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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, Minn., Vice-President, 
F. EURICH, Woodlawn, Toledo, O , 
Secretary and Treasurer. 
The Eleventh Annual Convention will 
be held at Cincinnati, 0 .,Sepf. 14,15, 
16 and 17. 
^Publishers’ Department^ 
Park Commissioners and Cemetery 
trustees are requested to send us copies of 
their reports. 
Photographs and descriptive sketches of 
interesting features in parks and ceme- 
teries are solicited from our readers. 
Obituary: 
Charles Eliot. 
A noble character, allied to a noble pro- 
fession, was called to a higher resting place 
when Charles Eliot, son of President Eliot 
of Harvard University, and member of the 
firm of Olmsted, Olmsted & Eliot, land- 
scape architects, died at his home in Brook- 
line, Boston, on March 25th, in the thirty- 
eighth year of his age. Called away far 
too soon according to our human intelli- 
gence, he, however, left a record in work 
accomplished and work begun, which 
stamp him as a remarkable man, and as- 
sure him an enduring memorial not only 
in the hearts and minds of those who 
knew him, but to posterity hereafter. A 
highly educated man, and of intellectual 
refinement such as an intimate knowledge 
of nature and sympathy with her methods 
surely impart, he was, while unobtrusive 
to a degree, persistently active in under- 
takings to promote the development of 
the work which was his special life object 
to encourage, knowing full well its meas- 
ure of value to his fellow man. It should 
not be for us to waste energy in deploring 
his loss, but to study the life lesson he has 
left, and exercise ourselves in aiding the 
work he so brilliantly opened out for us. 
Besides so much of private practice, he 
was the most active promoter of ihe 
scheme for preserving the beauty spots of 
Massachusetts, a work of such appeal to 
public sentiment, that several states are 
now following in the train. He also took 
the lead in organizing the Metropolitan 
Park Board, of which he was made the 
landscape architect, and his plans for that 
magnificent series of parks and boulevards 
will be carried out. Scholar, artist, and 
gentleman, seemingly in every sense of 
the words, the name and fame of Charles 
Eliot will grow as the beautiful places he 
has designed and created develop into the 
full maturity he could not wait to enjoy. 
PERSONAL. 
Mr. John G. Barker has associated him- 
self with Mr. Blaisdell, Landscape Archi- 
tect, of Boston, in the work of landscape 
gardening, and is at present engaged on 
work in New Castle, Pa. 
Mr. Otto Buseck succeeds the lat e 
Henry McCrowe as superintendent of the 
parks of Paterson, N. J. 
Mr. Frank D. Willis, secretary Oakland 
Cemetery Association, St. Paul, Minn., 
suggests that as the Congressional Library, 
Washington, D. C., is finished, every 
cemetery association in the country 
should forward to that institution well 
bound copies of its publications. 
RECEIVED. 
Parish Notes for February, St. John’s 
Church, St. John, N. B., Canada. This 
issue contains some suggestions of Funeral 
Reform from the Episcopal point of view. 
Preliminary List of Premiums offered 
by The Horticultural Society of Chicago, 
to be awarded at the Annual Fall Exhibi- 
tion, November 9th, to 13th. 1897. 
Cornell University Agricultural 
Experiment Station, Ithaca, N. Y. 
Bulletin 124. January 1897. The Pistol- 
Case-Bearer in Western New York. 
By M. V. Slingerland, 
Bulletin 125, Cornell Nursery Bulletin 
125. February 1897. A Disease of Cur- 
rant Canes. By E. J. Durand. 
Bulletin 126. The Currant-Stem Gir- 
dlerand Tfie Raspberry-Cane Mag- 
got. By M. V. Slingerland. 
Bulletin 127. February 1897, A sec- 
ond account of Sweet Peas. By A. P. 
Wyman and M. G. Kains. 
Bulletin 128. February 1897. A Talk 
about Dahlias. By Wilhelm Miller. 
Act of Incorporation and By-Laws of 
the Harmony Grove Cemetery, Salem, 
Mass. Rules and Regulations of the 
Board of Trustees, etc. Illustrated by 
half-tones. 
Rules and Regulations, 1897. River- 
side Cemetery, Defiance, Ohio. With 
many half tone illustrations. 
Annual Report of the Woodlawn Ceme- 
tery, Everett, Mass., for the year ending 
December 31, 1896. Also Rules, Regu- 
lations and By-Laws. Illustrated. 
Report of the Board of Trustees of the 
Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn, N. Y., 
for the year 1896. 
Fourteenth Annual Report of the Board 
of Bark Commissioners of the city of Min- 
neapolis. Minn., for the year 1896. Illus- 
trated with many half tones. 
Regulations of the Government of the 
Gettysburg National Park, Gettysburg, 
Pa., 1895. 
Fifth Annual Report of the Board of 
Park Commissioners of the City of Duluth 
for the year 1896. With several half tone 
illustrations. 
Dreer’s Library. Grasses and 
Clovers, With Notes on Forage 
Plants. Henry A. Dreer. 714 Chest- 
nut Street, Philadelphia, Pa. Post- 
paid 25 cents. 
As the title page suggests this is a hand- 
book answering a few grass questions, with 
notes on forage and root crops, and a 
chapter on lawn making and management. 
While the book is intended to be a grass 
primer as the preface states, there is a 
vast deal more of valuable practical mat- 
ter in its pages than the term implies. In 
view of the distinct efforts to advance on 
all lines of agricultural development, a 
little work of this kind, practically written, 
well illustrated, and replete with valuable 
suggestions, is timely and a helpful aid to 
further effort. 
CATALOGUES. 
Parson’s & Sons Co., L’td. , Kissena 
Nurseries, Flushing, N. Y. Select list of 
Haidy Trees and Shrubs. — Wholesale 
Trade Price List and Supplement to same, 
Southern Iowa Nursery, Cantril, Iowa. — 
Wholesale Price List of Michigan Wild 
Flowers, collected and for sale by The 
Michigan Wild Flower Co., Rochester, 
Michigan. 
Catalogue No. 17 C. Hanika & Sons’ 
Architectural Iron Works, Manufacturers 
of Plain and Ornamental Iron and Wire 
Fencing, Railings, Crestings, Finials, 
Stair, Jail, Station House and Column 
Work. Muncie, Indiana. Fully illus- 
trated. 
Lawn sprinklers are being looked upon 
as a necessity and mechanical contrivances 
are being incorporated in their construc- 
tion to make them more effective and la- 
bor saving. The “Twin Comet” and 
“Little Giant Traveling Sprinkler” are 
most ingenious devices and very reason- 
able in cost. They are manufactured by 
the E. Stebbins, M’f’g. Co., Springe jld, 
Mass. 
The spraying of shade trees for the de- 
struction of insect pests is becoming gen- 
eral and spraying pumps a necessity. The 
P. C. Lewis M’f’g. Co., Catskill, N. Y., 
state that Paris Green or London Purple 
are sure remediesand they make a Spraying 
Rig for this purpose, guaranteed to be 
perfectly satisfactory. 
Like the Colors of the Ra'nbow. Kdging 
Plants coming from Pampas Grove. Greenland, 
Fla., charming, bright, compact growing toll- 
age plants. Send for a list or 10 cents for sam- 
ple dozen. 
FOR PARKS AND CEMETERIES. Rocky 
Mountain Shrubs and Evergreens, Beautiful 
Silver Pungens, Deep Blue Englemanii, Silver 
and Emerald Concolor. The U. S. Gov. buy 
35,000 of us this Spring. C. S. HARRISON, 
Weeping Water, Neb. 
ENGLISH IVY, FIELD GROWN 
2 years old $1.10 per 10, fS.oo per 100. 
1 year old 60 cts. per 10, $5.00 per 100. 
Sample by mail 15 cts. Cash with order. 
J. H, DANN & SON, Florists, Westfield, N, Y. 
Gardening 
Jg Afp* Water Lilies, Egyptian 
rafapk and Japan Lotus, Victoria 
Regia. 
W ilmaBwr We 9 arr v a full line of 
Aquatics, J 'pan Irises, 
Bamboos and hardy Orna- 
mental Reeds, Grasses and 
igaM Perennials suitable for wa- 
ter gardens. Plans and es- 
timates furnished, and 
jSESSf sketches of varieties made 
upon req uest. See catalo- 
WKmMM gueand separate Water 
fflMH m Lily Leaflet, (free). 
HENRY A- DREER, 
“ — PHILADELPHIA, PA 
