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PARK AND CEMETERY, 
Association of American Ceme- 
tery Superintendents. 
G. W. CREESY, "Harmony Grove,” 
Salem, Mass., President. 
ARTHUR W. HOBERT, "Lakewood,” 
Minneapolis, IMinn ., Vice-President, 
F. EURICH, Woodlawn, Toledo, O , 
Secretary and Treasurer. 
The Eleventh Annual Convention will 
be held at Cincinnati, O . 
^Publishers’ Department! 
Park Commissioners and Cemetery 
trustees are requested to send us copies of 
their reports. 
Photographs and descriptive sketches of 
nteresting features in parks and ceme- 
teries are solicited from our readers. 
Announcement. 
In pursuance of the aim which has 
hitherto characterized the conduct of this 
journal, which has been to present to its 
readers matter of undoubted reliability, 
and on technical subjects, Trom those 
eminently qualified to discuss them, the 
publisher is enabled to announce that 
among the contributors for the current 
year will be the following: 
L. H. Bailey, Professor of Horticulture, 
Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y. 
O. C. Simonds, Landscape Gardener, 
Superintendent Graceland Cemetery, Chi- 
cago. 
Fanny Copley Seavey, the well-known 
writer on horticultural subjects. 
James MacPherson, Landscape Gar- 
dener, Graduate of the Royal Gardens of 
Kew. 
Bellett Lawson, ^Landscape Gardener. 
Joseph Earnshaw of the firm of Earn- 
shaw & Punshon, Cincinnati, O. 
Charles Shinn, Landscape Gardener, 
Botanical Gardens, Berkeley, Cal. 
Joseph Meehan, Horticulturist, Editor 
Practical Farmer, Philadelphia, corre- 
spondent of many of the leading Agricul- 
tural and Horticultural publications. 
Warren H. Manning, Boston, Mass. 
In the leading note of “Cemetery 
Notes” of the February issue the Memo- 
rial Building of ex-Mayor T. M. Allyn was 
erroneously ascribed to Spring Grove 
Cemetery, Cincinnati, instead of Spring 
Grove Cemetery, Hartford, Conn. 
Mr. W.- H. H. Whiteford, superin- 
tendent, Darlington, Md., wishes to find 
the name of the maker of an iron grave 
marker, consisting of an upright rod with 
across piece at bottom, and with an oval 
frame at top fitted with glass to hold a pa- 
per containing thejinscription. He has a 
number of circulars of the well-known 
manufacturers, but none show what he re- 
quires. 
Wanted — Several copies of the Sep- 
tember, 1896, number of Park and 
•Cemetery. For clean copies publisher 
Park and Cemetery will extend the 
term of subscription, or pay cash for 
same. 
Mr. J. A. Pettigrew, late superintendent 
of City Parks, Brooklyn, N. Y., has been 
appointed superintendent of Franklin 
Park, Boston. 
Prospectus of the Children’s Industrial 
Farm, a Horticultural and Agricultural 
Training School for Dependent Children. 
To be established near St. Louis, Office in 
Union Trust Building, St. Louis. This is 
a project worthy of the attention of the 
humanitarian of whatever calling. The 
idea is to conduct the farm and at the 
same time train the children, and by busi- 
ness and expert management make the 
project as nearly self-supporting as can 
be. A prominent figure in the work is Mr. 
C. H. English, who is a well-known prac- 
tical horticulturist, and some of the promi- 
nent men of St. Louis are interesting 
themselves in this scheme. 
received. 
Transactions of the Illinois State Horti- 
cultural Society for the year 1896. Being 
the proceedings of the forty-first annual 
meeting held at Springfield, December 
29, 30 and 31, 1896. Also proceedings of 
the Norlhern, Central and Southern Dis- 
trict Societies and a number of county so- 
cieties for the year 1896. New series. 
Volume 30. Edited by the secretary, 
Henry M. Dunlap, Savoy, 111 . 
The Tree Planting and Fountain 'Soci- 
ety of Brooklyn, N. Y., 44 Court street, 
Brooklyn, N. Y. 
Bulletin No. 1, 3d Edition. 
Bulletin No. 2, 2d Edition. 
Annual Report for year ending Decem- 
ber, 1895, Second Edition. 
Circulars and other blanks. 
State of Vermont. Ninth Annual 
Report of the Vermont Experiment Sta- 
tion, 1895. 
Municipal Affairs. Issued at Quar- 
terly Intervals, Vol. 1, No. 1, March, 
1897. A Bibliography of Municipal Ad- 
ministration and City Conditions. By 
Robert C. Brooks, New York: Reform 
Club, Committee of Municipal Adminis- 
tration, 52 William street, New York 
City. Per annum $1.00. This is noticed 
in another column. 
First Report to the Governor of Minne- 
sota by the Park Commissioner of the 
State Park of the Dalles of the St Croix. 
j 895 — j 896. St. Paul, Minn. Besides the 
report of Mr. George H. Hazzard, Com- 
missioner, the pamphlet contains the pa- 
pers read at public gatherings in support 
of the park question, and which have been 
noticed in our previous issues. 
Sixth Annual Report of the Cemetery 
Commissioners in charge of Wildwood 
Cemetery of Winchester, Mass., Decem- 
ber 31, 1895. Also Seventh Annual Re- 
port, December 31, 1896. 
Sixty-fifth Annual Report, Mount Au- 
burn Cemetery, Boston, Mass., January 1, 
1897 - 
Eighth Annual Report of the Park Com- 
missioners of the City of Lynn, Mass., for 
the year ending December 19, 1896. Il- 
lustrated with half-tone engravings. 
Transactions of the Cremation Society 
of England. No. 8. For the year ending 
December 31, 1896. 
City of Cambridge, Mass. Annual Re- 
port of the Board of Cemetery Commis- 
sioners for the year ending November 30, 
1896. With half-tone illustrations. 
Report of Board of Park Commission- 
ers, Wilmington, Del., for the year 1896. 
Beautifully illustrated with half-tone en- 
gravings. 
CATALOGUES. 
No. 38, Frederick W. Kelsey, 145 
Broadway, New York, 1897. Descriptive 
Catalogue of Select Deciduous and Ever- 
green Trees, Shrubs, Vines, Roses and 
Hardy Plants. Address after May 1, 150 
Broadway. 
Descriptions and Prices of one hundred 
Select Hardy Perennial Plants of the. 
Rocky Mountains. Hardy Cacti — Alpine 
Nurseries, D. M. Andrews, Proprietor, 
Boulder, Colo. 1897. A Special Leaflet 
will also soon be ready for distribution. 
Catalogue No. 1. Fruitland Nurseries, 
Augusta, Ga. P. J. Berckmans, Proprie- 
tor. Fruit and Ornamental Trees, Roses, 
etc. — Catalogue No. 2. Greenhouse and 
Bedding Plants. Spring of 1897. 
Water Lilies, Aquatics, Greenhouse 
Plants, Ornamental Shrubbery. Lily Park 
Gardens and Greenhouses. George B. 
Moulder, Proprietor, Smith’s Grove, Ky. 
Old Colony Nurseries, Plymouth, Mass. 
Price List of Hardy Ornamentals, Shrubs, 
Evergreens, Roses, Herbaceous Plants, 
etc. 
Leaflet of Chipman Bros., Sandwich, 
Cape Cod, Mass., giving prices of the Cape 
Cod Pink Pond Lily. 
The Spring, 1897, Wholesale Trade 
List of the Nurseries of Thomas Meehan 
& Sons, Germantown, Philadelphia, con- 
tains an immense assortment of hardy or- 
namental trees, shrubs, vines, evergreens 
and herbaceous plants. This, with their 
descriptive catalogue, is of special interest 
to those interested in parks and ceme- 
teries. The descriptive catalogue is a work 
of reference in which no expense has been 
spared to make it complete. For years 
the firm has made a specialty of catering 
to the park and cemetery trade with mu- 
tual satisfaction. 
The Rider Engine Company and the 
De Lamater Iron Works, both of New 
York City, the well-known manufacturers 
of the Hot Air Pumping Engine for sup- 
plying water, have consolidated under the 
name of the Rider-Ericsson Engine Com- 
pany. This will tend to lower prices. 
The firm is thoroughly reliable, and our 
readers will receive every consideration in 
negotiating business. After April 1, 1897, 
the office of the consolidated firms will be 
at 22 Cortlandt street, and until that time 
all communications should be addressed to 
the Rider-Ericsson Engine Company, 467 
West Broadway, New York City. 
The “Coiled Spring Hustler” is an in- 
teresting advertising sheet, published 
monthly by the Page Woven Wire Fence 
Company, Adrian, Mich. It will be sent 
to any of our readers interested in wire 
fencing upon application. 
