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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
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. 
^Publishei^ 
Park Commissioners and Cemetery 
T rustees 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. 
Owing to the annoying disappointment 
in not receiving the stenographic tran- 
script of the Omaha proceedings until 
some time in December lust, the printed 
report was correspondingly delayed. 
The same is now ready and may be 
procured at rate of 20c. per copy. 
We wish to call attention again to the 
book Modern Cemeteries, which 
should be in the office of every cemetery, 
and in the library of every cemetery 
official. 
The book will be mailed at rate of 50c. 
per copy. Please remit with order and 
acknowledge receipt of book. 
Frank Enrich, Sec. & Treai. 
604 Union Trust Bldg., Detroit, Mich. 
In the November issue an item ap- 
peared stating that Mr. Salway had re- 
signed his position of Superintendent of 
Spring Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati, his 
son succeeding him. This information 
came from a number of press clippings, 
showing that the statement was quite 
generally distributed. It was a surprise, 
therefore, but a matter of sincere gratifi- 
cation to receive the following in a com- 
munication from Mr. Salway himself: “I 
desire to say that the statement is entirely 
without foundation. I have no thought 
of giving up ; in fact my duties are more 
numerous and press harder upon me with 
each succeeding year, and my health is 
perfect ; consequently there is no reason 
why I should resign.'’ Mr. Solway is one 
of the most successful cemetery superin- 
tendents in the Uuited States, and it is a 
pieasure to note that he will continue in 
the position that he has filled so creditably 
for many years. ■ 
Mr. George H. Scott, formerly Civil 
Engineer and Superintendent of Rosehill 
Cemetery, Chicago, now occupies a simi- 
lar position in Elmwood Cemetery, Chi- 
cago, having severed his connection with 
the former association. This new ceme- 
tery comprises some 375 acres situated 
eight miles from the City Hall, and it has 
been in course of preparation for two years 
past. It is to be conducted on modern 
lines, and many improvements are prom- 
ised. 
Mr. John Butts has been appointed sup- 
erintendent of Oakland Cemetery, San- 
dusky, O., to succeed Mr. Fred Philby, 
he having refused to again accept the 
office at the salary fixed by the Board 
under the new rules adopted some time 
since. 
John H. Damuth, Assistant Superin- 
tendent, Woodland Cemetery, Dayton, 
O., who expired suddenly a few weeks 
since while in adown town store, had held 
the position for twenty years. He had the 
confidence of all who knew him and was 
much respected. 
Major R. C. Taylor, who has been Sup- 
erintendent of ihe National Cemetery in 
Fineville, La., since President Cleveland’s 
last administration, is now in charge of 
the National Cemetery at Natchez, Miss. 
He is succeeded by J. B. Erin, of Mis- 
souri. This is in the nature of a promo- 
tion for Major Taylor, the pay being 
more, as the station to which he has been 
assigned is a first grade. 
A bill granting to the city of Saginaw, 
Mich., the privilege of beautifying and 
using as a public park such part of ihe 
post office property as may be deemed 
unnecessary for post offices has been 
passed. 
Mr. John A. McNear, Superintendent 
Cypress Hill Cemetery, Petaluna, Calif., 
is a strong advocate of burial reform. He 
writes : — “ Burial reforms should be advo- 
cated. Wicker work receptacles, and 
‘ earth to earth’ mixed with a little quick- 
lime, is the best cremation and purifier — 
economical and sanitary. The present 
custom is to put bodies in (pickle) a strong 
box supposed to be tight, which tends to 
arrest nature’s work of ‘ earth to earth ’ 
from whence we came. 1 would suggest 
doing away with the old coffins and boxes, 
and return to the ancient custom.” 
RECEIVED. 
The Lord & Burnham Co., Horticultural 
Architects and Builders and Manufact- 
urers of Heating Apparatus and Green- 
house Fittings, of New York City and 
Irvington on-Hudson, have recently is- 
sued two handsome catalogues, the one 
containing half tone illustrations of a 
large number of horticultural buildings 
constructed by them ; the other, illus- 
trations, descriptions and prices of the 
heating and ventilating apparatus, fit- 
tings and various appurtenances manu- 
factured by the firm. The Lord & 
Burnham Co. have gained a wide repu- 
tation in this line of special work, and 
are the inventors and patentees of a 
great number of its valuable details. 
These two catalogues afford a large 
amount of information on greenhouse 
work, and readers contemplating con- 
servatory or greenhouse construction 
should write for them. 
Annual Report of the Trustees of 
Oakland Cemetery Association, St. 
Paul, Minn. 
Cornell University Agricultural 
Experiment Station, Ithaca, N. Y. 
Bulletin 15a. Tables for Computing 
Rations for Farm Animals. By J. L- 
Stone. 
Bulletin 155. Second Report on the 
Effects of Keiosene on Foliage. By 
H. P. Gould. 
Maine Agricultural Experiment 
Station, Orono, Me. 
Bulletin No. 46. Ornamental Plants 
for Maine. By M. W. Munson. The 
ornamentation of rural homes is of im- 
portance to the people of Maine, not 
only as a means of adding to the com- 
fort and pleasure of the home life, but 
as an attraction for the increasing num- 
bers of summer visitors and as means 
of enhancing the value of farm prop- 
erty. Prof. Munson has given a list of 
trees, shrubs and herbaceous plants 
which have been grown at the Univer- 
sity of Maine and which have proven 
hardv there. Many of the finest shrubs 
of Massachusetts are unfitted to the 
rigors of this climate. Any one intend- 
ing to plant ornamentals should consult 
this bulletin before deciding what to 
plant. 
Legislation, Federal, State and Cana- 
dian. A Compilation of the Laws Regu- 
lating the Growth, Sale and Transpor- 
tation of Nursery Stock. Together 
with the Americanand Canadian Tariff 
Regulations. By courtesy of Harlan 
P. Kelsey, Boston, Mass. 
From T. S. Parks, superintendent Grove 
Hill Cemetery, Oil City, Pa., three 
snap shots of interesting memorials. 
catalogues. 
Kelsey’s Hardy American Plants and 
Carolina Mountain f lowers. Also some 
information about the root Ginseng, 
and Galax Leaves. Harlan P. Kelsey, 
Boston, Mass. 
A description of the Rocky Mountain Ev- 
ergreens, adapted to the East and West, 
and tested and approved, together with 
Shrubsand Flowers. Written by C. S. 
Harrison. York, Neb. 
The Bridgeman Annual Catalogue of 
Seeds. Diamond Anniversary Edition. 
Alfred Bridgeman, New York. 
