PARK AND CEMETERY 
79 
Association of American Ceme' 
tery Superintendents. 
G. W. CREESY, "Harmony Grove,” 
Salem, Mass., President. 
ARTHUR W. HORERT, "Lakewood,” 
Minneapolis, Minn , Vice President. 
F. EURICH, Woodward Lawn, Detroit, Mich- 
Secretary and Treasurer. 
The Twelfth Annual Convention will be 
held September 13, 14,15, 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 Buildimt, 
Boston, Mass. Secy, and Treas. 
The next meeting of the Association 
will be held at Minneapolis, Minn., June 
22, 23, 24, 1898. 
Publ ishersMDepartment| 
Park Commisuoners and Cemetery 
trustees are requested to send us copies of 
their reports. 
Photographs and descriptive sketches of 
interesting features in pirks and ceme- 
teries arc soli, ited from our readers. 
Annual Convention of the Association of 
American Cemetery Superintendents. 
The 1 2th Annual Convention of the As o- 
ciationof American Cemetery Superinten- 
dents will be held at Omaha, Neb., Sept. 
1 3. 14 and 15. The Dellon Hotel, cor. 14th 
and Capitol ave., has been selected as 
headquarters. Street cars from all depots 
in the city pass, this h del or within one 
block of it. The hotel management has 
assured the committee that everything 
that can be done for the comfort of our 
members and friends and to forward the 
i uerests of the convention will be done. 
Rates: American Plan from $2 to 
$3 per day. 
European, $1 and upwards. 
The programmes in full will be pub- 
lished in the next issue of Park and 
Cemetery. Questionsfor the question box 
will be gladly received and will have due 
cans'deration at the convention. Address 
all communications to J. Y. Craig, 
Om iha, Neb. 
At a meeting of the directors of the 
Franklin, Pa., Cemetery Association held 
recently. Cyrus Phipps, was unanimously 
re elected superintendent of the associa- 
tion's property. Mr. Phipps has served in 
that capacity for the past 15 years. 
An invitation has been received from 
Mr. W. A. Manda, South Orange, N. J., to 
inspect his New Evergreen Hardy Roses, 
he result of crosses between Rosa Wich- 
uriana and the Teas. These wonderful hy- 
brids will withstand the attacks of insects, 
are hardy and evergreen through the win- 
ter. Mr. Manda is making great strides 
in rose breeding. 
Mr. Bellett Lawson is now at work im- 
proving the recently organized cemetery 
of “Grand View,” at Wilkesbarre, Pa. It 
is a rough piece of land but commands 
magnificent views of the Wyoming Val- 
l.'y, and offers opportunities for the beau- 
tiful landscape work which Mr. Lawson 
will undertake. 
RECEIVED. 
Third Annual Report, Indianapolis, 
1S97. Illustrated with half tones. 
Thirtieth Annual Report of the Com- 
missioners of Lincoln Park, Chicago, from 
April 1, 1897 to March 31, 1898. 
Fifty-sixth Annual Report of the busi- 
ness of the Lowell Cemetery to the pro- 
prietors, 1898. The rep irt contains a list 
of Trust-fund lots and lot owners of record. 
Maine Agricultural Experiment 
Station. 
Bulletin 43. Fertilizer Inspection, con- 
tains the analyses of Manufacturer’s 
samples of all brands of Fertilizers 
licensed before February 25, 1S9S. 
Bulletin 44. Feeding Stuff Inspection. 
Cornell University Agricultural 
Experiment Station, Ithaca, N. Y. 
Bulletin 147. Fourth Report upon 
Chrysanthemums. 
Fifth Annual Report of the Street and 
Park Commission of the City of Man- 
chester, N. H. 1897. Illustrated wiih 
half tones. 
Rules and Prices, Forest Hill Cemetery, 
Kansas City. Illustrated with half tones. 
Proceedings of the Tenth Annual 
Meeting of the Florida State Horticul- 
tural Society. Held at Orlando, Fla., 
May 4 7, 1897. 
Annual Report of the Park Commis- 
sioners of the City of St. Louis, 1896 97. 
After several years reading Park and 
Cemetery, I cannot think of doing with- 
out it; each number enhances its value 
and in the management of a cemetery, 
whether large or small, I think every 
superintendent would study his own in- 
terest by being a subscriber. Henry 
Thompson, Supt. , Mount Pleasant Ceme- 
tery, Deer Park, Ontario, Canada. 
Residential Sites and Environ- 
ments. Their Conveniences, Gardens, 
Planting, etc. By Jos. Forsyth Johnson, 
F. R. H. S. Consulting Landscape 
Gardener and Garden Architect. 
Author of “Natural Principles of Land- 
scape Gardening.” Royal quarto. 
Price, cloth, $2.50, New York. A. T. 
De La Mare, Printing and Publishing 
Co., Ltd. 
This pretentious work while containing 
a mass of general information and consid- 
erable valuable suggestive matter, show- 
ing a varied knowledge of the propositions 
discussed, is a most disappointing volume. 
One would not want to find fault with the 
theories used in the many chapters offered 
to the .leader, because in the comparative 
modernity of landscape art, its practitiont 
ers differ more or less, while all the con- 
scientious workers undoubtedly try to ac- 
under the influence of its true principles. 
But in the present work the crudeness of 
the illustrations altogether mar the prob- 
able intentions of the author, which ap- 
pears to be to present a practical work on 
landscape art for various situations and 
the materials and methods to be adopted, 
drawn from such theoretical suggestions 
or practical examples as his practice may 
have provided. But the obtrusive form- 
ality in many of the designs illustrated 
either run counter to the ideas now recog- 
nized as best, or misrepresent the inten- 
tion of the author, which demonstrates the 
necessity oi the greatest of care in select- 
ing designs and presenting them to the 
reader under the best conditions known 
to the draftsman's art or their reproduc- 
tion for book purposes. The value of the 
work would have been largely increased 
by a wise selection of views of existing 
landscape work. 
The book contains, however, a great 
amount of valuable reading matter on 
landscape art, its artistic requirements 
and means and methods to meet those re- 
quirements in many practical examples. 
Its instructive matter on planting out and 
grouping will claim attention, as well as 
the many discussions on the relative mer- 
its of plants for certain purposes. A sug- 
gestive chart is given by which records 
may be made continually on the peculiar- 
ities and characteristics of plants as they 
develop, a feature of value with all lovers 
of plant life. Tables of plants for special 
purposes are given together with a list of 
bedding material. The questions of soil, 
drainage and the planting and care of 
shrubs and trees are given consideration, 
while the details in which engineering 
plays a part are discussed with due regard 
to the importance which they suggest. 
The gypsy moth has found its way into 
Congress, says the New England Florist. 
Senator Lodge has introduced a memor- 
ial asking federal aid for Massachusetts, 
in the endeavor to destroy the pest that 
has cost the Bay State several million 
dollars, and which would have spread over 
New England had not Massachusetts 
fought hard to kill it. When Senator 
Lodge's memorial comes up for action, it 
will be an apt moment for Senator Hoar 
to force his bill for the protection of birds. 
More live birds will make more dead 
moths. 
A petition to Congress asks for $25,000 
for the Improvement of the harbor of the 
Interstate Park, Dalles of the St. Croix 
and the channel of the St. Croix river. 
The government has control of the Har- 
bor of the Dalles of the channel of the 
river St. Croix, from the Upper to the 
Lower Dalles, passing through the park, 
giving a shore line of some eight miles in- 
cluding the islands. This is in connec- 
tion with the effort of the states of Wis- 
consin and Minnesota to preserve this 
beautiful scenery as a national park. 
The cemeteries of Germany, Berlin have 
recently been infested by people who trv 
to lift the gravestones in the hope of find- 
