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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, Woodward Lawn, Detroit, Mich. 
Secretary and Treasurer. 
The Twelfth Annual Convention will 
be held the coming fall at Omaha, Neb. 
The Park and OutvDoor 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. 
The Executive Committee of the Na- 
tional Association of Funeral Directors, 
which recently met in Washington. D. C., 
passed a resolution changing the date of 
the Annual Meeting, which this year is to 
be held at Omaha, Neb., from the second 
Wednesday in October to the first Wed- 
nesday of the month, namely October 15th. 
This action makes impossible the pro- 
posed joint session with the cemetery sup- 
erintendents and excursion to the Yellow- 
stone Park. 
Edward Carter succeeds Charles Drew 
as superintendent of Oakwoods cemetery, 
Chicago. 
Mr. Otto Buseck, superintendent, De- 
partment of Parks, Paterson, N.J.,has 
been compelled to resign. A stormy meet- 
ing of the Park Commissioners as re- 
ported in the press, suggests that a very 
low order of politics is the governing prin- 
ciple with Paterson’s Park Commissioners. 
The Douglas Nursery Company Wauke- 
gan, 111,, a short time since closed a three 
years’ contract with the United States 
government to furnish evergreen trees in 
large quantities. The government will 
plant young trees in the arid regions of 
the south, in Oklahoma, Texas, Arizona 
and elsewhere. 
Ex Gov. Morrill of Kansas once said 
that his ambition was to create in Kansas 
the largest orchard in the world and leave 
it as a monument to his memory. That 
hope is about to be realized, as he has 
turned his farm over to a man with the 
stipulation that 65.000 fruit trees, mostly 
apples, are to be planted there. 
RECEIVED. 
From Charles S. Childs, superintendent 
Annual Report of the Board of Cemetery 
Commissioners to City Council of Cam- 
bridge, Mass. Illustrated with half tone. 
Eighth Annual Report of the Park Com- 
missioners of the City of Paterson, N. J., 
for year ending March, 1897. Beautifully 
illustrated with half tone engravings. 
Annual Reports of the Directors of the 
Lafayette Cemetery, Philadelphia, for 
1896, 1897. 
The Sixty-sixth Annual Report of 
Mount Auburn Cemetery, Boston, Mass., 
January 1st, 1898. 
From Theo. Elsasser, superintendent, 
seven photographs of Westminster Ceme- 
tery, the new cemetery in the suburbs of 
Philadelphia, showing the improvements 
made during the past year. 
An excellent group of eight views sur- 
rounding a birds-eye view, mounted in 
map form, of the Lakeside cemetery of 
Buffalo. 
From Mr. Geo. S. Rhedemeyer, super- 
intendent, Views and Regulations of Har- 
leigh cemetery, Camden, N. J., adopted 
by the Trustees January, 1898. The 
pamphlet is beautifully illustrated with 
half tones. 
City of Cambridge, Mass. Park De- 
partment, Annual Reports for the year 
1897. Illustrated with maps and a number 
cf photogravure pictures. 
Hillside Cemetery Co., Philadelphia, 
Pa. Calendar comprising complete an- 
nual calendars from 1776 to 2000. With 
numerous views in the cemetery. 
University of Maine. Maine Agri- 
cultural Experiment Station. 
Bulletin No, 41. January, 1898. 
Dehorning Cows. 
Cornell University Agricultural 
Experiment Station, Ithaca, N. Y. 
Bulletin 142. January, 1898. The Cod- 
ling Moth. By M. V. Slingerland. 
catalogues. 
No. 2. Spring of 1898. Annual Cata- 
logue of The btorrs & Harrison Co., 
Painesville, O. 168 pages. Trees, Flow- 
ers, Vegetables and Seeds. 
Catalogue 8 A. Rare Seeds of the Rocky 
Mountains and Western United States. 
D. M. Andrews, Boulder, Colo. 
Wholesale Catalogue of Trees, Plants, 
Bulbs, Seeds, etc. Japanese Nursery, 272 
Boylston st., Boston, Mass. 
MissC. H. Lippincott, the Pioneer seeds- 
womari, Minneapolis, Minn., has issued a 
dainty seed catalogue, which can be had 
on application. 
Ellwanger & Barry’s Supplementary 
Catalogue, Novelties, etc., i8y8. Mount 
Hope Nurseries, Rochester, N. Y. This 
smaller catalogue of the well-known firm 
contains novelties and specialties among 
fruit trees and bushes; new and rare orna- 
mental trees; evergreens; ornamental 
shrubs; hardy plants and new roses of all 
classes. This catalogue may be had on 
application, and the firm needs no en- 
dorsement. 
A Modern Village. 
One of the important landscape crea- 
tions upon which Mr. Warren H. Man- 
ning, of Boston, acted as landscape archi- 
tect in charge’, is Pinehurst, a winter re- 
sort village of one hundred acres in ex- 
tent, situated in about the centre of the 
state of North Carolina. The site was a 
dry upland, made up of a succession o 
broad ridges and valleys gradually merg- 
ing into each other. The conditions im- 
posed, such as providing comfortable ac- 
commodations for winter visitors, and at- 
tractive landscape features to add zest to 
their residence, made careful study of the 
resources and possibilities of the neighbor- 
hood essential to a successful plan. The 
central feature and indeed the most prom- 
inent feature of the plan is the Village 
Green, really the heart of the village, upon 
which the principal buildings face, and 
about which, and on the streets radiating 
from it, the residences are located. The 
whole scheme was carried out under cir- 
cumstances that could not but yield good 
results, and is an example for others to 
follow. The purpose and character of the 
project was outlined by the proprietor; 
the plans were fixed upon and executed 
upon the grounds by the landscape archi- 
tects; suitable buildings for the various 
purposes were designed and constructed 
by the architects; water, sewer, lighting 
and transportation systems were designed 
and installed by competent engineers; 
and the representatives of these various 
professions in co operation with the town 
superintendent worked in harmony and 
produced an up-to-date winter resort. 
This is an example of village creation 
worthy of consideration. 
A French Insect Trap. 
A French agricultural magazine records 
one of the queer discoveries of the past 
season, by means of which gardens and 
lawns can be kept free of insects, or at 
least the number may be reduced to a 
notable degree. It is an insect trap, and 
this is the way to construct it. Bury a 
fairly large bell-shaped vessel in the earth, 
with the rim even with the surface. Put 
some water into it and an inverted flower 
pot into the water. On the flower pot put 
a napkin smeared with honey or molasses. 
Place another bell-jar over the whole 
thing and heap up earth around its edges, 
taking care to arrange a small opening for 
the insects to enter. The “bait” will at- 
tract insects from an incredibly large area, 
and when they have found their way into 
the trap very few will get out. 
Speaking of the Florida Palmetto tree 
an exchange says: It is a well known fact 
that some trees live to a great age, the oak, 
elm, cedar, hickory, etc., but the palmetto 
trees of the South, and particularly those 
along the Indian River, Fla., are really a 
curiosity for their long life. The older 
trees are gracefully straight about forty or 
fifty feet high, having a diameter of eight 
to ten inches, and so smooth that they 
look as if they had been shaved with a 
carpenter drawknife up to about three feet 
of the green spreading fan leaves, which 
form a top without a single branch. They 
are from three to five hundred years old, 
according to their height and are so tough, 
that they will bend almost to the ground 
in a gale of wind then spring back to their 
normal position again. A curious fact 
about the “cabbage palmetto,” as it is 
called, is that it grows only from the top, 
having a cabbage-like head which, when 
young, is a palatable food for man or 
beast, and if a rifle ball were to penetrate 
the centre of it, the tree would die. Any 
amount of hacking or girdling may be 
done to the trunk, however, without in- 
jury to the tree. 
