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National Convention of Cemetery Superintendents. 
For the first time in its history the Association of 
American Cemetery Superintendents will meet in con- 
vention at the National Capital, September 19-22. 
Headquarters will be at the Hotel Raleigh, 12th and 
Pennsylvania Ave. N. W. 
This is to be the nineteenth annual igathering of this 
organization, and the many attractions of Washington, 
in addition to the interesting subjects chosen for dis- 
cussion at the business meetings, ,will undoubtedly re- 
sult in bringing together many of the old members and 
a host of new ones from the Atlantic Coast cities not 
already represented in the organization. This, too, is 
the first convention held by the association without 
having been formally invited by the local cemeteries, 
and it is thought will mark a new epoch in the matter 
of selecting places of meeting in the future. The as- 
sociation is old enough and strong enough to go 
whithersoever it chooses without embarrassment to it- 
self or to the cemeteries in 
the city or town selected, 
and it can best advance the 
cause of better cemeteries 
by meeting where there is 
greatest need for such re- 
forms. A national meeting 
of this kind invariably re- 
sults in stimulating interest 
in modern cemetery meth- 
ods among the officials of 
cemeteries, both in the city 
where the convention is 
held, and in adjacent towns. 
The influence of this or- 
ganization has been far- 
reaching and it is deserving 
of all encouragement from, 
cemeterv managers evcrv- 
where. The foremost cem- 
eteries in the United States and Canada have always 
been represented in its membership, which has also in- 
cluded many men from the smaller cities and towns, 
who were not slow to realize the value of participating 
in the discussions and learning practical lessons in 
cemetery methods by visiting such places in company 
with fellow workers. 
The visitors will find the trees of Washington of 
especial interest, it having been authoritatively stated 
that there are more varieties of trees and shrubs in 
the city parks and highways than are found in any 
other community approximately ten miles square in 
the world, barring arboretums. The peculiar geo- 
graphical location of Washington is responsible, in a 
measure, for the large variety of trees growing there, 
says The Star, of that city. The District of Columbia 
is situated almost on the dividing line between the 
north and south and becomes a meeting place for the 
elements, where the cold 
of the north and the heat 
of the south join in battle 
for supremacy. IM a n y 
trees which are essential- 
ly of northern growth 
and will not thrive south 
of Washington are suc- 
cessfully cultivated, while 
many southern varieties 
grow vigorously in the Dis- 
tric:. 
There are said to be 90,- 
000 trees growing along the 
capital’s thoroughfares, and 
in the streets and parks 
of the cit_\- there are not 
less than 150 varieties of 
trees and more than too va- 
rieties of shrubs. 
VIEW IN THE BOTANIC GARDEN, WASHINGTON, D. C. 
