PARK AMD CEMETERY 
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Sites and Preparation of Soils.” M. A. 
Blake, instructor in horticulture at the 
Massachusetts Agricultural College, 
gave a practical talk on the ‘‘Cultiva- 
tion and Care of Soil, and the Care and 
Use of Tools.” Herbert D. Hemenway, 
director of school gardens in Hartford, 
Conn., talked on “School Gardens.” 
The Woodland Farm Camp School, 
Westchester, Conn., announces that ar- 
rangements have been made with Mr. 
H. D. Hemenway, director of the 
School of Horticulture, Hartford, Conn., 
to conduct a course in nature study for 
teachers at the camp school, which 
opens June 30. Mr. Hemenway will 
particularly emphasize school garden 
work, owing to the rapidly increasing 
demand for teachers along this line. 
This course will cover two terms of 
four weeks each. Students may enter 
for either or both terms. Detailed in- 
formation can be had from Miss Grace 
Robarts, secretary, Westchester, Conn. 
The American Pomological Society is 
sending out a leaflet endeavoring to 
arouse interest in the plan for a convo- 
cation of horticultural societies at the 
exposition to be held in Jamestown, Va., 
in 1907. Their plan is to devote the 
first ten days to the fruit industry and 
its interests, the next week to the vari- 
ous societies of florists, the next week 
to the nursery seed and commission as- 
sociations, and the last week to soci- 
eties devoted to civic improvement. 
The Missouri State Horticultural So- 
ciety will hold its summer meeting at 
Moberly, Mo., June 12, 13 and 14. An 
interesting program of horticultural top- 
ics has been prepared. 
The Massachusetts Forestry Associa- 
tion has made arrangements to furnish 
speakers for groups or organizations 
that desire to have lectures on tree and 
forest problems. Woodland and Road- 
side, Boston, Mass., the official bulletin 
of the asociation, will henceforth be 
published monthly and the subscription 
price advanced to 50 cents a year. 
Trade Publications. 
Westminster Cemetery, Philadelphia, 
is sending out a very attractively illus- 
trated little booklet showing a number 
of fine views in the cemetery. It bears 
the title: Where Nature’s Balmy Smile 
Pervadeth All. 
Four handsomely illustrated and 
printed nursery catalogues executed by 
the J. Horace McFarland Press, Har- 
I risburg, Pa., are the following: Trees 
1 for Long Island, Isaac Flicks & Son, 
Westbury Station, N. Y. ; Beautify 
. Your Yard, Conard & Jones, West 
' Grove, Pa. ; Kelsey’s Hardy American 
’ Plants. Harlan P. Kelsey, Salem, Mass. ; 
Essentially 
Decorative 
are the U-Bar green- 
houses. No other 
houses have the 
curved eave lines, the 
lightness, yet dura- 
bility of construction 
U-Bar Greenhouses 
Are the Best Greenhouses 
Built 
and we are the only 
ones building U-Bar 
greenhouses, or who 
can build them. 
Send for cuts 
Pierson U-Bar Company 
Designers and Builders 
U=Bar Greenhouses 
Metropolitan Bldg. 4th Ave. and 23d St. 
NfcW YORK 
T awfl FptirP cheaper than wood. For lawns, 
W Xl r CllvC churches, cemeteries ; also heavy 
steel picketfence direct to'consumer. Catalogue free 
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Popularity proven by repeated orders. 
Plenty of A-1 references and recom- 
mendations. 
Only metallic Park BasUet that is lig'ht 
and easy to hardle ; still rot subject to 
breakage in handling about the grounds. 
Has deep corrugated in.side can, remov- 
able for emptying contents. 
Park, Cemetery and Improvement Boards 
send your address and receive description, 
etc., in detail. 
THE STEEL BASKET CO. 
CEDAR RAPIDS, IOWA 
Always mention PARK AND 
CEMETERY when you write to 
advertisers. 
CLIPPER 
H4ND and PONY LAWN MOWERS 
will cut short grass, tall grass and weeds. 
We also manufacture Marine Gasoline 
Engines, 2 to 8 H.P. Please send draft, money 
order or registered letter. 
