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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 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 
22, 23, 24, iSq8. 
Publishers’ Department? 
Park Commissioners and Cemetery 
trustees are requested to send us copies of 
their reports. 
Park and Cemetery has in prepara- 
tion a series of plans for small parks, with 
planting schemes for carrying out the ideas 
of botanical parks, the grouping of alli- 
ances, etc., as suggested by the series of 
articles on “ Garden Plants — Their Geo- 
graphy." 
Not long since a communication was 
published in these columns from a fre- 
quent correspondent commenting upon 
the comparatively few contributions re- 
ceived from park superintendents. The 
criticism still holds good. Our readers are 
kind enough to say some very nice things 
as to how highly they value Park and 
Cemetery, expressions always appre- 
ciated, but its value could be greatly en- 
hanced by a more general exchange of ex- 
periences and observations always com- 
mon with park and cemetery managers, 
superintendents, gardeners and others. 
Photographs of specimen trees, shrubs, 
etc., accompanied by brief descriptions or 
cultural notes, would broaden our horizon. 
New methods are constantly employed by 
progressive men, and they should be ex- 
changed for mutual profit and help. 
Parks and cemeteries in the smaller 
towns and villages are coming in for a 
greater share of attention than ever be- 
fore. The rural resident is becoming more 
appreciative of the possibilities of beauti- 
fying his surroundings. To such places, 
however, the expert landscape gardener is 
seldom called, because of the expense at- 
taching thereto, and therefore the press 
must supply the demand and the press 
must needs get its best help from the 
practical workers. Give us some help, it 
will be of mutual advantage. 
Important. 
The Executive Committee of the Asso- 
ciation of American Cemetery Superinten- 
dents desires to call the attention of all 
members, or others interested in cemetery 
management, to the great importance of 
the “Question Box” at our annual conven- 
tions. Any problem as in connection 
with cemeteries that may be submitted 
will be laid before the convention for dis- 
cussion, with undoubted profit to all. Ad- 
dress, J. Y. Craig, Supt. Forest Lawn 
Cemetery, Omaha, Neb. 
The Omaha Exposition. 
The building and grounds of the Trans- 
Mississippi and International Exposition, 
to be opened June 1st. at Omaha, Neb., 
are assuming fine proportions as they near 
completion; very gratifying to its Board 
of Managers and all the states that have 
taker, part in this grand enterprise. 
In this issue a series of articles on the 
world famed Kew Gardens is begun. It 
is hardly necessary to say that these cele- 
brated botanical gardens are situated close 
to London, England, and that the British 
government fosters and sustains them. 
From these gardens have been launched 
some of the greatest botanists of the world, 
and the work done has been of such na- 
ture that all peoples have been benefited 
by the knowledge that has been dissemi- 
nated of the economic value of much of 
the vegetation of the globe, that has been 
studied and experimented upon at Kew. 
The Twenty-third annual meeting of 
the American Association of Nurserymen 
will be held at the Exposition grounds in 
Omaha, Neb., on June 8th and 9th. 
Many prominent nurserymen from th e 
western and central states are expected. 
The planting of the Expositions grounds 
has been done under Mr. Ulrich, well 
known in connection with similar work at 
the World’s Fair. As the nurserymen’s 
meeting is the first convention to be held, 
every effort is being made to have the 
Horticultural Building, which is one of the 
most beautiful on the grounds, full and 
the surrounding grounds in good shape 
ready for this occasion. 
Lord & Burnham Co., of Irvington-on- 
Hudson, N. Y., moved their New York 
office on May 1st, to St. James Building, 
Broadway and 26th street. Their new 
city quarters give them increased office 
room besides show rooms where they will 
shortly exhibit samples of their greenhouse 
construction, greenhouse heaters, ventilat- 
ing machinery and other manufactures. 
REPORTS, ETC., RECEIVED. 
Park Commissioner’s Report, Spring- 
field, Mass., 1897. Illustrated with half 
tones. 
Beautifully illustrated descriptive pam- 
phlet of Arlington cemetery, Philadelphia, 
Pa. 
Annual Report of the Board of Park 
Commissioners of the city of Toledo. 
1897. Illustrated with half tones. 
Thirty-seventh Annual Report of the 
Board of Park Commissioners of the city 
of Hartford. Conn., for the year ending 
April 30, 1897. Illustrated with half tones. 
Fifth Annual Report of the Board of 
Park Commissioners of the city of Cleve- 
land, 1897. With maps and numerous 
half tone illustrations. 
Third Annual Report of the Cemetery 
Board, New Bedford. Mass., for the year 
1897. Illustrated with half tones. 
Calvary Cemetery Association. Charter, 
By-Laws and Rules. St. Louis, Mo., 
February, 1898. Illustrated with map and 
half tone engravings. 
Thirty-eighth Annual Report of the 
Public Park Commission to the Mayor 
and City Council of Baltimore, for the fis- 
cal year ending December 31, 1897. 
Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, 
Mo. Ninth Annual Report of the Beard 
of Trustees for the year 1897. Illustrated 
with half tones and diagrams. Prof. Wm. 
Trelease. Director. 
Transactions of the Massachusetts Horti- 
cultural Society for the year 1S97. Part 1. 
Report of the South Park Commission- 
ers of Cook County. From December 1, 
1896 to December 1, 1897. Chicago 1898. 
Illustrated with map of Washington Park. 
Report of Board of Park Commissioners, 
Wilmington, Del., for the year 1897. With 
many half tones. 
Lakewood Cemetery Association An- 
nual. Lake City, Minn., 1898. 
Transactions of the Indiana Horticul- 
tural Society for 1897. Being a report of 
the 37th Annual Meeting, held in the city 
of Indianapolis, Dec. 7-c f, 1897, together 
with reports of the Summer Meeting, 
held in Pendleton, June 15, 16, and of Lo- 
cal Societies, selected papers, etc. 
Mount Hope Cemetery, Rochester, N. 
Y. Rules, Regulations and other infor- 
mation. 1898. Illustrated. 
Woocllawn Cemetery, New York. An- 
nual Report to the lot owners for the year 
1897, with Rules, Regulations, etc. The 
report is illustrated with photogravures of 
several of the fine mausoleums erected in 
this cemetery, among the most costly in 
the country. 
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