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ably. Landscape gardeners can do 
much good in such lectures. 
Mr. Ben. Hammond, of Fishkill, N. 
Y., who has succeeded the late Mr. 
E. V. Hallock as chairman .of the S. 
A. F. & O. H. School Garden Com- 
mittee, is president of the Board of 
Education of Fishkill, and is warmly 
interested in the school garden ques- 
tion. This idea is now being looked 
upon as a possible strong factor in 
the Society of American Florists, on 
account of its widely extended mem- 
bership and close association with the 
subject, should be expected to do a 
great work in fostering and develop- 
ing a rapid appreciation of its value 
in all sections of the country, and it is 
to the interest of the association to 
do so. 
OBITUARY 
Frederick William Higgins, super- 
intendent of Woodmere cemetery, De- 
troit, since its establishment in 1868 
died of pleuro-pneumonia, February 
11, after an illness of a little over a 
week. Mr. Higgins w'as born in Lit- 
tle York, St. Lawrence county, N. Y., 
June 21, 1833, coming to Michigan 45 
years ago. Woodmere cemetery was 
established in 1867 and Mr. Hig- 
gins was made .superintendent the fol- 
lowing year and had held that position 
since. Several years before his death 
the late Rufus Gillett, a member of 
the board of directors,' moved that Mr. 
Higgins’ be made superintendent for 
life, with permission to take as many 
yearly, monthly, weekly or daily va- 
cations as he' saw fit. 
He was one of the organizers of 
the Association of American Cemetery 
Superintendents, of which he was the 
first vice-president. He was a great 
reader and owned one of the finest 
libraries in Detroit. Since taking charge 
of Woodmere cemetery Mr. Higgins 
has seen the bodies of betw'een 46,000 
and 47,000 persons buried in that ceme- 
tery, which has the reputation of being 
one of the finest cities of the dead in the 
United States. He believed in men, and 
was never known to speak ill of any- 
one. 
He was a member of Zion lodge of 
Masons and of Monroe Chapter and 
of the Delray lodge of Odd Fellows. 
One child, Mrs. Matthew H. Winters, 
wife of the assistant superintendent 
of the cemetery, survives him, his son 
having died eight years ago, and his 
w’ife six years ago. He is survived by 
seven grandchildren and five great 
grandchildren. Religious services were 
conducted at the home by Rev. W. H. 
Warren, of the Fort Street Congression- 
al church, after which the body was 
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Landscape Architect and Engineer 
Rockford, 111. 
SID. J. HARE 
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Landscape Architects 
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