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The Department of Agriculture has 
issued through the Forest Service some 
valuable bulletins on different phases of 
Forestry. As reprints from the year book 
of the department of agriculture, are the 
following: “Progress of Forestry in 
1906, and directory of Forest officers, as-- 
sociations and schools;” and “Introduc- 
tion of Elementary Agriculture into 
Schools.” Farmers’ Bulletin 308 is 
“Game Laws for 1907 Circular 109, 
“Forest Planting in the North Platte 
and South Platte Valleys ;” and Circu- 
lar 116, “The Waning Hardwood Sup- 
ply and the Appalachian Forests.” “The 
Annual Report of the Office of Experi- 
ment Stations” for 1906 has also just 
been issued. It is an illustrated book 
of 434 pages. The work of the office of 
experiment stations is described and il- 
lustrated reports of all of the prominent 
stations in the country are given. 
Handsome illustrated report of the 
Park Commissioner of St. Louis for 
1905-6. 
West Laurel Hill Cemeter\-, Philadel- 
phia, sends a finely illustrated book 
of general information about the ceme- 
tery that includes some interesting mat- 
ter about the brick graves which this 
cemetery builds, and a list of lot holders 
indexed by pictures of monuments, a 
device well calculated to lend interest 
and attractiveness to a long list of 
names, generally unprepossessing in ap- 
pearance. 
The Dublin Cemeteries, Prospect 
(Glasnevin) and Goldenbridge, 1829- 
1906, Dublin, Ireland. Extracts from 
the Bye-Laws of the Dublin Cemeteries’ 
Committee, Rules and Regulations, etc., 
etc. The “History of the Dublin Ceme- 
teries” was reviewed at length in these 
columns about two years ago, and the 
book now to hand is a sumptuous rec- 
ord of the by-laws, rules and regula- 
tions and other matter pertaining to the 
management and maintenance of these 
celebrated cemeteries. Additional no- 
tice will be given later. 
Some recent bulletins of the New 
York Agricultural Station at Geneva, 
N. Y., are the following: No. 287, 
“Bordeaux Injury,” by U. P. Hedrick; 
No. 288, “Ringing Herbaceous 
Plants” ; No. 289, “Unprofitable Or- 
chard Fertilizing”; and “The Effect of 
Wood Ashes and Acid Phosphate on 
the Yield and Color of Apples,” also 
published as Bulletin. No. 289. 
Oak Park Cemetery, Chandler, Okla., 
a new city- tract, allows no enclosures, 
wire screens, stone or cement coping 
or hedges about the lots, and its rule 
book shows other provisions along 
modern and progressive lines. 
PERSONAL NOTES 
Mr. Charles Mulford Robinson, of 
Rochester, N. Y., who has recently pre- 
pared reports on the beautifying of sev- 
eral of the smaller cities of New York, 
on a recent western trip extending as 
far as Los Angeles stopped at Dubuque 
and Des Moines, la., where he w’as a 
guest of the Women’s Clubs and other 
civic organizations that are working for 
the development of those cities. At Des 
Moines the City Federation of Wom- 
en’s Clubs and the Greater Des Moines 
Committee received him officially and 
heard some of his suggestions for mu- 
nicipal beauty. 
Mr. H. P. Baker, professor of forestry 
at the Iowa State College, has resigned 
to accept a similar position at the Penn- 
sylvania Agricultural College, and took 
up his new work in September. Profes- 
sor Baker was the first instructor to 
take up forestry work at Ames and has 
occupied the position of Professor of 
Forestry since the department "was es- 
tablished in 1904. His work there has 
been unusually successful and a number 
of his graduates have passed the civil 
service examination for positions in the 
United States Forest Service. 
Fred R. Mathews, superintendent of 
the West Side parks of Cleveland, O., 
has tendered his resignation to the board 
of public service, preliminary to assum- 
ing the duties of county commissioner, 
to which office he was elected last No- 
\ember. 
OBITUARY 
Edgar Sanders, one of the oldest and 
best known horticulturists and horticul- 
tural writers in the country, died at his 
home in Chicago. September 29. He was 
born near East Grinstead, in the north- 
ern part of Sussex county, England, Oc- 
tober 10, 1827, and began as an appren- 
tice in a nursery at the age of 12. Here 
and in private estates, he received the 
thorough old country training that gave 
the foundation for his wide knowledge 
of gardening and horticulture. He came 
to America in 1853 and was first em- 
ployed in James Wilson’s nursery in 
Albany, N. Y. Subsequently he worked 
on the grounds of Luther Tucker, origi- 
nal publisher of Downing’s Horticultur- 
ist, and at that time of the Country 
Gentleman. For this paper Mr. Sanders 
began to write at once, and was on its 
staff for six years. Mr. Sanders was 
gardener for General John F. Rathbone, 
of Albany, for four years. In 1857 he 
came to Chicago, bought some land in 
Lake View and built a cottage with a 
50-foot greenhouse. When Mr. Sanders 
started as a Chicago florist there were 
three other florists in the city. In a 
few years he had erected several green- 
houses and was becoming a prominent 
shipper. In March, 1867, he opened the 
first flower store in Chicago. 
Mr. Sanders has been nearly all his 
life a contributor to the horticultural 
papers. He began at the age of 19. in 
writing for the London Gardeners’ 
Chronicle. He also was a correspondent 
from England to the American Garden- 
ers’ Chronicle, then published in New 
York. At Albany he wrote for the 
Country Gentleman and when he came 
to ^Chicago, he became attached to the 
staff of the Prairie Farmer. He also 
conducted for a short time a horticultu- 
ral department of a daily in Chicago, 
and for some years had charge of the 
department of Garden and Lawn in the 
Orange Judd Farmer. About 1893 he 
became the Chicago correspondent of 
the Florists’ Exchange, and he contin- 
ued to act in that capacity until July, 
1902. Aside from his work as a writer. 
Mr. Sanders has always taken an active 
interest in all horticultural matters and 
was a member of all the leading horti- 
cultural societies. 
John C. Hepler, aged 78 years, super- 
intendent of the Charles Evans Ceme- 
tery, Reading, Pa., for more than a 
quarter of a century, died of general de- 
bility, September 26. Mr. Hepler was 
born in Reading in 1829 and had lived 
there all his life. He was a tailor in 
his- early career, but went to farming 
near Reading in 1860, also conducting a 
successful greenhouse near his farm. In 
1880 he took charge of Charles E^■ans 
Cemetery. Under his painstaking and 
competent supervision, this burial ground 
was brought to its present excellent con- 
dition. He had been a member of the 
common council for three terms. He is 
survived by a widow, two sons, and one 
daughter. 
TRADE PUBLICATIONS, ETC. 
“Nature Menders,” is the title of a 
well-written little booklet issued by 
Fred'k W. Kelsey of New York to ad- 
vertise his nursery stock. 
The Austin-Western Co. of Cliicago 
have just issued a new catalogue of the 
“Austin Pioneer Dump W’agon’’ show- 
ing the workings and advantages of this 
wagon in large fulPpage illustrations. 
Trade Price List of Trees and Shruljs, 
seeds and bulbs, in English and German 
from Otto Katzenstein & Co., .\tlanta, 
Ga. 
“Rhododendrons,” illustrated book of 
information from Eastern Nurseries, 
Jamaica Plain, Mass., accompanied by 
the wholesale trade list of this firm. 
P. J. Berckmans Co., the Fruitl.ind 
