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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
W. Kelsey Nursery Company, 150 
Broadway, New York, with Fredk W. 
Kelsey as president. Mr. Kelsey has 
had an experience of over thirty years 
in the nursery business and has made 
a specialty of furnishing parks, ceme- 
teries and large estates with trees, 
shrubs, hardy plants, etc. 
Mr. A. Cole Blanton, of Richmond, 
Va., has been engaged by the Park 
Board of Oklahoma City, Okla., as ex- 
pert hydraulic engineer to make sound- 
ings and plans for reinforced concrete 
bridges, dams and spillways. One dam 
will be 22 feet high and 1,200 feet long, 
the other 44 feet high and 1,100 feet 
long, each 90 feet wide on crest. 
OBITUARY 
George W. Ostertag, superintendent 
of parks, St. Louis, Mo., and at one 
time connected with the old firm of S. 
Mount & Co., wholesale florists, died on 
December 20, following a lingering ill- 
ness. He was buried in Bellefontaine 
Cemetery, the employes of the park de- 
partment acting as pallbearers, and the 
floral tributes were profuse. 
TRADE PUBLICATIONS 
RECEIVED 
Laurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, 
sends a neat little calendar bearing a 
colored reproduction of the painting, 
“By Summer Seas,” a charming water 
scene. 
Tree catalog for 1910 from Griffing 
Bros. Co., nurserymen, Jacksonville, Fla. 
Wholesale price list of the dahlia and 
gladiolus gardens of J. L. Moore, North- 
ampton, Mass, 
Pocket catalog of seeds, plants and 
bulbs from Henry A. Dreer, 714 Chest- 
nut street, Philadelphia. 
Conard & Jones Co., West Grove, 
Pa., new “Floral Guide” for 1910. 
INDIANA’S NEW LAW 
{Continued f rom page 206) 
execute leases for lots therein, or licenses 
to bury thereon; to employ all necesary 
superintendents, agents, and workmen, and 
to discharge them at its pleasure; to collect 
and receive all moneys due or owing for 
leases, care of lots, digging graves and all 
other sources of revenue; and to expend 
the same for the preservation, care and Im- 
provement of such cemetery, whenever nec- 
essary, said board may purchase other lands 
adjacent, or conveniently near, to such cem- 
etery for additions thereto, to be used, held 
and managed in the same manner as the 
principal cemetery. Such board shall make 
annually, on the first day of January, to the 
Common Council of such city a statement 
of the financial condition of said associa- 
tion and of the business done by It during 
the previous year. The treasurer of such 
board shall give bond in an amount and to 
the approval of such board of trustees. The 
Common Council of such city is hereby em- 
powered to make an appropriation to such 
association to pay any deficiency in the 
revenue of such association or to enable 
such association to purchase adjacent or ad- 
ditional lands. 
Bequests. 
Sec. 4. Such board shall have the power 
Park Superintendents now realize that only the strongest and light- 
est houses are worth putting up — that’s why we have been putting up 
houses for parks all over the country, and have more on the way. 
Look up the L & B construction before you decide on any house. 
It will save money all around. 
Send for Our Greenhouse Catalog. 
Lord and Burnham Company, irvington, New 
NEW YORK 
St. James Bldg. 
BOSTON 
Tremont Bldg. 
PHIUDELPHIA 
Heed Bnilding 
CHICAGO 
The Rookery 
JUST ERECTED IN BELLE ISLAND PARK, DETROIT 
Made 3 inch, 3^ inch, 4 inch and 5 inch diameters, 8, 10 and 12 inch lengths, andallkindsoftop marks. 
Nearly white in color and practically everlasting. Made under I __ P Haoco Oolr Pavlr III 
patents No. 680,432 and 734,864. For circulars and prices. Address V/oli 1 ariv,lll. 
Cemeteries West of Rockies, Address, Pasadena. Calif. 
Trade /V\arl< — Red Tag 
Fruit and Ornamental, Shrulbs, 
Roses» Bullbs and 
Send for Descriptive Priced Catalog FREE. 
600 Acres. 13 Greenhouses. Established 1852. 
RHOEINIX INURSERY CO. 
Dept. X. 
Bloomington. 111. 
