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P A R K A X D C EM ET E R 4 \ 
Barrington, Alass. ; Air. Luke Vincent 
Lockwood, Riverside, Conn. 
COMPETITIONS AND EXHIBI- 
TIONS. — Two important exhibitions of the 
year w'ere those of the Boston Society of 
Landscape Architects, the Harvard Uni- 
\ersity students, and students at the Mas- 
sachusetts Agricultural College, at the Bos- 
ton City Cluh, during January; and the 
Joint Exhibition of Architecture, Land- 
scape Architecture, and Allied Arts, in 
Boston, during November. A collaborative 
competition hy an architect, a landscape 
architect, and a sculptor, was held in con- 
nection with the latter. Another competi- 
tion of interest was that of the National 
Americanization Committee for housing 
immigrants. 
BIBLIOGRAPHA’. — The principal pub- 
lications of the year were : 
THE ARCHITECTURE and Landscape 
Gardening of the Exposition. (Paul El- 
der and Co.) 
BAILEY, LIBERTY H., ed. Standard 
Cyclopedia of Horticulture, vol. I\’. 
(The Alacmillan Co.) 
COX, LAL'RIE D.WIDSON. A Street 
Tree System for New York City, Bor- 
ough of Alanhattan. ( New York State 
College of Foresty at Syracuse Lhiiver- 
sity. ) 
GLIMPSES of our National Parks. (Lb 
S. Dept, of the Interior.) 
HAMBLIN, STEPHEN F. Book of Gar- 
den Plans. ( Doubleday, Page & Co.) 
‘‘The Book of the Peony,’’ hy Airs. Ed- 
ward Harding, appears in response to the 
large demand for authoritative informa- 
tion — historical, descriptive, practical — on 
this foremost flower. The peony has grown 
in popular favor in recent years, and today 
boasts two national organizations devoted 
KELLAWAA , H. J.' How to Lay Out 
Suburban Home Grounds. 2d ed. (John 
Wiley and Sons, Inc.) 
KING, MRS. FRANCIS. The Well-Con- 
sidered Garden. (Charles Scribner’s 
Sons.) 
LEWIS, NELSON P. The Planning of the 
Modern City. (John Wiley and Sons, 
Inc.) 
LOWELL, GUY. Smaller Italian Villas 
and Farmhouses. ( New AMrk Architec- 
tural Book Publishing Co.) 
LYLE, WILLEXAI THOAIAS. Parks and 
Park Engineering. (John Wiley and 
Sons, Inc.) 
AIcFARLAND, J. HOR.A.CE. My Grow- 
ing Garden. (The Alacmillan Co.) 
AIILLER, WILHELM. The Prairie Spirit 
in Landscape Gardening. (Illinois Agri- 
cultural Experiment Station, LYbana, 
111 .) 
NOLEN, JOHN, ed. City Planning. (D. 
Appleton and Co. ) 
NOLEN, JOHN. Better City Planning for 
Bridgeport. Final Report to the City Plan 
Commission. 
. Alore Houses for Bridgeport. Re- 
port to the Chamber of Commerce, 
Bridgeport, Conn. 
ROBINSON, CHARLES MULFORD. 
City Planning with Special Reference to 
the Planning of Streets and Lots. 2nd 
ed. (G. Putnam’s Sons.) 
SHELTON, LOUISE. Beautiful Garden.^ 
in America. (Chas. Scribner’s Sons.) 
to its cult. Nothing more beautiful can be 
found in the field of floriculture than this 
royal bloomr Mrs. Edward Harding, the 
author, is a practical gardener, and her 
peony garden ranks among the finest in 
this country. Among the noted private 
collections of peonies in Amer'cr., are 
tb.ose of T. .A. Havemeyer, Air. James 
Boyd, Mr. F. B. Van Vorst, Air. E. K. 
Schultz and Mrs. Edward Harding. The 
illustrations for this first book ever de- 
voted to the peony alone, are many of 
them taken in these gardens, and speak 
more forcibly than words in confirmation 
of the author’s claims for the peony “as 
the most superb and commanding flower 
which the garden holds. B_v reason of its 
sheer wealth of splendor and majesty of 
presence it is now entitled to be called 
Queen of the Flowers.’’ A full color plate 
in Mrs. Harding’s hook shows a rare 
Chinese vase of the K’ang hai period which 
is decorated with exquisite peonies. The 
first printed picture of the peony — pub- 
lished in 1484 — is reproduced. In 1(529,. 
John Parkinson described six varieties of 
the flow’er, in his quaint book on plants. 
“Paradisi in Sole, Paradisus Terrestris, or 
a Choice Garden of All Sorts of Rarest 
Flowers.’’ “No flower that I know so 
faire, great and double,’’ he exclaimed of 
the peony of his day. The preparation of 
garden soil, selection of colors and va- 
rieties for desired effects, the characteris- 
tics of each variety, when and where to 
plant, cultivation, propagation, how to pur- 
chase, extending the period of bloom, are 
among the topics treated with fullness and 
exactness. The magnificent tree peony is 
given special attention. 
The volume leaves nothing to be de- 
sired in make-up, binding and illustration. 
It might well be classed among art pub- 
lications, despite its practical nature, and 
its history of the peony includes much that 
is suggestive and fascinating. The book 
has 44 illustrations in color and black and 
white, and is published by J. B. Lippincott. 
Company of Philadelphia. It sells for 
$().00, net. 
A New Peony Bonk 
Cemetery Record and Report Forms 
The illustrations on the opposite page 
show some forms for cemetery records 
and reports used by Forest Park Cemetery, 
Fort Smith, Ark. 
ore of the most complete forms that has 
come to our notice. This form enables 
the superintendent to keep an accurate 
record of all lot sales, interments and 
formerly used. This sheet gives at a 
glance all information as to lot owners, 
their residence, section, lot number, date 
of purchase, terms of purchase, monthly- 
STATE ME NT— Forest Park Cemetery association 
NAME 
RECEIVED 
HEADINGS OF MONTHLY STATEMENT PAGE; FULL SIZE OF PAGE, 121/2 INCHES SQUARE. 
They were devised by H. E. Turner, su- 
perintendent of this cemetery, and are care- 
fully studied to cover the needs of his 
grounds. 
The monthly report form illustrated is 
monument w-ork, also of all monthly col- 
lections and expenditure. 
Another illustration shows Air. Turner’s 
new interment record form which has en- 
abled him to dispense with two other books 
payments, transfer form and a complete 
interment record with a diagram of each 
individual lot. These forms are not copy- 
righted and other cemetery officials who 
can make use of them are at liberty to do so. 
