PARK AND CEMETERY, 
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Association of American Ceme^ 
tery Superintendents. 
G. W CRELSY, "Harmony Grove,” 
Salem, Mass.. President. 
AR THUR W. HOBERT, "Lakewood," 
Minneapolis, Minn., Vice President. 
K. EURICH, Woodward Lawn, Detroit, Mich- 
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. 
A communication has been received 
from the Park Commissioners of Paterson, 
N. J., emphatically denying that political 
considerations had anything whaterer to 
do with the resignation of Mr. Otto Bu- 
seck, their late Park Superintendent. The 
overcrowded condition of our columns 
prevent fuller attention to the matter in 
this issue. 
The annual report of the Tree Planting 
and Fountain Society of Brooklyn, N. Y., 
for 1897 makes a volume of some 140 pages. 
The work the society has accomplished, 
and the good results that are in progress, 
demand our warmest endorsement, and we 
most urgently advise a study of its meth- 
ods and objects by all who realize the im- 
portance ol such influences with a view to 
practical application where needed. 
Mr. T. Herbert Letson succeeds Mr. 
John Franklin as cemetery superintendent 
of the town of Hudson, N. Y. 
Mr. J. B. Erion of Omaha, Neb., who 
some time since was appointed a superin- 
tendent of National cemeteries, has been 
assigned to Mound City, III. 
A meeting of the stockholders of Union 
cemetery, Dickson, Tenn., resulted in the 
election of a board of women directors. 
This practically throws the management 
of this cemetery into the hands of the La- 
dies' Cemetery Association. 
REPORTS, ETC., RECEIVED. 
From Henry F. Johnson, Eighth An- 
nual Report of the Cemetery Commis- 
sioners of Wildwood cemetery, Winches- 
ter, Mass., to Dec. 31, 1897. 
Essex County, New Jersey Department 
of Parks. Second Annual Report of the 
Board of Commissioners, 1897. This most 
complete report, lavishly illustrated and 
with numerous maps, gives one a very 
broad acquaintance with the inception 
and progress of this wisely ordered plan 
of a comprehensive and adequate county 
park system. It must ever remain a monu- 
ment of the sagacity and far-sightedness 
of those intelligent citizens, among whom 
and taking a very active part in its pro- 
motion, was Mr. Fred W. Kelsey, the New 
York nurseryman, whose enthusiastic love 
of nature and extensive business know- 
ledge with that of his colleagues, success- 
fully advocated their ideas, grafting them 
upon the intelligence of their fellow citi- 
zens with the results well accomplished. 
In an early issue we shall give some illus- 
trations and details of this system. 
Annual Report of the Commissioners 
of the North Burial Ground, Providence, 
R. I., for the year 1897. Illustrated. 
Death to Dandelions. 
A few drops of gasoline applied to the 
crown of the plant will effectually destroy 
it without injury to the lawn. Wm. F. 
Jenson, Supt., Glenwood cemetery, Man- 
kato, Minn. 
On the question of ornamenting home 
grounds, the Maine Agricultural Experi- 
ment Station, Oiono, has issued Bulletin 
No. 42. A constantly recurring problem 
in New England is. How shall we keep 
the boys on the farm? The answer is not 
easy, but doubtless more people are driven 
from the farm by its isolation, loneliness 
and lack of tasteful surroundings than by 
any other single cause. If the boys and 
girls go away to the academy for a time 
and get a taste of village or city life, the 
contrast when they return to the old farm 
is often too strong. No class of people has 
better opportunities for making the home 
pleasant and attractive than the farmer. 
In this bulletin Professor Munson has 
given concise directions for improving the 
surroundings of the home. It includes a 
description of the location of a house, the 
making and care of lawns, suggestions as 
to what, where and how to plant, and a 
list of the more valuable ornamental trees 
and shrubs found in Maine. It will be 
sent to all who apply to the Agricultural 
Experiment Station, Orono, Me. In writ- 
ing please mention this paper. 
Rosenberger’s Law Monthly for Febru- 
ary, published at Chicago, contains infor- 
mation on how to get a copyright and on 
the study of Law at home. It is replete 
with useful legal matter of every day ser- 
vice to everybody. 
CATALOGUES. 
Trade Catalogues Received. R. Doug- 
las & Sons, Waukegan, III., hardy and 
rare evergreen and shade trees. — Thomas 
Meehan & Sons, Germantown, Philadel- 
phia. — D. Hill, Dundee, 111 ., the Dundee 
Nurseries, Evergreens. Ornamentals, etc. 
— Mrs. Theodosia Shepherd, Ventura, 
Calif. Seeds and Novelties from the Paci- 
fic Coast. — J. C. Vaughan, Chicago. 
Shrubs, Seeds, Fertilizers, Tools, etc. — 
Samuel C. Moon, The Morrisville Nurser- 
ies, Morrisville, Pa., Ornamental Trees, 
Shrubs, Plants, etc. — Wm. H. Harrison 
& Sons, Wyomanock Nurseries. Lebanon 
Springs, N. Y. , Trees, Hardy Shrubs, etc. 
—List of Plants offered by Pinehurst Nur- 
series, Pinehurst, N. C. Spring of 1898. 
— Watkins General Retail Catalogue of 
Seeds, Trees and Plants. S. L. Watkins, 
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Has your cemetery a perpetual care 
fund? If not, and you care for the future 
of your cemetery start one now. An in- 
teresting article on this subject with forms, 
etc., will appearinPARK andCemeterv 
tor April. 
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Have you adopted the lawn plan in your 
cemetery? It is adapted to small as well 
as large cemeteries. Continous lawns are 
not only more pleasing to the eye than 
the old plan of isolated lots, but are more 
easily cared for hence less expensive. A 
plan of a five acre cemetery laid out on 
the lawn plan will be illustrated in Park 
and Cemetery for April. Additions to 
old cemeteries should be made on the 
lawn plan. 
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Are the records of your cemetery being 
properly kept? This is required by law 
in some states, in others it is only indiffer- 
ently attended to. A simple system of 
Cemetery Records that can be keptbyany 
one of ordinary intelligence is published 
by Park and Cemetery. It has been 
adopted in hundreds of cemeteries large 
and small. Specimen pages will be sent 
free on application. 
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Do you contemplate making improve- 
ments in your cemetery about which you 
desire information? If so do not hesitate 
to communicate with Park and Ceme- 
tery. Its mission is to disseminate such 
information as will assist in the general 
improvement of cemeteries as well as 
parks and streets. The most successful 
cemetery superintendents and landscape 
architects and gardeners in the country 
are regular contributors and will give ad 
vice on any subject allied with the inter- 
ests to which Park and Cemetery is 
devoted. 
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Enthusiasm is as essential in the work of 
the cemetery as in that of anything else 
where success is sought. One way to cre- 
ate interest in your local cemetery is to 
keep before your trustees, directors or 
other officers what is being done by other 
cemeteries. This is accomplished by ap- 
propriating a small sum for extra copies of 
Park and Cemetery. Special rates are 
made on three or more copies. A number 
of cemeteries make such an appropriation 
every year. If your cemetery has no fund, 
let ten or a dozen lot owners create one. 
Try it this year. 
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Send the publisher of Park and Ceme- 
tery the names and addresses of persons 
who would be interested in becoming sub- 
scribers. Sample copies will be sent them 
without charge. 
