PAIVK AND CEMETERY 
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Barron; illust. ; G. M. 1:225-7, June 
’ 05 - 
Seven Weeks of Lilac Bloom, by John 
Dunbar; illust.; G. M. 1:232-4, June 
’ 05 - 
Shrubs, Art of Pruning; illust.; Coun- 
try Calendar i :53, May ’05. 
Soils, Relation of, to Vegetation; Bot. 
Gaz. 22-41, Jan. ’05. 
Woods and Meadows in May ; Country 
Calendar i :32-5, May ’05. 
Reports, etc., Received. 
“The School Garden,” by L. C. Cor- 
bett, Horticulturist, Bureau of Plant 
Industry, has been issued by the U. S. 
Department of Agriculture as Farmers’ 
Bulletin No. 218. It is a valuable 
manual for school garden workers, and 
should be in the hands of all who are 
identified with school gardens. Plans 
for flower and vegetable gardens are 
given, many diagrams illstrating the 
operations involved, and plans for im- 
proving and planting school grounds. 
Some of the subjects discussed are: 
Types of plants for the garden; rota- 
tion of crops ; studies of soil ; studies 
of plants ; studies of roots, stems, 
leaves and cuttings ; studies of grafts ; 
plants suitable for window boxes ; the 
decoration of school grounds ; cultural 
directions for trees and shrubs ; trees 
and shrubs suitable for school grounds. 
The Department of Children’s Gar- 
dens of the American Civic As.socia- 
tion through Vice-president Dick J. 
Crosby, of Washington, D. C., in charge 
of that department has issued Leaflet 
No. I, giving a prospectus of the de- 
partment and outlining its work, which 
is to consist chiefly in furnishing in- 
formation relative to school gardens, 
and conducting an active propaganda 
for the extension of the school garden 
movement. 
The sixteenth annual report of the 
Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, 
Mo., shows total disbursements of 
$183,114.58, of which $47,652 was for 
the garden ; $95,063 for property ex- 
penses, $2,861 for restoring plants and 
plant house damaged by the storm. 
During the year 3,050 species and varie- 
ties were added to the garden, bring- 
ing the total up to 14,207. Among the 
important gifts were the following : 
6,970 cacti, orchids, etc., from the Mexi- 
can National Exposition Commission, 
which added 85 new species or varieties 
to the collection ; 4,810 fiber-yielding 
plants and young forest trees from the 
U. S. Department of Agriculture; 161 
tropical plants from the Cuban World’s 
Fair Commission, 38 from the Chinese 
officials, and 17 from the Brazilian Com- 
mission. The total number of visitors 
to the garden during 1904 was 316,747. 
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Some of the most important Ornamental Iron 
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Graxye’ Vaults 
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