PARK AND CEMETERY. 
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Association of American Ceme' 
tery Superintendents. 
ARTHUR W. HOBERT, ‘'Lakewood/' 
Minneapolis, Minn., President. 
Wm. STONE, “Pine Grove, ” 
Lynn, Mass., Vice-President. 
F. EURICH, Woodward Lawn, Detroit, Mich. 
Secretary and Treasurer. 
The Thirteenth Annual Convention will 
be held at New Haven, Conn. 
The American Park and Out- Door 
Art Association. 
CHARLES M. LORING, Minneapolis, Minn. 
President. 
WARREN H. MANNING, Tremont Building, 
Boston, Mass. Secretary. 
E- B HASKELL, Boston, Treasurer. 
The next meeting of the Association 
will be held at Detroit, Mich. 
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. 
Notice to Cemetery Officials. 
The publication “Modern Cemeteries” 
in book form is now ready, and those who 
had ordered copies should have received 
them by this time. An acknowledge- 
ment of the receipt will be appreciated. 
It is to be hoped that this book will be 
ordered freely as it contains valuable in- 
formation on cemetery development and 
management. 
Copies will be mailed to any address at 
50 cents; please remit with order. 
Frank Eurich, Sec’y and Treas. , 
604 Union Trust, Detroit, Mich. 
Personal. 
William Salway, so long and favorably 
known as the superintendent of the ceme- 
tery of Spring Grove, Cincinnati, O., has 
now practicably retired from the duties of 
the position and is succeeded by his son 
Mr. Fred Salway. Mr. Salway’s long 
connection with this cemetery has made 
his name a “household word” among cem- 
etery officials, and the high order of land- 
scape work he has maintained and con- 
tinued in these beautiful grounds places 
his name high among those who have en- 
riched the country in this line of work. 
His son, who has worked under him for 
years, may be confidently expected to fol- 
low in his father’s footsteps. Mr. Salway 
will remain with the Cemetery Associa- 
tion, relieved of the heavier responsibili- 
ties he has carried so long. 
Lindsay J. Wells. 
In the decease of Lindsay J. Wells, the 
late general superintendent of Greenwood 
cemetery, Brooklyn, N. Y., one of the 
most accomplished men in the calling is 
taken away. He was born in Dublin, Ire- 
land, of English and Scotch parentage, 
Dec. 2, 1822, and after a thorough educa- 
tion, in which he was fitted for the profes- 
sion of Civil Engineering and a few years 
of practice in his profession, he came to 
America in 1848 and secured employ- 
ment as Civil Engineer and Surveyor in 
Greenwood cemetery. In its service the 
remainder of his life was passed, a period 
of 50 years, and from 1883 to 1892 he was 
general superintendent. After the latter 
date his health began to fail and he was 
retired to lighter service. He died on 
Sept. 5th., last, after years of constant suf- 
fering, and closed an exemplary Christian 
life. During the last years of his life, de- 
spite the painful illness he was suffering 
from, he prepared for the cemetery two 
large official Register maps drawn to a 
scale of 40 feet to the inch, each being a 
work of great detail, showing the 30,000 
lots and the numerous avenues, paths, 
vaults, etc., covering the 471; acres within 
the cemetery enclosure, all plotted with 
rare technical skill, and which, being 
completed just before his death was aptly 
called by a friend a “monument to his 
ability.” 
Mrs. Emily Cobean, secretary of the 
Delavan Cemetery Association, Delavan, 
111., is desirous of obtaining suggestions 
for an emblematic design that in connec- 
tion with flowers might be used at fun- 
erals of members of the Association. If 
any of our readers know of some appro- 
priate design Mrs. Cobean will be greatly 
obliged if they will communicate with her 
at above address. 
We take pleasure in acknowledging the 
receipt of an invitation to the Ninth An- 
nual Banquet of the Missouri Botanical 
Garden to the Florists, Nurserj men and 
Market Gardeners. The banquet was 
held at the Mercantile Club, St. Louis, on 
the evening of November 19, 1898. It 
will perhaps be remembered that the late 
Mr. Shaw, when he bequeathed his mag- 
nificent garden to the people with the 
means to ensure its growth and preserva- 
tion, he desired that the above banquet 
should be an annual occurence, to aid in 
promoting mutual good will and helpful 
interchange of ideas among those inter- 
ested in gardening and botany. 
The Hebrew Cemetery of the Dispersed 
of Judah at New Orleans has a woman 
sexton, the only one we know of except 
that it is reported that a woman holds 
such a position at Lewes, England. Mrs. 
Elizabeth Donnell Mabel is the sexton of 
the New Orleans cemetery above men- 
tioned, and was appointed to the office 
after the death of her husband, the former 
sexton, last year. During a long illness, 
this wife had attended so thoroughly to 
her husband’s duties, that at his demise, 
the large majority of the trustees voted to 
retain the wife as sexton, and it was so ar- 
ranged. She lives with her small family 
in a neat cottage at the rear of the grounds 
and appears to be giving entire satisfac- 
tion, fulfilling the various duties promptly 
and efficiently. 
The 38th Annual Meeting of the Indi- 
ana Horticultural Society will be held in 
Indianapolis, Ind., December 6-8, 1898. 
An interesting and instructive program 
has been arranged. Among the papers to 
be read are: Report of Committee on Se- 
lection of Site for Experimental Orchard; 
Plant Growing with Commercial Ferti- 
lizers, Mr. Stuart, Lafayette; An En- 
larged Forest Area, A Necessity to the 
State, J. P. Brown, Connersville; Should 
Forestry be Made a Part of the Courses 
of Instruction in our Agricultural Col- 
leges? Prof. B. E. Fernow, Ithaca, N. 
Y.; The Relation of Forests to Drouths 
and Floods, Prof. W. R. Lazenby, Col- 
umbus, O.; Experimental Horticulture, 
Prof. John Craig, Ames, la. There will 
be a flower and fruit show for which prem- 
iums are offered. 
We should like to see the question 
taken up, which has been before suggested, 
of listing the most available trees and 
shrubs native to Indiana, which might be 
successfully used in street, park and cem- 
etery planting, with particulars of charac- 
ter, habit and possibilities. 
California is pieparing to establish an 
experiment station and school of instruc- 
tion in the grafting and planting of vines. 
The Horticultural Society of Southern 
Illinois holds its annual meeting at Van- 
dalia, III., Nov. 29-30 to Dec. 1st. 
RECEIVED. 
Program and Premium List of 38th 
Annual Meeting of the Indiana Horticul- 
tural Society, to be held in Indianapolis, 
Ind., December 6-8, 1898. 
Botanical Society of America. The 
origin of Gymnosperms and the Seed 
Habit. By John M. Coulter, Ph. D., 
University of Chicago. 
The Western New York Horticultural 
Society. Proceedings of the Forty-third 
Annual Meeting, held at Rochester, N. 
Y., January 26-27, 1898. 
Prospect Hill Cemetery, Omaha, Neb., 
By-Laws, Rules and Regulations. 
Charter, Rules regulating Lots and 
Rules for visitors of the Lexington Ceme- 
tery Co., Lexington, Ky., 1898. 
Maine Agricultural Experiment 
Station, University of Maine. 
Bulletin No. 45, October 1898. Ferti- 
lizer Inspection. This is the second 
of the Bulletins on the Inspection of 
Fertilizers for 1898. The bulletin is- 
sued in March contained the analyses 
of the samples received from the 
manufacturers. The present bulletin 
contains the analyses of the samples 
collected in the open market by the 
inspector. 
Annual Report of the Department of 
Public Works, City of Pittsburgh, 1897. 
Annual Report of Forest Park Ceme- 
tery, Troy, N. Y., together with a num- 
ber of photographs, maps, etc., of grounds. 
Copiously illustrated with half tones. 
“Tenochtitlan: Its Site Identified.” 
Paper presented to the Archaeological In- 
stitute of America, by Rev. Arthur How- 
ard Noll. 
Souvenir of the Phipps Conservatory, 
Schenley Park, on the occasion of the 27th 
Triennial Conclave, Pittsburgh, Pa., Oct. 
10-15, 1898. 
Revised List of Premiums offered by 
the Horticultural Society of Chicago, to 
be awarded at the Annual Fall Exhibition, 
Chicago, Nov. 8-12, 1898. 
From David Grinton, Supt., of Oak 
Grove cemetery, Delaware, O., photo- 
graphs of choice views in that cemetery. 
