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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. 
Owing to the annoying disappointment 
in not receiving the stenographic tran- 
script of the Omaha proceedings until 
some time in December last, 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 b >ok will be mailed at rate of 50c. 
per copy. Please remit with order and 
acknowledge receipt of book. 
Frank Enrich , Sec. & Treas. 
604 Union Trust Bldg., Detroit, Mich. 
A meeting of the Boston Garden- 
er:/ and Florists’ Clubs, was held at 
Horticultural Hill, February 7th, Prof. 
Wm. P. Brooks of the M.issichusetts 
Agricultur.d College delivered an address 
on “What Plants Feed Upon and How to 
Feed Them. - ’ 
Mr. John G. Barker is now located at 
South Bend, Ind., where he is about to 
develop a park for the South Bend Trac- 
tion Co. 
The two last lectures of the season of 
the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, 
at Horticultural Hall, Boston, will be 
Market Gardening, March 11, and Horti- 
culture in Japan, March 8. 
Oueen Victoria conferred the order of 
Knighthood upon William Turner This- 
elton Dyer, Esq., Director of the Royal 
Gardens at Kew, who has just been made 
an ordinary member of the second class, 
or Knight Commander of the Most Dis- 
tinguished Order of St. Michael and St. 
George. The Gardeners' Chronicle says 
the honor conferred is timely and appro- 
priate, as it coincides with the completion 
of the great Temperate house in the Royal 
Gardens. Another change which has oc- 
curred is that Mr. J. G. Baker has retired 
from the post of Curator of the Herbar- 
ium in accordance with the regulations 
relating to age laid down by the Civil 
Service Commissioners. It is believed 
that Mr. Hemsley will take up Mr. Baker's 
duties. 
American Park and Out-door Art Asso- 
ciation. Second Report, Minneapolis, 
Minn., June 22-24., 1898. This report con - 
tains the full proceedings of the conven- 
tion held in Minneapolis last year, and in 
addition thereto the Constitution, By-laws 
and other information connected with this 
timely association. The pamphlet of 164 
pages presents within its covers a mass of 
information and instructive suggestion in- 
valuable in this time of social progress. 
Many of the papers bear directly on 
phases of every day life, as regards the re- 
lations of man to nature, the inculcating 
into the minds of the young an under- 
standing and love for those national ob- 
jects which affords such relief from the 
monotory of every day cares — trees and 
flowers, and the possibilities to be acquired 
by enlightened work in the promotion of 
art out-of doors. Membership in the 
association is optn to all interested in the 
work, and the next convention to be held 
in Detroit is likely to still further empha- 
size the claims of the association upon the 
community for s) mpathetic interest and 
support in the great work of improving 
our na ural surroundings. 
The Metric System. Published by the 
Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and 
Insurance Co., Hartford, Conn. Pocket 
size 3j4 ,, x sheepskin, postpaid 
$1.25: leather, printed on bond paper 
gilt edges, ¥1.50. 
This very handy little volume is a val- 
uable labor saver and reference book, in 
all ways where the necessity of dealing 
with the meter as a unit of measurement 
is concerned. Its mission is well expressed 
in its preface: “The metric system of 
weights and measures is used so univer- 
sally in foreign books and periodicals, 
that much time is consumed, and no little 
annoyance incurred by the American 
reader, in translating these units into 
their English and American equivalents, 
by the aid of any of the reduction tables 
that have yet been pub ished. It there- 
fore occurred (to the publisher) that a 
handy pocket volume, for facilitating com- 
parisons of this kind, might be accept- 
able to engineers and scientific workers 
generally.” The little book contains 196 
pages and opens with a discussion of the 
diversity of systems in use a history of the 
meter, and units derived from the meter. 
The bulk of the book consists ol tables, 
giving the interchange betweenour stand- 
ards of measurements and metrical val- 
ues and vice versa, carried out to a rea- 
sonable decimal. The question of adopt- 
ing the meter as a standard in this coun- 
try has been agitated a number of yeais. 
but we see less reason for it to day than 
when the subject was first broached. It 
would undoubtedly be a great convenience 
to adapt on of our own standards to me- 
trical expansion, if concerted action were 
taken to compulsorily legalize such a 
movement, but although we have had a 
practical apprenticeship in metrical 
measurements in France and else- 
where, we still retain the opinion that it 
would be preferable to adopt a unit of our 
own, inviting other countries to study it, 
than to attempt so radical and from a cer- 
tain standpoint unnecessary 1 evolution, 
as the introduction of the meter would en- 
tail our local conditions This view does 
not detract an itoa from our opinion of 
the little v T ork before us, which will be 
found to be a welcome help, of frequent 
service to the intelligent. 
RECEIVED. 
City of Cambridge, (Mass.) Park De- 
partment. Annual Reports 1898. Illus- 
trated with a number of photogravures. 
Sixty-seventh Annual Report, Mount 
Auburn Cemetery, Boston, Mass. 
Annual Report of the Park Commis- 
sioners of the City of Taunton, Mass., for 
year ending Nov. 30, 1898. Illustrated 
with half tones. 
Cornell University Agricultural 
Experiment Station, Ithaca, N. Y. 
Bulletin 156. Third Report on Potato 
Culture By I. P. Roberts and L. A. 
Clinton. 
Bulletin 157. The Grape Vine flea- 
beetle. By W. V. Slingerland. 
Bulletin 158. An inquiry concerning 
the source of Gas and Taint produc- 
ing Bacteria in cheese curd. By V. 
A. Moore and A. R. Ward. 
Bulletin 159. An effort to help the 
Farmer. The Fifth Report to the 
Commissioner of Agriculture of Pro- 
gress of Work under the Nixon Bill 
to promote the extension of Agricul- 
tural Knowledge. 
Bulletin 160. January 1899. Hints on 
Rural School Grounds. By L, H. 
Bailey. 
Bulletin 161. January 1899. Annual 
Flowers. By G. N. Lauman and L. 
H. Bailey. 
University of Maine Agricultural 
Experiment Station. Orono. Me. 
Bulletin 47. Wheat offals sold in Maine 
in 1898. 
Bulletin 48. Feeding Stuff Inspection. 
Schedule of Prizes offered by the Massa- 
chusetts Horticultural Society for the year 
1899. Whh Rules and Regulations, gen- 
eral and special. 
Report of Park Commission. Canton, 
O. Comprising a Brief History of Can- 
ton Parks copiously illustrated with half 
tone views. Courtesy of F. M. Reed, sup- 
erintendent of yarks. 
A package of Ward’s Celebrated Ferti- 
lizer for pot plants and flowers has been 
