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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. 
gPublishers’ 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. 
At the Fall show, next month, of the 
Chicago Horticultural Society, instead of 
the Japanese art exhibit that was a prom- 
inent feature of last year’s exhibition, the 
Society has made arrangements with a 
number of the well-known artists of Chi- 
cago, by which the latter co-operate in an 
exhibit of painting, sculpture and other 
artistic efforts. One corner of one of the 
halls will be arranged by them with pic- 
tures and statuary and it is expected that 
the new order of a combined flower and 
art exhibit will attract wide attention. 
It is proposed to hold a Congress of Agri- 
cultural Industries in Omaha, Neb., next 
year during the Exposition. It is ex- 
pected to comprise representative dele- 
gates from State Boards of Agriculture, 
farm journals, horticultural societies, 
dairymen’s associations, live stock breed- 
ers’ societies, and organizations related to 
husbandry and its sessions may occupy 
three or four weeks. At this time the 
American Association of Agricultural Col- 
leges and Experiment Stations, American 
N urserymen’s Convention, the Dairymen’s 
National Association, and other associa- 
tions of allied interests will hold their an- 
nual conventions. The managers have 
been assured of the co-operation of Secre- 
tary Wilson, Department of Agriculture. 
A Good Idea. 
The ladies of the Twentieth Century 
Club, Fayette, Iowa, have been requested 
to co-operate with the Trustees of the 
Fayette Cemetery Association for the pur- 
pose of improving and beautifying the 
Fayette Cemetery Grounds and a com- 
mittee has been appointed with instruc- 
tions to ornament and improve the ceme- 
tery as they think best, with the approval 
of said Trustees of the Association. 
Twelve acres of land have lately been pur- 
chased. The committee will also solicit 
funds to secure a wind-mill, tank and well 
and other improvements, as well as do- 
nations of urns, and other decorative and 
useful ornaments, chairs, settees, etc. The 
corresponding secretary is Mrs. Nora Graf. 
Obituary. 
WILLIAM A. STILES. 
William A. Stiles, well-known in many 
lines of work, but particularly so of recent 
years, as a Park Commissioner of New 
York City and managing editor of Garden 
and Forest, passed away on the morning 
of Wednesday, October 6th. Abdominal 
cancer was the direct cause of his death. 
The following epitome of his career tells 
the story of an unusually active life, whose 
work has directly benefited his fellow man. 
Mr. Stiles was born at Wantage, N, J., 
in 1837. He graduated from Yale College 
in 1859, and later taught in his fathers’ 
school, Mount Retirement Seminary. 
Subsequently he spent several years in 
California as a young man, and was for a 
time a member of the engineering corps 
of the Union Pacific Railway. Later he 
dropped into politics. He was a Repub- 
lican, and ran for Senator in 1880 and ’83, 
but was defeated both times. He filled 
the office of clerk in the New Jersey State 
Senate in the years i 882-’84 ’85, and was 
at one time United States gauger in New 
York City. Drifting into journalism, he 
became a member of the staff of the New 
York Tribune, and acted in the capacity 
of agricultural editor of the Philadelphia 
Weekly Press. In 1888 he became manag- 
ing editor of Garden and Forest, under 
Professor C. S. Sargent by whom that 
journal is still conducted. 
Mr. Stiles was appointed a park com- 
missioner for New York City, by Mayor 
Strong in 1895, in which office he ren- 
dered valuable service, having given the 
subject of park making careful study. 
His name has been prominently before 
the public recently in connection with his 
determined opposition to the adoption of 
the proposed plans of the Botanical Gar- 
den as submitted and amended by the 
Botanical Society. 
From early youth he displayed those 
characteristics which have marked his life 
— a love of study and intellectual develop- 
ment, crystallizing into an individuality 
that made him a man of mark in what- 
ever he undertook. As a public speaker 
and as a writer he was well-known, and 
his knowledge of trees and plants and a 
cultivated taste in landscape art, will 
cause a keen and widespread regret that the 
great reaper did not pass him by for yet a 
little while. 
RECEIVED. 
Kinkead Cemetery Association, Alexan- 
dria, Minn. By-laws, Rules and Regula- 
tions, as Revised and Adopted April 8, 
1897, with statutes of the State of Minne- 
sota pertaining to cemeteries. 
From Mr. Sid. J. Hare, Supt, Forest Hill 
Cemetery, Kansas City, fourteen photo- 
graphs of views and incidents connected 
with the recent convention of the A. A. 
C. S. 
From Mr. F. A. Sherman, Supt. Ever- 
green Cemetery, New Haven, Conn., a 
number ol photographs of Spring Grove 
Cemetery, Cincinnati, and other features 
connected with A. A. C. S. 
Mr. P. A. Macomber, Clerk of Ceme- 
tery Board, City of New Bedford, Mass., 
photograph of New Receiving Vault re- 
cently completed in the Rural Cemetery. 
CATALOGUES. 
Highland’s Nursery. 13th year, 1897.98. 
Hardy American Plants. Harlan P. Kel- 
sey, 1 123 Tremont Building, Boston, Mass. 
The office has been removed from Ke- 
wana, N. C., to above address. 
1897-1898. T. V. Munson & Sons Nur- 
series, Denison, Texas. 
Fall Bulb Catalogue, American Bulb 
Company, successors to Bulb and Seed 
business of Pitcher & Manda, Short Hills, 
N. J. 
Select Catalogue of Horticultural Books, 
treating on the cultivation of Fruits, 
Flowers, and Vegetables, the study of 
Botany and Horticulture in general, and 
also including the best works published on 
allied Industries and Pursuits. A. T. De 
la Mare, Ptg. & Pub. Co. Ltd., Rhine- 
lander Buildirg, New York. 
Descriptive Catalogue of Ornamental 
Trees, Shrubs, Vines, Evergreens, 
Hardy Plants and Fruits. Illustrated. 
Fall 1897.— Spring 1898. Thomas 
Meehan & Sons, Nurserymen and 
Landscape Engineers, P. O. .Station 
“G.,” Germantown, Philadelphia, Pa. 
This is the 31st edition of Messrs. Mee- 
han’s catalogue, and it goes without saying 
that it is kept quite up to date. The nur- 
sery has really been in existence for 45 
years, and the policy adopted in the be- 
ginning has steadily matured with the 
passing years, and was wise in its incep- 
tion and has been wisely prosecuted ever 
since, if an established reputation for re- 
liability and progressiveness stands as a 
guarantee. As has been before observed 
in regard to this annual production, it is, 
so far as its contents go, and these cover a 
wide extent of plant life, a valuable practi- 
cal botanical reference book, giving the 
necessary information as to size, character, 
hardiness and other features of the trees 
and plants it lists, and its chapters of ad- 
vice in regard to the pruning and care of 
plants, and suggestions on landscape gar- 
dening are worthy of adoption in all ways. 
The nursery stock is a large and complete 
one, collected, cultivated and prepared for 
distribution on scientific principles and 
practical knowledge. 
Like the Colors of the Rainbow. Edging 
Plants coming from Pampas Grove, Greenland, 
Fla., charming, bright, compact growing folil 
age plants. Send for a list or 10 cents for sam- 
ple dozen. 
New York Gardener’s Society. 
The New York Gardeners Society’s 
first Annual Dinner and Horticultural 
Exhibition, took place at the Grand Cen- 
tral Palace, New York City, on the eve- 
ning of Sept. 1 ith. and was in every way 
a pleasant success. Some 70 prominent 
private gardeners and commercial horti- 
culturists participating. 
The dining table, which was handsomely 
decorated, was arranged in the centre of 
the exhibits and the gorgeously brilliant 
colors of cannas, dahlias, gladiolus, num- 
bers of herbaceous flowers and delicate 
orchids, set amid graceful ferns, all com- 
bined to make a magnificent frame to the 
festive board, and savor a bountiful menu. 
Among those exhibiting were C. W. 
Ward, Queens, Long Island, with a col- 
lection of 50 of the best varieties of can- 
