PARK AND CEMETERY 
AND LANDSCAPE GARDENING 
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JANUARY, 1916 
EDITORIAL 
VOL. XXV No. 11 
Landscape Art in the Cemetery Lot 
Some examples of fine monuments well placed, illustrated on 
another page in this issue, show encouraging evidence that there 
is some progress being made in our cemeteries toward that ideal 
condition of cemetery art in which every monument should be an 
original work of art with a landscape setting especially planned 
to set it off to best advantage. To get the best possible develop- 
ment of cemetery and monumenal art, the lot and the monu- 
ment should be selected to harmonize and should be developed to- 
gether. The monument designer and the landscape architect 
should work hand in hand. The designer should study the lot 
and build a monument suitable to its surroundings, and the land- 
scape architect should be called into consultation, so that lot and 
monument might form a harmonious landscape picture. In this 
way only can the ultimate ideals of cemetery art be attained. 
Great public monuments, homes and public buildings are planned 
in this way. A cemetery lot is just as much of a problem in 
artistic development as a monument or a house. Progress in 
cemetery art is necessarily slow, and a casual glance into nearly 
any cemetery would lead one to believe that the attainment of 
this artistic development of the individual cemetery lot is a long 
way in the future, but the examples illustrated in this issue show 
that this ideal condition not only can be approximately realized, 
but actually has been in a great number of instances. Cemetery 
art is making progress, and we are glad to present some concrete 
evidence to this effect. 
Common Sense Labels on Park Trees 
Under the above interesting title, Mr. J. J. Levison has some 
practical and interesting comments to make in a recent issue of 
“American Forestry,” from which we quote as follows: “Years 
ago requests began to come to the Brooklyn Park Department’s 
office regarding the labeling of trees in the public parks. We 
then endeavored to comply with the evident public demand for 
instruction of the ‘he who runs may read’ variety. At that time 
the department manufactured some labels by stamping lead plates 
and attached them to park trees with generous impartiality in an 
attempt to cover all extra species as well as native ones with use- 
ful as well as ornamental information. In many parks this system 
of labeling the extra species burdened the busy public with too 
many names and details, requiring for the average pedestrian the 
use of a pocket dictionary and not assisting him one whit in the 
knowledge of that one particular tree which adorned his own 
back yard. We therefore had to devise a new label which would 
not immediately become lost, strayed or stolen because of its 
lead valuation, and a quantity of real, practical knowledge was 
posted in the parks for general dissemination. The system which 
has now been adopted by the department differs from that of the 
botanical gardens in that it confines itself to 100 of the most com- 
mon trees — the 100 which everyone ought to know. The label is 
a simple, enameled label, brief in context, thoroughly legible and 
without the special information usually put on labels informing 
the beholder of the tree’s family, locality and other details. The 
nomenclature used is the latest and dates on best authorities. 
Only the common and botanical names of the tree appear upon the 
labels. Following our custom of dwelling upon the special char- 
acteristics by which almost every tree may be recognized at all 
seasons of the year, rather than by less permanent features, the 
trees were labeled in winter time and identification based upon 
these permanent characteristics and not upon leaves. Park authori- 
ties always find that the public takes a real interest in the matter.” 
Editorial Notes 
The report of the National Forest Reservation Commission for 
the fiscal year 1915 has just been submitted to Congress by the 
president of the commission, Secretary of War Garrison. It shows 
that the commission has to date approved the purchase of 1,317,000 
acres in the mountains of the East, out of a proposed total of 
some 6,000,000 acres. The purchases total 256,000 acres in New 
Hampshire, 294,000 acres in Virginia, 108,000 acres in West Vir- 
ginia, 267,000 in Tennessee, 269,000 in North Carolina, 23,000 in 
South Carolina, and 96,000 in Georgia. 
Dr. L. H. Pennington, forest pathologist of the New York State 
College of Forestry at Syracuse, has just found the chestnut tree 
blight in a chestnut grove at Sand Ridge, not far from Phoenix. 
This is the first report of an occurrence of the blight in this sec- 
tion of New York state. The presence of the blight in Oswego 
County indicates that the chestnut trees in all parts of the state 
will sooner or later be attacked. The occurrence of the blight at 
Sand Ridge is in the form of a spot infection where but a single 
tree is found to be infected. The tree in this instance was already 
completely girdled and killed and the fungi in fruiting condition. 
Other trees may therefore have been infected before this one was 
discovered and removed. If these spot infections can be discov- 
ered in time and the diseased trees removed and destroyed at 
once, the general spread of the disease may be retarded and the 
life of chestnut groves prolonged several years in this part of the 
state. 
“Iowa people were never before so anxious for help in estab- 
lishing and developing specialized lines of agriculture like dairy- 
ing, fruit growing, poultry raising and vegetable gardening,” says 
Director R. K. Bliss, of the agricultural extension department at 
Iowa State College, at Ames, la. “There has been such demand 
for short courses on these subjects that we are starting a new 
course to deal with all four, and one more, landscape gardening. 
The interest in the beautification of communities, parks, ceme- 
teries and private grounds is large, and that is why the last sub- 
ject is included.” 
As a result of the Insecticide Act of 1910, farming communities 
in particular are now receiving a much higher grade of insecti- 
cides and fungicides than formerly, according to the annual report 
of the Insecticide and Fungicide Board, just issued by the United 
States Department of Agriculture. The improvement in the 
quality of these articles, says the report, encourages their use by 
farmers and is of great assistance in combating plant diseases and 
insect pests. 
