PARK AND CEMETERY, 
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Association of American Ceme- 
tery Superintendents. 
G. W. CREESY, “Harmony Grove,” 
Salem, Mass., President. 
ARTHUR W. HOBERT, “Lakewood," 
Minneapolis, Minn., Vice-President, 
F. EURICH, Woodlavvn, Toledo, O , 
Secretary and Treasurer. 
The Eleventh Annual Convention will 
be held at Cincinnati, 0 .,Sept. 14,15, 
16 and 17. 
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The Executive Committee has issued 
an address to cemetery officials, setting 
forth the object of the association and the 
importance of every cemetery in having 
its superintendent or some other official 
in attendance at its annual conventions. 
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The programme for the convention is 
completed and appears in other columns 
of this issue, 
^Publishers’ Departments 
Park Commissioners and Cemetery 
trustees are requested to send us copies of 
their reports. 
Photographs apd descriptive sketches of 
interesting features in parks and ceme- 
teries are solicited from our readers. 
We are indebted to Mr. Arthur W. 
Hobert, superintendent Lakewood Ceme- 
tery, Minneapolis, Minn., and Mr. T. 
Donlan, superintendent Oakdale Ceme- 
tery, Wilmington, N. C., for a collection 
of views of their respective cemeteries 
and descriptive matter, and to Mr. Ed ward 
Ferguson, secretary and treasurer Forest 
Home Cemetery, Milwaukee, Wis., for 
interior views of the recently completed 
crematorium in the cemetery. 
A Question of Re-Organization 1 
A correspondent has submitted the fol- 
lowing question on re-organization for in- 
formation: A cemetery association having 
o ganized under “non-profltable” corpo- 
ration laws, and having purchased a tract 
of 140 acres, with a view of improving, 
perpetuating and conducting the ceme- 
tery on a modern basis, finds it in conse- 
quence very slow work refunding the orig- 
inal outlay for the tract to the incorpo- 
rators who made the purchase, and it is 
now desirable that the finances should be 
put into good shape. The cemetery has 
two hundred lot owners and about 1,000 
interments. The by-laws permit of lot 
owners becoming voters on fulfillment of 
certain conditions. Hard times have mili- 
tated against carrying out intended plans, 
and information is now desired as to the 
best possible methods to be adopted to 
re-organize so as to afford better facil- 
ties for carrying them out. PARKLAND 
Cemetery will be glad to learn the expe- 
rience of any of its readers on this ques- 
tion. 
A Suggestion. 
Mr. J. A. Thorn, Supt., Battle Grove 
cemetery, Cynthiana. Ky., writes: “Why 
not have a display of all tools, labeled, 
used in modern cemetery work, and invite 
dealers to make a similar display, such as 
Lawn Mowers, Edging Tools, Grass Clip- 
pers, Hooks, Pruning Tools of all kinds, 
and even grave digging tools, for I find a 
wonderful difference in them. I venture 
to say that many superintendents would 
find this an educational feature.” 
A Warning. 
The writer’s attention has been called 
to the fact that the Scotch thistle threat- 
ens to become a nuisance in some locali- 
ties, spreading quite rapidly. As the op- 
posite of this was assumed in the illus- 
trated account of the plant in the July is- 
sue of Park and Cemetery, it seems 
best to at once inform those (if there are 
any) who, like the writer, have not seen in 
it any such dangerous tendency. Mr. 
Warren H. Manning, who likes its looks 
but not its manners, says that it is already 
troublesome around Cincinnati, O., as 
well as in several localities in the east. 
In view of this it will be well to treat it 
with great discretion where used at all. 
Fanny Copley Seavty. 
RECEIVED. 
Maine Agricultural Experiment Sta- 
tion, University of Maine, Orono, Me. 
Bulletin No. 36, August, 1897. Testing 
Seeds. Contains full text of an “Act 
to Regulate the Sale of Agricultural 
Seeds, etc. 
Bulletin No. 37, August, 1897. Feed- 
ing Stuff Inspection. Text of the 
“Act to Regulate the Sale and Analy- 
sis of Concentrated Commercial Feed- 
ing Stuff, etc.” 
The T rans-Mississippi and International Ex- 
position, Omaha, Neb. 
From Mr. J. Y. Craig, Superintendent 
Forest Lawn Cemetery, Omaha, Illus- 
trated Pamphlet issued by the Depart- 
ment of the Trans-Mississippi and Inter- 
national Exposition, now in course of ac- 
tive preparation in Omaha. The pam- 
phlet gives outline pictures of the main 
buildings of the Exposition, together with 
descriptive matter concerning the Expo- 
sition which is to be opened in 1898, the 
resources of Omaha and other informa- 
tion. Mr. Craig writes that the prepara- 
tions for the Exposition are progressing 
most favorably. He is in hopes of induc- 
ing the Association of American Ceme- 
tery Superintendents to hold their con- 
vention of 1898 in Omaha. The ceme- 
teries of themselves, which are practically 
in their infancy, would not offer sufficient 
inducements, but in connection with the 
Exposition there will be educational ad- 
vantages worthy of attention and study, 
and the influence on the cemeteries of 
contiguous States exerted by the presence 
of the association in convention at Omaha 
in so important a year would be helpful 
and fraught with undoubted benehcial 
possibilities. 
New York Gardeners’ Society. 
A special meeting of the New York 
Gardeners’ Society was held in their 
rooms on Saturday, July 24, for the pur- 
pose of distributing the prizes won at their 
exhibition in the City Hall in June. 
The president, Mr. John Shore, in hand- 
ing the winners the several valuable cups 
and money prizes, accompanied them 
with suitable remarks, which were re- 
sponded to by the recipients. 
An exhibition of cannas and other flowers 
will be given at the time of the society’s 
first annual dinner, on the second Satur- 
day in September, and a Chrysanthemum 
Show will be held in November. 
On the exhibition table were some very 
fine seedling cannas, raised by Mr. A. L. 
Marshall of Pawling, N. Y., one of which 
a large, deep crimson flower named John 
B. Dutcher, which is an improvement on 
Chas. Henderson, was awarded the Soci- 
ety’s certificate. 
Messrs. John M. Hunter and A. Wels- 
ing also made displays of new and stan- 
dard varieties of cannas. The latter 
showed a vase of asters, which were much 
admired. 
A certificate of merit was awarded Mr. 
Ferdinand Mangold for a new Cypripe- 
dium. 
The next meeting of the society will be 
held on the occasion of the dinner on Sep- 
tember 11, which will be a great event 
amongst the gardeners ol this section. 
James I. Donlan . 
“A Good Idea.” 
It has been suggested and we believe it 
a good idea for the members of the Asso- 
ciation of American Cemetery Superin- 
tendents coming from the north and west 
to arrange their arrival in Chicago, 'so as 
to go from this city to Cincinnati together, 
thereby insuring a pleasant trip and re- 
newal of friendship. The Big Four Route, 
having unsurpassed equipment with three 
trains a day, has arranged to take care of 
our party. Buy your tickets through to 
Cincinnati, asking the agent that they 
route you via the Big Four Line for Chi- 
cago. Should you desire any further in- 
formation — rates, time, etc., address J. C. 
Tucker, 234 Clark street, Chicago. 
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