Notes and Reviews 
A program of the competition for the pro¬ 
posed McKinley Memorial in Philadel¬ 
phia has just been issued. The work is to 
include a portrait statue of the late President, 
together with a suitable architectural setting. 
All sculptors, without restriction as to citizen¬ 
ship or nationality, are invited to compete by 
submitting designs in the form of plaster 
sketch-models to be prepared at a scale of 
one and one-half inches to the foot. These 
models must be deposited with the Secretary 
of the Committee between February 2 and 
March 2, 1903. In order to afford the 
freest scope for a sculptor’s ability, no restric¬ 
tions are made as to size or materials of the 
proposed monument, but only its cost. This 
is not to exceed $30,000. 
A jury of award will be composed of 
M essrs. Wilson Eyre and Theophilus P. 
Chandler, appointed by the Pennsylvania 
Academy of the Fine Arts; Edward H. 
Coates and Charles E. Dana, appointed by 
the Committe on Works of Art, Fairmount 
T he rose is glorified and capitalized 
throughout Miss Jekyll’s and Mr. Maw- 
ley’s “ Roses for English Gardens.” 1 In 
turning its pages an observing reader may 
find also much that will apply to roses in 
American gardens, for there are many well- 
known hybrids which are common to both 
England and America, while an intimate 
knowledge of their habits and their useful¬ 
ness for certain artistic ends has not yet been 
satisfactorily set down for America alone. 
To all of the favorite old varieties is added 
a list of the new sorts which can be depended 
upon in the garden and the discovery of 
which, the authoress remarks, is “ one of the 
most distinct and wholesome effects of the 
spread of garden knowledge.” 
To a part of the volume which deals with 
the culture of the rose is contributed the 
practical experience of Mr. Mawley. The 
conditions, however, which govern the prun¬ 
ing, the propagation of roses, the care of 
roses under glass and their preparation tor 
exhibition are so dependent upon locality, 
climate and chemical nature of the soil that 
the information given is unfortunately useful 
1 Roses for English Gardens, by Gertrude Jekyll and Edward Maw¬ 
ley. 166 pp., 192 half-tone ills. Imported by Charles Scribner’s 
Sons, New York. Price, $3-75 net. 
Park Art Association ; J. Q. A. Ward and 
Paul Bartlett, appointed by the National 
Sculpture Society, and Frank Miles Day, 
appointed by the Philadelphia Chapter of the 
American Institute of Architects. These 
gentlemen will determine the five best designs 
to be awarded $500 each and the best design 
of all suitable for execution. The site 
selected is in front of the east wing of 
Memorial Hall in Fairmount Park. The 
statue is to face upon a drive lined with a 
single row of young trees. Directly before 
it a similar drive, at right angles with the 
first, terminates. Behind it, about a hundred 
and twenty feet away, will be a classic build¬ 
ing of gray stone, half vine-covered. The 
cornice lines of the building are all horizon¬ 
tal and about its base are masses of flowers 
and shrubs. Intending competitors should 
remember that their work may be seen from 
all sides, and they should have knowledge, 
too, of a colossal bronze Pegasus and the 
Smith Memorial, both of which are near by. 
only to the English reader or to the horti¬ 
culturist. It is rather the esthetic effect of 
the rose, its place in the garden, its part in 
a general scene, its harmonies of color (even 
in its dead foliage in winter) that constitute 
for Americans the chief value of the book. 
Roses which love to clamber upon a wall or 
run along its top, roses for arches, pillars and 
gateways, screens and hedges, roses for small 
and enclosed spaces or for open lawns—all 
these Miss Jekyll describes with enough 
exactness to lead the amateur and without 
that scientific detail which dismays him. The 
value of the rose is dwelt upon for convert¬ 
ing ugliness into beauty by prettily wreathing 
a dead tree-trunk, an ungainly out-building or 
transforming into a pleasant home a structure 
which was once a forlorn landmark. Possi¬ 
bilities of a new and greater beauty not yet 
obtained for the rose garden are hinted at; and 
garden designers in America may well profit 
by Miss Jekyll’s advice upon the general 
arrangement of gardens which are to contain 
roses, and the position and planting of that 
important feature, the pergola. Like its com¬ 
panion volumes, the present book contains a 
great number of illustrations beautiful in their 
subjects and of that fine technical quality 
which only English printing ink can give. 
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