PARK AND CEMETERY . 
V 
ESTABLISHED 1890 
Devoted to the Improvement of Parks, 
Cemeteries, Public and Private Grounds 
Published on the 15th of the Month by 
R. J. HAIGHT 
324 Dearborn St., Chicago 
EDITORS 
John W. Weston O. H. Sample 
Subscription, $1.00 a Year. \ 
tendent of Lake View Cemetery- 
retiring from the latter office about 
five years ago. Mr. Mason became 
a member of the Association of 
x^merican Cemetery Superintendents 
in 1889 the second year of the organ- 
ization. 
OBITUARY 
An interesting and valuable citizen 
has been removed from this life in 
the person of John Thorpe, familiarly 
known in World’s Fair time as “Uncle 
John,” and whose career of useful- 
ness in horticulture and floriculture is 
a history of achievement and con- 
stant intelligent effort. Born at Key- 
ham, Leicestershire, England, on April 
3, 1838, he passed his youth and early 
manhood among the flowers and in 
several important positions, until in 
1872 he came to America, with its 
broader field, and here he has been 
among the very foremost in plant cul- 
ture and the production of new varie- 
ties. He was practically the father 
of the Society of American Florist,s, 
A profound knowledge of plant physi- 
ology made him a very successful 
man in his line of work, and an ex- 
ample of that steadfast, kindly man- 
hood which wields such great influ- 
ence upon those in touch with it. 
He died at his home in Chicago on 
July 15. In his early years he was 
honored by being made a Fellow of 
the Royal Horticultural Society of 
London, but his innate simplicity for- 
bade his display of the distinction. 
Edward Pachet, superintendent of 
interment at Mt. Auburn Cemetery, 
Cambridge, Mass., was taken sud- 
denly ill on the evening of July 16 
while in a State street restaurant and 
died in the ambulance on his way to 
the Relief Hospital. His death was 
pronounced to be due to natural 
causes, heart disease and indigestion, 
Mr. Pachet was 68 years old and is 
survived by four sons and a daughter. 
He came from England in 1875 and 
has been connected with the cemetery 
since that time. 
For 
Results in Cemetery or 
Park Work 
write 
H. R. COTTA 
Landscape Architect and Engineer 
Rockford, 111. 
Booklet, ''The Landscape Beautiful," mailed free 
Is Your Cemetery Satisfactory? 
Are you caring for it economically? 
Is green grass the leading feature 
with shrubbery to give a proper set- 
ting to the monuments? IF NOT, 
then you need Howard EvartsW eed. 
Landscape Architect, 1715 Railway 
Exchange, Chicago, to modernize 
things for you. 
“The lot owners won’t let us” you 
say? If so, you have gone at it in 
the wrong way. You need Weed to 
give his stereopticon lecture — “More 
Beautiful Cemeteries” — in your 
town to point out the right way. By 
means of the stereopticon pictures the 
difference between the good and bad, 
between the graveyard and the mod- 
ern park cemetery is vividly shown. 
You are wasting your efforts in 
caring for the cemetery under present 
conditions. Get out of the rut. Wake 
up, even if you do have charge of 
dead people. 
Write Weed today and he vjillsend you 
some mteresiing literature. 
FRANK H. NUTTER 
Landscape Architect and Engineer 
710 Sykes Bldg., MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. 
Advices, Sketches, Desig-nsor full Work- 
ing* Plans for Cemeteries, Parks, and Pub- 
lic or Home Grounds. Surveys made if re- 
quired. Correspondence solicited. City 
Park Engineer. 
F^lantlng Contraots 
Weare among the largest gro-wers of ornamental 
trees, shrubs and plants In America. Hardy va- 
rieties a specialty. We employ a competent land- 
scape gardener for the service of our large patron- 
age. Cemetery and Fark Organizations are invited 
to correspond relative to either Planning or Plant- 
ing, or both. We will be pleased to make estimates 
on any proposition. 
THE JEWELL NURSERY COMPANY 
Est. 1868 Lake City. Minn. 1200 Acres 
Accurate Records of Interments 
are indispensable to a well-ordered ceme- 
tery. Specimen pages of record books, in- 
dexes of interments and lot diagram books 
sent on .application. 
E. J. HAIGHT, 324 Dearborn Street, Chicago. 
"ParK. and Cemetery The best Medium 
— — for keeping before 
Park and Cemetery Superintendents. 
SID. J. HARE 
landscape architect 
KANSAS CITY, MO. 
3224 Campbell Street 
and Gates 
for Parks and 
Cemeteiies 
OVER 200 DESIGNS 
Also Vases, Settees. Fountains, Etc. 
Agents Wanted — Send for catalogs and particulars. 
THt ST I WART IRCN WORKS CO. 
1748 ( OVlNUTUiS bTKEET - CUsCl^NATl, OHIO 
LaigFtt iiakeis 1 1 Jj on Fence in ihc W orld.^ ■ 
Baker’s Waterproof Grave 
Linings and Earth Covers 
furnish the neatest and best decora- 
tion for a grave. Write for samples 
of goods. 
BakerBros. & Co. Ti'ffr, 0. 
