepared to carry out this work effectively and able 
to handle the single tree of the private owner or the park and 
shade trees of a whole city in such a way that the title Tree 
Doctor or Arborist will be one of respect and not one of 
reproach. 
