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PUBLICATIONS REVIEWED 
Two books on new developments in 
concrete work have recently been issued 
by the Norman W. Henley Publishing 
Co. “Ornamental Concrete Without 
Moulds,” by A. A. Houghton, is claimed 
to be the first exposition of the formerly 
secret process of making concrete with- 
out molds. This work explains a simple 
method whereby the concrete worker is 
enabled, by employing wood and metal 
templates of different designs, to mold 
or model in concrete any cornice, archi- 
volt, column, pedestal, base, cap, urn or 
pier in a monolithic form — right upon 
the job. Detailed instructions are given 
for moulding any style of concrete mon- 
ument as well as placing inscriptions 
on it, how to mold several styles of 
urns and lawn vases with pedestals, 
ornamental hitching posts and grave 
markers, fountains, caps, garden chairs 
and benches, balusters, lavatories, jar- 
dinieres, flower pots and many other 
forms of ornamental concrete. The 
book sells for $3 and may be ordered 
from Park and Cemetery. 
“Concrete from Sand Molds” is an- 
other work by the same author, which 
treats of the use of sand as a material 
for molds in many styles and sizes. 
Among the contents are chapters on : 
Ornamental designs from simple patterns 
— How to make a collapsible pattern. — • 
Facing molds with crushed granite, 
marble flour or any other material to 
give a beautiful appearance to the 
finished work — The proper method of 
mixing and placing the concrete in sand 
molds — Concrete mixture for ornamental 
rods, woven wire or other styles of rein- 
forcing materials. Price $3.00 ; may be 
ordered from Park and Cemetery. 
The fifteenth annual report of the 
Forestry Commissioner of Minnesota, 
for 1909, contains a detailed illustrated 
account of forestry work in that state 
and a valuable summary of methods in 
the leading European countries where 
forestry has been scientifically developed. 
It is a valuable compendium of forestry 
information, comprising 154 pages and 
many illustrations ; issued by C. C. An- 
drews, Forestry Commissioner, St. Paul. 
Minn. 
From the U. S. Department of Agri- 
culture : “Experiment Station Work,” 
Farmers’ Bulletin 412 ; “Protection ot 
Forests from Fire,” by Henry S. Graves, 
Forester, issued as Bulletin 82 of the 
Forest Service ; “Agricultural and Bo- 
tanical Explorations in Palestine,” by 
Aaron Johnson, Bulletin 180, of the 
Bureau of Plant Industry. 
Glenwood Cemetery, Picton, Ont. ; Il- 
lustrated booklet, giving miscellaneous 
information ; J. W. Conger is president 
of the Association, W. G. Sexsmith, 
Secretar}^, and Miss Cora Dorland. Su- 
perintendent. 
Ridgelawn Cemeter}^, Buffalo, issues 
an illustrated booklet of the grounds 
that contain a number of striking pic- 
tures contrasting the new and the old 
style cemetery in addition to a valuable 
and well-wn'itten exposition of modern 
methods in cemetery management. Fred 
A. Busch is President of the Association, 
and Edward W. Werick Secretarv and 
work — Reinforcing work with metal Manager. 
MORE OR LESS PERSONAL 
Mr. Charles N. Lowrie, landscape 
architect, of New York, has been en- 
gaged by the cemetery committee of 
Willimantic, Conn., to lay out the 
entrances and drives and provide for 
the necessary ornamental landscape 
work. 
Mr. George D. Ford, superintendent 
of Cambridge Cemetery, Boston, 
Mass., has resigned, and will go into 
business with his brothr at Malden, 
Mass. He became superintendent of 
Cambridge Cemetery in 1903. 
Mr. R. A. Leavitt, superintendent 
of Wyoming Cemetery, Melrose, 
Mass., has sent us two very attrac- 
tive postal card photographic views 
taken in that cemetery. The planting 
effects about the pond and in the 
rear of the office building are most 
pleasing, and the pictures suggest that 
the systematic distribution of such 
views as an advertisement of a ceme- 
tery’s beauties deserves considera- 
tion. 
Miss A. M. Miller, Assistant Secre- 
tary of Crown Hill Cemetery, Denver. 
Colo., returned in August from an ex- 
tended eastern trip in which she com- 
bined pleasure with interesting field 
study of cemeteries in the cities she 
visited. She saw the leading cemeteries 
in New York City, Buffalo, Cleveland, 
Chicago and other cities, and gathered 
much information that will be of value 
to her in her work. Crown Hill was or- 
ganized about two years ago, and is 
being developed on the modern lines 
of the lawn plan cemetery. Its officers 
are enthusiastic and have the ambition 
to make it the finest cemetery in Colo- 
rado. It contains 390 acres. C. L. Mor- 
ris is Secretary and V. J. Davis, a former 
park superintendent of Denver, is super- 
intendent. 
Mr. F. E. Pease, landscape gardener 
of Des Moines, la., has been engaged 
by the city of Ottumwa to prepare 
plans for a 37-acre park, to be known 
as “Foster Park,” in honor of the 
donor, Mr. T. D. Foster. Mr. Pease 
is also planning a 100-acre residential 
subdivision at Mason City. 
Samuel Parsons, landscape archi- 
tect, New York City, has prepared a 
report on the improvement of a 1,400- 
acre park tract for San Diego, Cal. 
John C. Olmsted, landscape archi- 
tect, of Boston, is preparing a gen- 
eral parking scheme for Dayton, O. 
He has also submitted plans for the 
parking of Magnolia Bluff, Seattle, 
Wash., besides other improvements in 
that city. 
Mr. John Nolen, landscape archi- 
tect, of Cambridge, - Mass., has been 
engaged to prepare a comprehensive 
City Plan for Scranton, Pa., and also 
a General Plan for a Park and Pleas- 
ure Ground System for the Chatta- 
nooga Park Commission, Chatta- 
nooga, Tenn. The supervision of the 
work of street arrangements, park 
and playground reservations and the 
platting of private property for a 
tract of about 3,000 acres, to be in- 
cluded within the city limits of Mil- 
waukee, Wis., has also been placed 
in his hands. 
In the annual report of the State 
Board of Horticulture of ^Missouri, 
Mr. L. P. Jensen, landscape architect, 
in describing how a good lawn should 
be made, says this: “A lawn which 
will not stand the playing of chil- 
dren and the walking on of many per- 
sons, I consider a failure.” blr. Jen- 
sen has been working for some time 
on a “Bibliography on Landscape 
Gardening and Kindred Subjects,” and 
has catalogued some 800 publications on 
his card lists. 
OBITUARY 
William Allen, for manj^ years su- 
perintendent of IMaury Cemetery, died 
at his home in Moody, near Midlo- 
thian, Chesterfield County, Va,, on 
July 32, aged 54 years. A skilled stone 
carver, the work was entrusted to him 
of replacing the hands ruthlessly 
broken off the statue of Henry Clay 
at Richmond, and he also repaired 
the damaged face of the Houdon bust 
of Lafayette in the Capitol at Rich- 
mond. He is survived by wife and 
children. 
