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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 .,Sept. 14,15, 
16 and 1 7. 
^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. 
The American Association of Nursery- 
men will this year hold their annual con- 
vention at St. Louis, on June 9, 10. The 
convention will be entertained on the eve- 
ning of the 10th. at the banquet provided 
by the Shaw bequest, for which invitations 
have been issued by Prof. Trelease. 
At the next meeting of the Horticul- 
tural Society of Chicago, Mr. O. C. Sim- 
onds, landscape gardener and superinten- 
dent of Graceland Cemetery, Chicago, 
will read a paper on: “What are the es- 
sential qualifications of the ideal park 
superintendent, and what are their rela- 
tive importance.” It is expected that the 
public press may be induced to fully re- 
port the paper and the discussion, so that 
the people may be informed on the im- 
portance of many features of the subject 
both to their pleasure and welfare. 
Mr. F. W. Higgins, superintendent of 
Woodmere Cemetery, Woodmere, Mich., 
desires to return his thanks to his fellow 
superintendents for their kindness in com- 
plying with his request for illustrations and 
details of cemetery entrances, and further- 
more for their kindly sympathy in his 
misfortune of losing the home, by the fire 
which occurred at the cemetery on 
April 3rd. Plans have been prepared for 
a new entrance building and superin- 
tendent's residence, to be completed this 
summer. 
Mr. J. G. Jack has been conducting a 
series of lectures and field meetings at the 
Arnold Arboretum for the purpose of giv- 
ing instruction in a popular form concern- 
ing the trees and shrubs of New England. 
The course began on May 1st. and will 
close June 19th. The class assembles each 
day in the lecture room of the Bussey in- 
stitution, where a review is given of cer- 
tain groups of trees and shrubs, and then 
adjourns to the arboretum for an informal 
out-door study of the plants. 
Mrs. M. G. Van Renssaloer discusses 
some of the essential truths of landscape 
art in the exquisitely illustrated article on 
Prof. Sargents country home, near Boston, 
in the May number of the Century Maga- 
zine. The concluding paragraph sums up 
the breadth and requirement of this allur- 
ing subject. “Landscape gardening is a 
genuine art, an independent art, a very dif- 
ficult art, and one which demands much 
knowledge of other than artistic kinds. 
No superficial amateur, and no profes- 
sional man of one-sided training, can cre- 
ate a really fine country place of a highly 
civilized and polished sort, perfectly 
adapted to the needs and tastes of its own- 
ers entirely appropriate to its situation, 
completely realizing the natural possibili- 
ties of its site, displaying the full resources 
of modern horticulture, delighting the eye 
with pictures of the most diverse kinds, and 
satisfying it by their combination into a 
harmonious whole. The genesis of a country 
place like Holm Lea requires the mind of 
a practised horticulturist, the heart of a 
lover of nature, the eye of a trained artist 
— and, besides all these, the beautiful pa- 
tience of Job.” 
RECEIVED. 
Cornell University Agricultural 
Experiment Station, Ithaca, N. Y. 
Bulletin 129. February 1897. Chemi- 
cal Division. How to conduct Field 
Experiments with Fertilizers. By G. 
C. Caldwell. 
Bulletin 130. March 1897. Agricul- 
tural Division. Potato Culture. By 
J. P. Roberts and L. A. Clinton. 
Maine State College Agricultural 
Experiment Station. Orono, Me. 
Reports for the years 1888-189; inclusive. 
Eight volumes. 
Woodlawn Cemetery, New York, An- 
nual Report to the Lot-owners for the 
year 1896, with Rules, Regulations, etc. 
Illustrated with half tone engravings. 
Annual Report of the Trustees to Lot- 
owners of Riverside Cemetery, Rochester, 
N. Y., with Revised Rules and Regula- 
tions, adopted 1897. Illustrated with half 
tones and map. 
Lakewood Cemetery Association An- 
nual, 1897. 
Annual Report of the Commissioner o^ 
Parks, City of Brooklyn, New York. 1896- 
A beautifully illustrated report in book 
form. 
St. John Rural Cemetery, St. John, N. 
B. Report of the Directors of the Com- 
pany presented at the Annual Meeting 
held April 5, 1897, including reports of 
Treasurer and Superintendent. 
Fifty-F'ifth Annual Report of the busi- 
ness of Lowell Cemetery to the Proprie- 
tors, 1897. Lowell, Mass. 
Second Annual Report, Board of Pub- 
lic Works, City of Little Falls, N. Y., 
1896. 
The Cremation Society of England. A 
description with illustrations. London, 
1897 - 
Art Out-of-Doors, Hints on Good 
Taste in Gardening. By Mrs. 
Schuyler Van Rensselaer, New York. 
Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1897 . 
To those imbued with the ifeve of the 
beautiful, at least as it relates more speci- 
fically to nature and her wonderful revela- 
tions, the writings of Mrs. Van Rensselaer 
must always be attractive. Her evident 
sympathy with all natural beauty, coupled 
with a wealth of knowledge imbibed from 
constant study and association with nature 
herself, and a facile pen to impart to her 
readers whatever of her knowledge and 
ideas she desires them to consider, makes 
her writings of peculiar interest. More- 
over she makes herself a seer concerning 
the era of landscape work and home im- 
provement now approaching with the 
rapidity with which a well defined pro- 
gress sweeps over our national life. 
“Art-of-doors” makes delightful read- 
ing for the dilettante; for one interested in 
landscape art it is full of suggestive infor- 
mation, and no one will put down the 
book without being impressed with the 
fact that landscape gardening in its proper 
sense is indeed art, requiring profound 
knowledge, close acquaintance with nature 
and a refined sense of beauty, varied in 
expression countless times. 
The American Woods, Exhibited by 
Actual Specimens and with Copious 
Explanatory Text, by Romeyn B. 
Hough, B. A. Part 1. Represent- 
ing Twenty-five Species by Twenty- 
six Sections. Second Edition. Low- 
ville, N. Y., U. S. A. Published and 
Sections Prepared by the Author. 
1893. 
For a study of American trees this book 
would be unique, for its explanatory text, 
glossary and descriptive matter, introduc- 
ing the main feature of the work, the ac- 
tual mounted sections of the wood, rounds 
out the subject in an interesting manner. 
The wood sections are mounted three on 
a card, and give transverse, radial and 
tangential sections, and the cards bear the 
botanical and common names in several 
languages. This method of treating the 
subject is not only exceedingly valuable 
as tending to inculcate a better knowl- 
edge, but it is also an object lesson lead- 
ing to a wider and more positive acquaint- 
ance with trees and their uses. 
A Kansas City man recently died, leav- 
ing a will, but not a dollar’s worth of 
property was found. It was Rabelais who 
left the following “last will and testa- 
ment,” which will forever stand alone in 
its way: “In the name of God, amen. I 
have nothing. I owe much. I give the 
rest to the poor .” — Kansas City Star. 
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35.000 of us this Spring. C. S. HARRISON. 
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