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, Woodlawn, Toledo, O , 
Secretary and Treasurer. 
^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 attention of our readers is called to 
a series of articles by Mr. O. C. Simonds 
on Residence Streets, the first of which 
appears in this issue. The subject is a 
timely one, in view of the interest awak- 
ening in art out-of-doors, for the treatment 
of our residence streets, in anyway ap- 
proaching an artistic manner, has been a 
neglected factor in our urban development. 
The series of articles now begun will be a 
valuable contribution to this phase of land- 
scape gardening, and will include the 
planning and planting of streets, illus- 
trated in such a manner as to convey a 
clear understanding of the points discussed 
and to stimulate a more wide spread de- 
sire to beautify the environments of our 
homes. 
Thanks. 
Park and Cemetery takes pleasure in 
thanking the Henry A. Dreer Co., Phila- 
delphia, for the special invitation to visit 
Dreer's Nurseries, Riverton, N. J., in con- 
nection with the Third Annual Excursion 
of Florists and Gardeners of Philadelphia, 
which occurred August 31st. It may be 
added that all accounts agree that the af- 
fair was an unusual pleasure and it re- 
ceived the warmest commendation from 
all participants. 
RECEIVED. 
Year book of the United States Depart- 
ment of Agriculture, 1896, Washington, 
Government Printing office, 1897. This 
is the third volume of this series issued 
and contains over 600 pages, and a large 
number of illustrations. It is one of 
the most valuable works issued by the 
government, containing as it does, a 
great fund of information 011 agricul- 
tural matters, collected from papers and 
reports of experts, investigators and the 
results of the works of the agricultural 
colleges. The papers are given more in 
the form of popular essays, containing 
all the authentic information which in- 
vestigation develops but put in a style 
easily comprehended by the average 
reader. The appendix preserves in con- 
venient form condensed statistics and 
some valuable material in the way of re- 
cipes and directions in regard to 
horticultural practice. 
Official Guide to Tennessee Centennial 
and City of Nashville. Nashville, Tenn.: 
Marshall & Bruce Co., 1897. 
Mount Greenwood Cemetery, Mt. 
Greenwood, Chicago. Rules, Regulations; 
Information for Lot owners, etc. 
History and By-laws of the Woodlawn 
Cemetery Association, Kansas City, Kan- 
sas. Illustrated with half tone engravings. 
From Wm. F. Jewson, superintendent, 
By-laws and Rules of the Mankato Ceme- 
tery Association for the government of 
Glenwood cemetery, Mankato, Minn. 
Illustrated with half tones. 
The Kensico cemetery, New York. 
Annual report to the Lot Proprietors for 
the year 1 896, with Rules and Regulations. 
No expense is spared on this annual pub- 
lication either on lettter press or illustra- 
tions, and this the latest is far in advance 
of those issued previously. It is a good 
policy to expend liberally on printed mat- 
ter. 
Lakeside Cemetery of Buffalo, N. Y. 
Beautifully illustrated pamphlet of this 
new cemetery, containing description, 
rules and regulations and full particulars 
regarding lots and facilities. 
U. S. Department of Agriculture. Far- 
mers’ Bulletin, No. 28. “Weedsand How 
to Kill Them.” Lyster H. Dewey, Assis- 
tant Botanist. 
University of Tennesee, Knoxville, 
Tenn. Register 1866-97. Announcement 
1897-98. The college was founded in 1794, 
and as the University of Tennessee, it has 
just issued a prettily illustrated brochure, 
entitled: “A Century of a College.” 
catalogues. 
General Catalogue No. 27. The Kil- 
bourne & Jacobs M’f’g. Co., Columbus, O. 
Manufacturers of Drag and Wheel Road 
Scrapers. Bolted Wheelbarrows of all 
kinds. Contractor’s Railroad and Grad- 
ing Plows; Tubular Steel Dirt, Mining, 
Foundry, Coal and Coke Barrows. Con- 
tractors Railroad and Farm Dump Carts. 
Wrought Steel Sinks. Pressed Steel 
Shop Pans. Pressed steel shapes a spec- 
ialty. 
Fred’k. W. Kelsey, New York. No. 39. 
Autumn of 1897. Selected Hardy Trees, 
Shrubs, Bulbs and Plants for Fall Plant- 
ing. 
Fruitland Nurseries, Augusta, Ga. , 
Catalogue No. 1, 1897. Fruit and Orna- 
mental Trees, Roses, etc, P. J. Berck- 
mans, Proprietor. 
The Water Garden, embracing the 
construction of Ponds, adapting natural 
streams, Planting, Hybridizing, Seed 
Saving, Propagation, Building an Aqua- 
tic House, Wintering, Correct Design- 
ing and Planting of Banks and Margins, 
together with Cultural Directions for all 
Ornamental Aquatics. By William 
Tricker. Published by A. T. De La 
Mare Printing and Publishing Com- 
pany, Ltd. New York. Price $2. 
This quarto volume, which by the way, 
is illustrated with nine plates, eighteen 
full page views and numerous other cuts in 
the text is intended as a practical hand- 
book for the cultivation of Aquatic plants, 
whether for large establishments or for the 
amateur. The name of the author Wil- 
liam Tricker, so well known everywhere 
in connection with the cultivation and 
propagation of this class of plants for the 
comparatively new horticulture the “water 
garden,” gives a value to the work in a 
practical sense. Beyond this the assist- 
ance which is acknowledged in the pre - 
face lends an added assurance that the en- 
thusiasm which has attended the cultiva- 
tion of the beautiful water lilies and asso- 
ciated plants, and which has so rapidly 
made the work popular, combines to en- 
dorse the publication as opportune and as 
a desirable and needful guide to the fur- 
ther development of water gardening. 
The book is lull of practical detail and the 
illustrations from actual photographs of 
plants and gardens, help to an under- 
standing of the requirements and treat- 
ment necessary to success in the cultiva- 
tion and disposition of this beautiful class 
of plants and the establishment of large 01- 
small water gardens. 
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. 
We acknowledge our indebtedness to 
that admirable magazine of landscape art, 
“Park and Cemetery,” of Chicago, for 
the beautiful views on our first page that 
have given us the text for our article on 
“Rural Cemeteries.” It is a monthly, re- 
plete with good things from the pens of 
the most [able people in our country, who 
devote themselves to “art out-of doors.” 
— Michigan Fruit Grower and Practical 
Farmer. 
John Boyle O'Reilly’s Grave. 
The memory of John Boyle O'Reilly 
still lives. The grave of the poet in Holy- 
hood cemetery, at Brookline, constantly 
bears floral emblems, mute testimony of a 
lingering affection, says the Boston Globe. 
The ample burial lot, which is 88 by 40 
feet in extent, is located in the handsom- 
est spot in Holyhood. It is planted with 
Irish grass, while the red shamrock and 
the beautiful Irish daisy grow round it 
in profusion. The lot is shaded with shrub- 
bery transplanted from the poet’s native 
land. Among the trees are golden cedars, 
from Newton Ards, county Down; Irish 
junipers, Irish yew trees, rhododendrons 
and many young Irish purple beeches. 
The beds beneath the shrubs and trees 
are studded with a wealth of pansies and 
forget-me-nots. Nature herself, however, 
has given O’Reilly his most appropriate 
monument in the tremendous rock spring- 
ing from the ledge underlying his burial 
lot. This huge pentagonal mass of stone, 
springing 12 feet in height, and weighing 
about 75 tons, represents better than any 
work of art all that O’Reilly’s life and na- 
ture meant. His face implanted in the 
rock makes as complete an emblem of re- 
membrance as could be desired. The 100 
ivies from Louth castle, the poet’s native 
home, planted three years ago, together 
