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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. 
The Twelfth Annual Convention will 
be held the coming fall at Omaha, Neb. 
The Park and Out'Door Art As' 
sociation. 
JOHN B. CASTLEMAN, Louisville, Ky., 
President, 
L. E. HOLDEN, Cleveland, O., 
Vice-President. 
WARREN H. MANNING, Tremont Building, 
Boston, Mass. Secy, and Treas. 
The next meeting of the Association 
will be held at Minneapolis, Minn., June 
23, 1898. 
^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. 
Mr. Willis N. Rudd, Superintendent of 
Mt. Greenwood cemetery and secretary of 
the Chicago Horticultural Society, is now 
editor of The American Florist, in which 
capacity he succeeds Mr. G. L. Grant, 
who has started a new journal in the same 
field, called The Florists' Review. 
Sunday Funerals. 
Mr. J. C. Uix, superintendent and secre- 
tary of the Riverside Cemetery, Cleve- 
land, O., is working to the end of obtain- 
ing the consent of the trustees to a change 
in the rules of that cemetery, whereby 
further interments on Sunday will be 
prevented, and all bodies, not dying of a 
contagious disease, brought to the ceme- 
tery on that day, shall be placed in the 
public vault; and in the event of the body 
being buried on the following day, in 
that case the use of the vault to be free of 
charge. Mr. Dix would like to hear from 
superintendents who may know of, or who 
have tried such a rule, as to their expe- 
rience of its workings. 
“Garden and Forest.” 
The discontinuance of such an ably 
edited and every way worthy publication 
as Garden and Forest at the close of its 
tenth year, for lack of proper support is, to 
say the least, exceedingly to be regretted. 
Conducted on the highest plane of digni- 
fied journalism, an ardent advocate of all 
that was elevating in landscape and mu- 
nicipal art, and an undisputed authority 
on forestry and! horticulture, it command- 
ed the admiration of lovers of the causes 
it espoused, and should have received the 
compensation it deserved. Prof Sargent 
and his co-workers on Garden and Forest 
may be congratulated on the good work 
accomplished by their efforts. The peo- 
ple have been shown in a manner becom- 
ing the object desired that there is a vast 
amount of necessary and valuable knowl- 
edge in the study and practical use of the 
plant life, so lavishly offered at nature’s 
hand. 
Mr. S. P. Clayton, Supt. , of St. John 
Rural cemetery, St. John, N. B., was the 
recipient of an address and Xmas gift of 
fur head gear, gauntlets, etc., presented 
by the employees, lot owners, funeral 
directors, etc., who thus signified their 
appreciation of his personality and efforts 
in behalf of the cemetery. The improve- 
ment in this burial place, due to the ef- 
forts of the president, Mr. J. W. Ruel, and 
his superintendent have been most marked. 
A late issue of the Embalmers Monthly 
contains an editorial touching the con- 
ventions of the American Association of 
Cemetery Superintendents and the Na- 
tional Association of Funeral Directors 
which are proposed to be held at the same 
time at Omaha this year, and to be fol- 
lowed by a joint trip to the Yellowstone 
Park. The Society of American Florists 
may also hold its annual convention at the 
same time. During the meetings it has 
beensuggested that a joint session to dis- 
cuss matters of mutual interest would be 
valuable. 
The annual meeting of the Illinois State 
Horticultural Society was held at Spring- 
field, 111 ., December 28-30, 1897. Among 
the papers read were: “The Value of Cow 
Peas as a Fertilizer,'’ “Soil Management 
of Orchards,” “Pruning of Orchards,” “Po- 
tato Culture,” “Small Fruits on the 
Farm,” “Cultivation and Care of Bearing 
Orchards,” “Co-operative Shipping of 
Fruits,” “The San Jose Scale and Other 
Insects in Illinois,” “How to Convert In- 
ferior Products of the Orchard Into Pay- 
ing Products,” “Woman’s Life on the 
Farm,” “Better Foods and Better Meth- 
ods in Our Homes,” “Spraying for Insect 
Pests and Fungii,” “The Farmer’s Gar- 
den,” etc. Nearly 100 premiums were of- 
fered for fruits and vegetables. The se- 
cretary of the association is Henry M. Dun- 
lop, Savoy, 111 . 
The winter months afford an opportun- 
ity for work upon the cemetery records 
that are often neglected during the busier 
seasons in cemeteries where much of this 
work devolves upon one person. Nothing 
is more important in the affairs of a well 
conducted cemetery than a comprehen- 
sive set of records and in fact no cemetery 
is too insignificant to treat the records 
with indifference. The system of records 
introduced some years ago by the pub- 
lisher of Park and Cemetery have 
been adopted in several hundred cemeter- 
ies and are very highly endorsed. Speci- 
men pages of the Record of Interments 
and Lot Book will be sent on application 
to R. J. Haight, Chicago. 
The first report of the Park and Out- 
Door Art Association, has just come to 
hand. It contains a full account of the 
Proceedings of the Association at its first 
convention held in Louisville, Ky., May 
20th. and 21st. of last year, of which a re- 
port was given in these columns. The 
first meeting showed a remarkable unan- 
imity of sentiment on the advisability of 
organizing such an association, and the at- 
tendance included many of the most 
prominent landscape and park authorities 
m the country. The papers, read at the 
meeting, are published in full and include : 
“The True Purpose of a Large Public 
Park,” by John C. Olmsted, Brookline, 
Mass.; “'The Use and Management o 
Public Parks,” by Andrew Cowan, Louis- 
ville, Ky.; “Water Garden Decorations,” 
by James Gurney, St, Louis, Mo.; “Park 
and Municipal Art,” by Harry W. Jones,” 
Minneapolis, Minn.; “Rural Parks in a 
Prairie State,” by Thomas H. Macbride, 
Iowa City, la.; “Parks as Investments and 
Educators,” by L, E. Holden, Cleveland, 
O. ; “Park Design and Park Planting,” by 
Warren H. Manning, Boston, Mass.; “Or- 
namental Planting for Public Parks and 
Grounds,” by Wm. S. Egerton, Albany, 
N. Y. ; “The Metropolitan Park System 
of Boston,” by Wm. T. Pierce, Boston, 
Mass.; “Park Development in the City of 
New Orleans,” by Lewis Johnson, 
New Orleans, La. All details relating to 
the formation of so important an associa 
tion were carefully considered and are 
given in the report, as well as discussions 
of the papers and the motions adopted 
looking to the permanent establishment of 
the organization and its next convention 
to be held in Minneapolis, Minn., in June. 
This year marks the sixtieth anniver- 
sary of the establishment of the well- 
known enterprise of Henry A. Dreer, 
Philadelphia, and it is signalized by the 
distribution of a prettily designed and il- 
lustrated pamphlet, giving the history of 
the concern, which is full of interest as 
showing what persistent energy in a well 
chosen line of work will accomplish. The 
handsome and voluminous catalogue of 
seeds, plants, and other features of this 
immense business, accompany the above 
brochure, and the combination invites a 
study of their contents. 
RECEIVED. 
“A short talk about Modern Cemeter- 
ies. ” A folder containing map, prices 
and other information by Woodside Ceme- 
tery Association, Middletown, O. 
We are indebted to Mr. Sid. J. Hare, 
superintendent of Forest Hills cemetery, 
Kansas City, Mo., for an interesting col- 
lection of photographs, and matter con- 
nected with his cemetery, which we shall 
make use of at an early date. 
From R. G. Rau, superintentent, sheet 
of views of Krug Park, St. Joseph, Mo. 
From Department of Publicity; Omaha, 
Neb., large plate containing birds eye 
view of the Trans-Mississippi and Inter- 
national Exposition, and the principal 
buildings in course of erection. The ex- 
position will open in June next and con- 
tinue until November. Also illustrated 
and descriptive pamphlet, containing a 
large amount of statistics concerning the 
exposition and the city of Omaha. 
From E. A. Moulton, superintendent 
Blossom Hill cemetery, Concord, N. H., 
photographs of the White mausoleum and 
a handsome view of the landscape in that 
cemetery. 
Rev. Newton M. Mann of Omaha, Neb. , 
is the author of an interesting discourse 
entitled, Kindness to Animals in the 
Christian World, the evolution of a senti- 
ment. It was written in response to a re- 
quest by the American Humane Associa- 
tion for an occasional sermon on Kind- 
ness to Animals. H. S. Mann, Omaha, 
will supply the pamphlet at 5 cents a copy 
or 25 cents a dozen . 
