PARK AND CEMETERY, 
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Association of American Cemer 
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 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, i8y8. 
Park Commissioners and Cemetery 
trustees are requested to send us copies of 
their reports. 
The admonition in regard to mention- 
ing this journal when writing to advertis- 
ers, also conveys a still more important 
suggestion, which is: that those in whose 
interests PARK AND CEMETERY is pub- 
lished should make it a point to patronize 
the advertisers using its columns. This is 
a matter of reciprocity in common justice 
and fair business dealing. Park and 
Cemetery urges its readers to bear this 
in mind, and the mutual exchange of in- 
terests will be conducive to benefit all 
round. 
The Juniper Hill Cemetery corporation, 
Bristol, R. I., has appointed Robert A. 
Black superintendent of the cemetery to 
till the vacancy caused by the resignation 
of William Faulkner. Mr. Faulkner will 
remove to Pennsylvania. 
At the recent annual meeting of Dell 
Park Cemetery, Natick, Mass., N. B. 
Goodnow was elected president, in place 
of Uea. Wilson who retires on account 
of ill health. Other elections were: I. 
N. Hill, clerk; E. Clark, treasurer and 
trustee for seven years. Extensive im- 
provements are under way in the new 
grounds. 
John M. Hunter, for two years past in 
charge of Mr. H. Van Rensellaer Ken- 
nedy’s handsome grounds at Hemstead, 
Long Island, has been appointed superin- 
tendent of parks at Paterson, N. J., and 
assumed his duties on March 15th. Mr. 
1 1 unter is a man of many years experience, 
and the Park Commissioners of Pater- 
son feel happy over securing a man of Mr, 
Hunter’s abilities. 
John R. Johnson, at one time superin- 
tendent of parks at Paterson, N. J., but 
who resigned to accept a more lucrative 
position at the late Ogden Goelet’s sum- 
mer place at Newport, R. I., is now seek- 
ing a location near New York with a view 
to going into the commercial branch of 
the business for himself. 
received. 
Cornell University Agricultural 
Experiment Station, Ithaca, N. Y. 
Bulletin 144. Notes on Spraying and 
on the St. Jose Scale. By H. P. 
Gould. 
Bulletin 145. Some Important Pear 
Diseases. By B. M. Duggar. 
Ornamental Planting, for Cemeteries. 
By Edw. L. Raymond, B. S., Landscape 
Architect, Boston, Mass. This pamphlet 
condenses a large amount of information 
on the salient features of landscape work 
in the cemetery and the plant material 
available for the purpose. It also includes 
a long list of pleasing combinations for 
beds, borders and groups. 
Third Annual Report, Board of Public 
Works, City of Little Falls, N. Y. By 
courtesy of Stephen E. Babcock, City En- 
gineer. 
Eighteenth Annual Report of the Board 
of Park Commissioners of the City of 
Minneapolis, Minn., 1897. 
Third Annual Report of the Cemetery 
Board of the City of New Bedford, Mass., 
for the year 1897. 
Eighth Annual Report of the Commis- 
sioners of Parks and Boulevards of the 
City of Detroit, Mich , from January 1, 
1896 to July 1, 1897. 
Fifth Annual Report of the Board of 
Park Commissioners of the City of Cleve- 
land, O. 1897. 
Twenty-eighth Annual Report of the 
Buffalo, N. Y., Park Commissioners, 
January, 1898. 
Rules and Regulations of Elm Grove 
Cemetery Company, Washington, la. 
Thirty-eighth Annual Report of the 
Public Park Commission to the Mayor 
and City Council of Baltimore, Md., for 
the fiscal year ending December 31, 
1897 - 
Thirtieth Annual Report of the Trustees 
of the Proprietors of Forest Hills Ceme- 
tery, February, 1898. 
Erratum, 
A bad blunder occurred in the name of 
the tree illustrated on page 275 of the 
February issue, which in place of what 
is given should read Aralia Ficifolia. 
Hayward’s “Eureka” Weed Killer, for 
which the Fairmount Chemical Labora- 
tories, N. W. Cor. Broad and Fairmount, 
Philadelphia, are general United States 
agents and importers is recommended as 
safe and effective for clearing gravel paths, 
etc., of weeds, moss, and other growths. 
If used as directed, one dressing will keep 
the paths or drives bright and clear right 
through the summer, and is therefore a 
great saving in labor. The company has 
testimonials from estate owners, head gar- 
deners, council officials, etc., in different 
parts of Great Britain and will be pleased 
to send copies on application. It should 
be given a trial by our parks and cemeter- 
ies. 
CATALOGUES. 
Receipt is acknowledged of the hand- 
some spring catalogue issued by E. T. 
Barnum, Detroit, Mich., and devoted en- 
tirely to chairs and settees, vases, and lawn 
ornaments and furniture. These cata- 
logues are being mailed freely to all re- 
quiring such goods. The catalogue con- 
tains many new and improved designs and 
will be found, we have no doubt, very use- 
ful to anyone interested. 
We are in receipt of a valuable cata- 
logue containing 168 pages magazine size, 
about fifty pages devoted to seeds, sixty to 
plants, a few to ornamental trees, shrubs 
and vines, and the balance to the cream 
of the fruits. This comprehensive cata- 
logue is issued at Painesville, Ohio, by the 
Storrs & Harrison Company, whose inte- 
grity and reliability are unquestioned. 
Send your address to them on a postal and 
it will be sent free. 
Descriptive Catalogue of Choice Trees, 
Hardy Shrubs, Roses, Vines, and Hardy 
Plants. No. 40, 1898. Fred’k. W. Kel- 
sey, 150 Broadway, New York. — Descrip- 
tive Catalogue of Prize Dahlias offered by 
Lothrop & Higgins, Importers and Grow- 
ers, East Bridgewater, Mass. 
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Newark, N. J. April 9th, 1898. 
Editor Park and Cemetery. 
Dear Sir:— We take this method of 
informing the members of the A. A. C. S., 
that our association has the honor of having 
a lady member, and we hope that some 
of our members will have the gallantry due 
a worthy woman to correspond with Mrs. 
Emma E. Hay, superintendent of the 
Erie Cemetery, Erie, Pa. It will be 
recollected that Mrs. Hay was present at 
the Cincinnati convention, September, 
1897. At this convention Mrs. Hay read 
her report of the Erie cemetery for the 
current year, which was received with 
much applause; to my mind it was the 
most pleasing incident that transpired at 
the convention. Mrs. Hay writes me 
that she has been in good health all win- 
ter, and has been out on the grounds daily. 
She has not (as yet been able to decide 
whether she will attend the Omaha con- 
vention of 1898,— but she greatly enjoys 
our annual conventions and returns home 
feeling that she will try to do more towards 
improving her cemetery each year. The 
course she pursues with the lot owners as 
given in her letter to me is such a sensible 
action that we give it here: “Ours is an 
old cemetery and lot owners have been al- 
lowed to do almost as they wished to do 
on their lots, therefore there is great room 
for improvement; but we have to work very 
cautiously and talk a good deal to persuade 
them to see why we are doing certain 
things, I hope that in time they will be 
convinced that it is for their benefit as 
well as ours." We can all imagine the 
vast amount of work being done by our 
efficient sister co-worker, and we recom- 
mend that some of our members corre- 
spond with her, and render such informa- 
tion as might be of use to her in conduct- 
ing and improving her cemetery. We 
admire her brave spirit in tackling a situa- 
tion that but few women would have the 
courage to encounter, taking in charge 
the conducting of a cemetery. Let us all 
do what we can to encourage her in her 
arduous task. Chas Nichols. 
