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PARK AND CEMETERY, 
Asscciation of American Ceme- 
tery Superintendents. 
G. W. CREESY, “Harmony Grove,” 
Salem, Mass., President. 
ARTHUR W. HOBERT. “Lakewoo-l,” 
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. 
Wanted. The publisher of Park & 
Cemetery would thank subscribers for 
the address of architects who have made 
plan . for receiving vaults, chapels, etc. 
The regular midsummer meeting of the 
Indiana Horticultural Society was held 
at Pendleton on June 15, 16. In the 
course of an interesting programme Prof. 
T. F. Monson of Purdue University read 
a paper on “Two Educational Ideals.” 
The American Association of Nursery- 
men at their recent convention at St. 
Louis. Mo., selected Omaha as the next 
place of meeting and elected the follow- 
ing officers: President, Irving Rouse of 
New York; vice-president, E. Albertson 
of Indiana ; secretary, George C. Seagerof 
New Yory ; treasurer, N. A. Whitney of 
Illinois. Executive committee : C. L. 
Watrous, Iowa; R.C. Berckmans, Georgia, 
and F. H . Stannard, Nebraska. 
A CORRECTION. 
In a cemetery note on the Marion, O/, 
Cemetery, at top of page 70, last issue the 
number 18,000 should read 8,000, which, 
as Mr. Sharpless says, “makes quite a dif- 
ference.” 
William Wells, a Chicago florist, has 
been appointed Superintendent of the 
three Chicago North Side Parks under the 
control of the city, Washington Square, 
Oak Park and Green Bay Park. 
The Lincoln Park commissioners, Chi- 
cago, have appointed Charles W. And- 
rews superintendent of that park. The 
appointment is based on business ability 
only and is arousing keen indignation, as 
it should. 
OBITUARY. 
John Saul, the well known Washington, 
D. C., nurseryman and florist, died at his 
home near that city on May 12. He was 
born at Lismore, Ireland, Dec, 25, 1823, 
and in due course finished his education 
in landscape gardening, and was engaged 
in active nursery work in England until 
1851, when he left for Washington, United 
States. Under the government he laid out 
the grounds of the Smithsonian Institute 
and was employed by the late W. W. 
Corcoran. In 1852 he purchased the prop- 
erty on which he spent the remainder of 
his life, devoting his time principally to 
the cultivation and sale of orchidsand rare 
decorative plants. 
ROBERT DOUGLAS. 
Robert Douglas, the well known nur- 
seryman of Waukegan, a man of national 
reputation on arboriculture, died suddenly 
in Waukegan, recently. He had been ill 
with pneumonia but had apparently re- 
covered. After dinner and while sitting 
in his office he quietly passed away. He 
was born in England 84 years ago, and 
had lived in Waukegan since 1844, most 
of the time engaged in the nursery busi- 
ness. He was an authority on forestry 
and arboriculture and gave valuable assis- 
tance to the Forestry Commission in pre- 
paring reports for the censuses of 1880 and 
1890. He left three sons. 
RECEIVED . 
Second Annual Report of the Board of 
Park Commissioners of the city of Indian- 
apolis, 1897. Illustrated. 
By Laws and Regulations of the Ode- 
bolt Cemetery Association of Odebolt, 
Iowa. 
Flushing Cemetery, Flushing, L. I. 
Descriptive Illustrated pamphlet. 
Cypress Lawn Cemetery, San Mateo 
Co., California. A beautifully illus- 
trated descriptive pamphlet, containing 
also By Laws Rules, Regulations, etc. 
The 48 th annual report of the Board of 
Directors of the Evergreen Cemetery Asso- 
ciation, New Haven, Conn. With the re- 
ports of the Secretary, Treasurer and audi- 
tors for the year ending Feb. 1, 1897. 
Annual Report of the Parks Commis- 
sion of the City of Worcester, Mass., for 
the year ending Nov. 30, 1896. Illus- 
trated. 
Sixth annual report of the Board of Park 
Commissioners of the City of St. Paul, for 
the year ending March 1, 1897. Illustrated 
with many half tones. 
General Catalogue and Garden Guide 
for the south of the Southern California 
Acclimatizing Asociation, Santa Barbara, 
Cal. Comprising summary description, 
Degree of Hardiness, Hints to Culture of 
1500 sorts of Plants. The general object 
of this association, under the general man- 
agement of Dr. F. P'ranceschi, is to pro- 
mote knowledge and taste for horticulture 
all over the United States and particular- 
ly in the south. The association has been 
the means of introducing a large number 
of new plants and varieties, and have re- 
cently received an order from the Royal 
Gardens of Kew, England, for 50 different 
species not in its collection. Wherever 
there is a conservatory this catalogue can 
be of service. 
Cornell University Agricultural 
Experiment Station, Ithaca, N. Y. 
Bulletin 131. March 1897. Notes upon 
Plums for Western New York. By 
S. D. Willard and L. H. Bailey. 
Bulletin 132, March, 1897. Notes upon 
Celery. By. B. M. Duggar and L. PI. 
Bailey. 
Teachers Leaflets on Nature Study pre- 
pared for the Rural Schools by the 
Agricultural Experiment Station of 
Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y. Nos. 
1,3 and 6. These very instructive 
leaflets are by enactment only for the 
use of the State of New York, but 
by permission of the Department they 
may be obtained at low rates from 
the printer, V/. F. Humphrey, Gen- 
eva, N. Y. 
An Andover, Mass. , Exchange says : 
Keep the ball a rolling; don’t let the 
interest flag in village improvement and 
all of its kindred local development. A 
village green, an historical and geological 
reservation, and a beautiful Carmel Park, 
are all in prospect as the outcome of the 
splendid campaign for a more beautiful 
Andover. Each object gained will bring 
the next one all the sooner. “Do the 
next thing.” 
casket lowering device. 
The casket lowering device advertised 
in this issue by O. S. Osborn & Co., of 
Milford, 111 ., has been in successful opera- 
tion for eighteen months. Its manufac- 
turers, who have long been identified with 
the undertaker’s profession, gave the de- 
vice thorough tests before engaging in its 
manufacture, and offer every assurance of 
its entire success. It possesses many 
points of superiority over other devices, 
not the least important being the price. 
Circulars illustrating and describing the 
working parts of the device will be sent on 
application by the manufacturers. 
Lawns and Gardens. By N. Jons- 
son Rose, with plans and illustrations 
by the author. G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 
New York, 1897. 
A large amount of practical informa- 
tion is contained within the covers of this 
book, as might be expected from the pen 
of a practical gardener, able to express 
himself with intelligence and force. It is 
written with a view to give practical infor- 
mation looking to the improvement of 
home grounds and surroundings, and as 
an aid to every owner of a country resi- 
dence, village improvement societies, 
landscape gardeners and young students. 
To the lover of gardening it is an addition 
to his library of practical worth, the auth- 
or offering his information from a varied 
experience from the Royal Gardens at Kew 
England, through extensive travel to study 
the art of landscape gardening, to his pres- 
ent charge of the Morningside and River- 
side Parks, under the Park Commission of 
New York City. The work contains some 
400 pages with 172 illustrations and plans. 
"It describes the use of surveyingand level- 
ling instruments; methods of grading and 
modelling ground surface, gives sugges- 
tions on the study of natural scenery, on 
the grouping and massing of trees and 
shrubs, making flower beds and borders 
etc., etc., and concludes with a description 
of the better trees, shrubs and their plants 
useful in various situations in this climate. 
Like the Colors of the Rainbow. Edging 
Plants coming from Pampas Grove, Greenland, 
Fla., charming, bright, compact growing foli- 
age plants. Send for a list or 10 cents for sam- 
ple dozen. 
ENGLISH IVY, FIELD GROWN 
2 years old $1.10 per 10, $8.00 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. 
Aquatic Gardening 
Water Lilies, Egyptian 
and Japan Lotus, Victoria 
Regia. 
We carry a full line of 
Aquatics, Japan Irises, 
Bamboos and hardy Orna- 
mental Reeds, Grasses and 
Perennials suitable for wa- 
ter gardens. Plans and es- 
timates furnished, and 
sketches of varieties made 
upon request. See catalo- 
gue and separate Water 
Lily Leaflet, (free). 
HENRY A- DREER, 
PHILADELPHIA, PA 
