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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
Oak, A New California, by Geo, B, 
Sudworth, Illust, F, I. 13:157-8. 
March, ’07. 
Pennsylvania Forestry Legislation, Pro- 
posed. For. L., 11 :2-5. Feb., ’07. 
Perennials, A Few Good, by W. C. Egan, 
Gard., 15:164-5. Feb, 15, ’07. 
Rainfall and Temperature. Relation of. 
to Tree Growth. P. W.. 9:392-3. 
Dec. ’06. 
Spruces and Firs, The Best, by T. D. 
Hatfield. Illust. C. L. A., 11:326. 
Jan., ’07. 
Weeping Trees, The Best, by Thos. 
McAdam. Illust. G. M., 5 :76-7. 
March, ’07. 
REPORTS, ETC., RECEIVED 
■‘Every Farmer Can Raise Ever- 
greens,” is the title of an interesting 
little illustrated pamphlet by C. S. Har- 
rison, of York, Neb. Mr. Harrison has 
had thirty-five years’ experience in cul- 
tivating evergrens in the semi-arid re- 
gions of the west and says that the 
ponderosa or bull pine is the tree for 
the west. He gives some very practical 
illustrated directions for the cultivation 
•of evergreens. 
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“Hints and Helps for Young Garden- 
ers,” by H. D. Hemenway, is a brief, 
■practical and excellent treatise on home 
and school gardening for those young 
in experience as well as for youthful 
gardeners. It has grown out of the au- 
thor’s extensive experience at the 
School of Horticulture, Hartford, Conn., 
and is an excellent introduction to the 
work of home and school gardening. 
It is illustrated with numerous photo- 
graphs and plans. Published by H. D. 
Hemenway, director of the School of 
Horticulture, Hartford, Conn. Price, 
35 cents. :tc =(= * 
The seventeenth annual report of the 
Missouri Botanical Garden contains 
eight interesting scientific papers on 
botanical subjects, a report of the offi- 
cers of the board, and the report of the 
director. The director’s report notes 
an unusual increase in the herbarium. 
A number of important purchases were 
added to this department, and valuable 
specimens and photographs were re- 
ceived from numerous foreign gardens. 
The total additions for 1905 amounted 
to 34.535 specimens. The number of 
visitors for the year was 100,830. 
Among the special greenhouse collec- 
tions the succulents, palms, cycads, and 
-orchids attracted particular attention 
and each of these classes has been ma- 
terially enlarged. The total number of 
specimens in the herbarium is 533,845. 
The receipts for the year amounted to 
^285,316. 
The Playground Association of 
America, recently organized, has issued 
an illustrated prospectus telling of the 
organization and objects of the asso- 
ciation and giving a list of the officers 
and committees. Dr. Henry S. Curtis, 
926 F. St., N. W., Washington, D. C., 
is secretary. 
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Bulletin 244 of the Michigan State 
Agricultural College State Experiment 
Station is entitled “Insects New or Un- 
usual in Michigan,” by R. H. Pettit. 
The Bulletin is quite freely illustrated 
and gives accurate descriptions with di- 
rections for extermination of many in- 
sect pests that have appeared in that 
state in the last few years. 
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The Iowa State College of Agricul- 
ture and Mechanic Arts at Ames, la., 
has issued Bulletin No. 4, their “com- 
pendium number,” a beautifully illus- 
trated book descriptive of the work of 
that institution. The school has a strong 
equipment along horticultural and agri- 
cultural lines, and the new Agricultural 
Hall is now under construction. The 
book gives an interesting description of 
the work of the department of horticul- 
ture and forestry. 
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Cedar Grove Cemetery Association, 
one of the new suburban cemeteries 
near Brooklyn, N. Y., sends a hand- 
somely illustrated descriptive booklet 
telling about all the features of that 
rural cemetery. 
PUBLISHER’S NOTES 
It is becoming a habit with publish- 
ers, and from experience, evidently a 
good one, occasionally to take their pat- 
rons into their confidence, and by ex- 
pressing their hopes and desires, and 
giving facts in regard to their particu- 
lar publication, invite a better under- 
standing and more intimate co-opera- 
tion in the work of both keeping a little 
ahead of the times and maintaining a 
constant standard of improvement. It 
is on these lines that we ask the par- 
ticular attention of our readers to the 
following : 
It is a matter of fact, as regards this 
journal, that both in circulation and ad- 
vertising patronage there has been a con- 
tinual increase, showing a steady 
growth ; and while no effort has been 
spared to make its reading pages as 
instructive and interesting as possible 
in the various departments of improve- 
ment work it covers, it is nevertheless 
felt to be incumbent to ask the earnest 
co-operation of its subscribers and pat- 
rons in increasing these essentials to 
successful magazine work. 
With this' issue .Park and Cemetery 
AND Landscape Gardening begins its 
seventeenth annual volume, and under 
more favorable conditions than ever be- 
fore. Notwithstanding the increasing 
number of publications taking up the 
beautifying of home surroundings, and 
outdoor improvement generally, this 
publication still remains in a class by 
itself, and furnishes a fund of informa- 
tion not found elsewhere ; and it is 
freely acknowledged to have been a 
helpful force in bettering civic condi- 
tions among numbers of communities in 
many parts of the country. 
But these gratifying conditions de- 
mand that still more of this class of in- 
structive work should be done, and to 
do it the journal must have the active 
sympathy and co-operation of those 
vitally interested, with a view of still 
further building up its circulation so as 
to extend its usefulness. And it might 
be added here that, to those who have 
so long assisted, editorially and other- 
wise, in bringing the publication up to 
its present marked position the publish- 
er is deeply grateful. 
Iri American journalism it has always 
been a fact that a publication’s financial 
success actually depends very largely on 
its advertising patronage. To retain 
this patronage, satisfactory results must 
be realized, and their realization and 
the consequent permanent use of its ad- 
vertising columns induces increased use 
by those advertisers’ already satisfied, 
and by others who note the permanence 
of regular patrons. Our readers, there- 
fore, who have the welfare of the paper 
at heart, should patronize its advertis- 
ers at all times and give it credit for 
the introduction. The limited field of 
advertising covered by the journal 
makes this request particularly perti- 
nent. 
Improvement in every department 
may confidently be looked for this year. 
Among many important features, Mr. 
Edward T. Hartman, secretary of the 
Massachusetts Civic League, Boston, 
and one of the most active workers in 
that state, will contribute a series of in- 
teresting articles on the work of civic 
improvement in his state, the first one, 
which appears in this issue, being on 
Northampton, one of the best examples 
of individual work in the development 
of community affairs. 
Mr. Joseph Meehan, well known to 
our readers, will begin in the April 
number a monthly article on flowering 
shrubs, illustrated with a picture of the 
shrub commonly blossoming during the 
month in which his article appears. 
