20 $ 
PARK AND CEMETERY. 
Association of American Ceme^ 
tery Superintendents. 
ARTHUR W. ROBERT, ‘'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. 
Copies of the Modern Cemetery Wanted. 
Prof. L. H. Bailey, Professor of Horti- 
culture, Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y., 
desires to obtain the following copies of 
The Modern Cemetery: Vol. 1 , Nos. 
1, 2, 3, 10, 11 ; Vol. II., Nos, 1, 3, 4, 5, 9; 
Vol. Ill, Nos. 1, 10, 12. Should any of 
our readers have any of the above copies 
to spare, Prof. Bailey will be glad to hear 
from them. 
A writer in the Boston Transcript says 
that Mr. Walter Rowlands, of Allston, is 
to publish a collection of Mr. Howland 
Shaw Chandler’s photographs of curious 
old gravestones in and about Boston. The 
photographs are already made; they in- 
clude those of Major Thomas Savage 
(1682), Nicholas Upsall (1666), Deacon 
Jacob Eliot (1693), Mary Goose (1690), 
Benjamin Thompson (1714), and a great 
many others. The collection will be val- 
uable not only from a historical point of 
view, but from an artistic one. The col- 
lection of letterings will be a most inter- 
esting one. How well, and apparently 
how instinctively, some of those old 
gravestone markers understood the art of 
lettering! It is to be hoped that Mr. 
Rowlands will receive sufficient encour- 
agement to warrant him in publishing the 
collection. 
Adam R. Smith. 
It is sad to record the death by his own 
hand of Adam R. Smith, for 28 years 
president of the Oakwood Cemetery as- 
sociation, Troy, N. Y.,and up to a year 
ago, since 1874, cashier of the Union Na- 
tional Bank of that city. He was 72 years 
age, was a bachelor, and lived alone with- 
in the Oakwood avenue entrance ot the 
cemetery in an ivy grown residence, among 
the plants and flowers which he loved. 
His housekeeper, who lived in a house 
near by, had left him on the evening of 
the 13th of November, as usual, and in 
the morning in the course of the usual 
early morning work, discovered Mr. Smith 
dead in a chair, he having put a bullet 
through his heart just previously. His 
work in the improvement of the cemetery 
was constant, and he possessed one of the 
choicest collections of orchids in the 
country. No motive is assigned for the 
deed, as his character had always been 
beyond question, but the infirmities of 
age had advanced rapidly in recent years, 
which may have unsettled his mental bal- 
ance. 
The mutations of time and fortune 
make truth oftimes stranger than fiction. 
A11 illustration of this is found in the case 
of Theodore Schluinig, once a well known 
landscape gardener, who died recently in 
the Hudson County Alms House, at Snake 
Hill, N. J., and was buried in Arlington 
Cemetery. Arlington, N. J., in the pau- 
pers’ section. He was once possessed of 
considerable propeity, which he lost in 
various enterprises, and became a wan- 
derer, returning to Arlington at intervals. 
He was born in Russia and claimed to 
have laid out the public girdens of St. 
Petersburg. In this country he designed 
Arlington Cemetery and Arlington Park, 
Arlington, N. J., and the fair grounds of 
Atlanta, Ga. He was a highly educated 
man. 
The library of Gottingen has a bible 
written on palm leaves. There are 5,373 
pages, each made of a single leaf. 
Things not to be smiled at in them- 
selves may take on a humorous aspect 
through the manner of their expression. 
An English paper says. An old country 
sexton, in showing visitors around the 
churchyard, used to stop at a certain tomb- 
stone and say, “This ’ere is the tomb of 
Tummas ’Ooper an’ ’is eleven woives.” 
One occasion a lady said, “Eleven? Dear 
me! that’s rather a lot, isn’t it?” The 
old man looked at her gravely, and re- 
plied, “Well, mum, yer see, it war an 
’obby of 'is’n. ” 
Forestry in Minnesota. Published 
by the Minnesota Forestry Associa- 
tion. Preparedby Samuel B. Green, 
Professor of Horticulture and For- 
estry in the University of Minnesota. 
This a work of over 300 pages, in paper 
covers, which deserves to be bound in 
more permanent form. In these days of 
reaction against the destruction in the 
past of our forests, when every effort is 
being made to create a permanent senti- 
ment favorable to the care and preserva- 
tion of our tree life, such a work is of in- 
calculable benefit. It comprises two parts; 
the first treats of elementary forestry, in 
which a fund of educational matter in a 
remarkably clear manner is presented. 
Part II particularizes the trees of Minne- 
sota, which of course in a large way ap- 
plies to the trees of other like situations. 
This part is profusely illustrated with di- 
agrams of the component parts of the 
trees, and the text is concise yet full of in- 
formation. On looking the work over, in 
convenience and style, it appeared to be 
just the vade-mecum we would desire to 
take along into the woods and practically 
study the trees described. We believe 
Prof. Green has given us a text book in- 
teresting alike to the student and the 
growing company of tree lovers. 
RECEIVED. 
Annual Report of the Smithsonian 
Institution for 1896. It contains 
reports of Executive Committee, ex- 
hibiting the financial affairs of the In- 
stitution; the report of the Secretary, 
giving an account of the operations and 
conditions of the Institution for the 
year ending J uly 30, 1896, with statistics 
of exchanges, etc.; and general appen- 
dix, comprising a selection of memoirs 
of interest to collaborators and corres- 
pondents of the Institution, teachers 
and others engaged in the promotion of 
knowledge. Among the scientific pa- 
pers in the appendix of particular in- 
terest to our readers are : “Color Pho- 
tography by Means of Body Colors, and 
Mechanical Color Adaptation in Na- 
ture,” by Otto Wiener; “ The Physical 
Geography of Australia,” by J . P. 
Thomson, and ••The Biologic Rela- 
tions Between Plants and Ants,” by Dr. 
Heim. 
Proceedings of the 22nd annual meet- 
ing of the Georgia State Horticultural 
Society, held at Americus, Ga., August 
3-4, last. The report contains an inter- 
esting discussion of the Stringfellow 
method of root pruning and treating trees 
in transplanting, etc., and papers on the 
San Jose Scale and other pests, and their 
remedies, by W. M. Scott, State Ento- 
mologist of Georgia, with discussions. 
There are also reports from various com- 
mittees. 
Annual Report of the Park Department 
of the City of Cincinnati, 1897. Illustra- 
ted with half tones. 
Cornell University Agricultural 
Experiment Station, Ithaca, N. Y. 
Bulletin 152, October, 1898. Studies 
m Milk Secretion. Henry H. Wing 
and Leioy Anderson. 
Bulletin 153, October, 189S. Impres- 
sions of Our Fruit Growing Indus- 
tries. L. H. Bailey. 
Missouri Botanical Garden. Ninth 
Announcement Concerning Garden 
Pupils. November, 1898. 
Public Parks for Iowa Towns. A pa- 
per read before the first annual conven- 
tion of the League of Iowa Municipali- 
ties, at Marshalltown, Iowa, Oct. 12-13. 
By Prof. Thos Id. McBride. 
catalogues. 
The Storrs & Harrison Co., Painesville, 
O. Bulbs, plants and seeds. 
The care of Plants in the Home and 
Garden. A handsomely illustrated 
pamphlet by The Rosary Flower Co., 
New York City. 
