PARK AND CEMETERY, 
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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 September 13, 14, 1 5, at Omaha, Neb. 
The American Park and Out- Door 
Art Association. 
CHARLES M, LORING, Minneapolis, Minn., 
President. 
WARREN H. MANNING, Tremont Building, 
Boston. Mass. Secretary. 
E. B HASKELL, Boston, Treasurer. 
The next meeting of the Association 
will be held at Detroit, Mich. 
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. 
Notice to Cemetery Officials. 
At the last meeting of the Association 
of American Cemetery Superintendents a 
committee was appointed for the purpose 
of making a selection of papers read at all 
previous meetings and of publishing the 
same in book form. This compilation 
of papers will be ready about Aug. 15th, 
and will provide a most valuable book on 
cemetery development and management. 
The book is strongly bound, and will be 
mailed to any address upon receipt of 50c. 
per copy. Please address, 
Frank Enrich , care of6o4 Union 
Trust Bldg., Detroit, Mich. 
Hon. Charles M. Lori ng of Minneapolis, 
who was elected president of the Ameri- 
can Park and Outdoor Art Association at 
its recent meeting in that city, has long 
been intimately associated with park mat- 
ters. He was the leader in the movement 
which has given Minneapolis such a mag- 
nificent system, and was president of the 
Park Commissioners for a long period. 
His sympathies are profoundly with the 
movement. 
The co-operation of the Woman’s Im- 
provement League of Minneapolis added 
very largely to the success of the recent 
convention of the American Park and Out- 
door Art Association at Minneapolis. It 
is an active organization, having for its ob- 
ject the promotion of the “health, cleanli- 
ness and beauty of our city.” Mrs. Robert 
Pratt, secretary, wife of the mayor, was an 
active participant in the proceedings of 
the convention. 
Mr. George H. Chase of Stamford, 
Conn , whose family lot is situated in the 
Willimantic cemetery recently visited the 
latter and complimented the cemetery 
committee on the fine appearance of the 
grounds. On returning home he for- 
warded a check for $500 to the trustees to 
be used as that body considered best in 
the good work. Mr. Chase was the donor 
of the ornamental boundary fence which 
fronts the cemetery. This affords an ex- 
cellent suggestion to cemetery trustees in 
our smaller towns especially. The good 
appearance of the grounds, denoting care, 
exerts a powerful influence on such lot 
owners as may be able to give financial as- 
sistance. 
Woodlawn Cemetery, Winona, Minn., 
is one of the cemeteries which of late years 
have been busy making improvements in 
line with modern practice. The Perpetual 
Care and Improvement Fund was in- 
creased for the year ending June 1st, by 
$1.01 1. 10, giving a total fund now of $17,- 
232,20. The total number of interments 
in the cemetery is 4,712, the number for 
the past year being 135. In the report 
of the trustees occurs the following: “Our 
purpose is to continue the further im- 
provements of the grounds as rapidly 
as our means will permit, believing this 
policy to be in accord with the wishes — as 
it certainly is with the interests of the lot 
owners.” The late George P. Smith of 
P hiladelphia, a former resident of Winona, 
has bequeathed a considerable sum tor the 
benefit of the cemetery, the amount of the 
legacy is not however definitely known. 
In Horticultural Notes in the June issue, 
in the article from Prof. S. B. Green, 
Como Park, Minneapolis, should be Como 
Park, St. Paul, of course. Mr. Fred Nuss- 
baumer, superintendent of parks. St. Paul, 
calls attention to the geographical over- 
sight. 
E. T. Barnum, Detroit, Mich., the ex- 
tensive manufacturer of iron and wire and 
brass work, is about to issue a new cata- 
logue devoted entirely to Cemetery Vault 
Gates and Doors, Guards, Name Plates, 
Memorial Tablets, in bronze and iron. It 
will contain a large number of new origi- 
nal designs of this class of work and a ill 
be found very useful to anyone interested 
in the erection of vaults or mausoleums. 
Copies sent on application to parties in- 
terested. 
RECEIVED. 
Charter, Constitution and By-Laws of 
the Rhode Island Horticultural Society 
with a list of members. 
Seventh Annual Report of the Park 
Commissioners of the City of Milwaukee, 
Wis , 1898. 
From Mr. L. M. Moore, superintendent 
of Parks, Toledo, O., photograph of pro- 
posed site for Centennial Exposition in 
1903 - 
Annual Report of the Trustees of Ceme- 
teries of the City of Walden, Mass., for 
the year 1897. 
Annual Report, Board of Park Com- 
missioners, City of St. Paul, Minn., 1897, 
1898. Beautifuily illustrated with half 
tones. 
Druid Ridge Cemetery, Baltimore Md„ 
1898. Rules. Regulations and other in- 
formation. Illustrated with half tones. 
Also program of Opening and Dedicatory 
Services. June 11, 1898. of the cemetery. 
From Mr. Geo. J. Baldwin, Vice-Chair- 
man Park and Tree Commission, Sa- 
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vannah, Ga., copy of the Rules and Regu 
lations of the Commission. By a state law 
this commission is in charge of all parks, 
squares, grass plats, cemeteries and trees 
in Savannah, which gives it ample oppor- 
tunity for the proper care of the property 
put in its charge. The commission is now 
revising cemetery rules which will be 
adopted later. In an early issue further 
notice of the above will be given. 
Vegetation and Scenery in the 
Metropolitan Reservation of 
Boston. — A Forestry report written by 
Charles Eliot and presented to the Met- 
ropolitan Park Commission, February 
15, 1897. By Olmsted & Eliot, Land- 
scape Architects. Lampson, Wolffe & 
Company, Boston, New York and Lon- 
don. 
This pamphlet, in heavy binding, com- 
prising some 25 pages of text, nearly 70 
descriptive full page half tone engravings 
and several maps, has been published 
with the approval of the Metropolitan Park 
Commission, and concerning it the preface 
says: ‘-This paper on the Metropolitan 
Reservations was the last report written 
by Charles Eliot. The original manu- 
script, with its maps and numerous photo- 
graphic illustrations, is at once a record of 
the condition of the reservations in 1896 
as regards their vegetation, and a treatise 
on the methods of controlling and manag- 
ing the vegetation in the interest of the 
scenery. As a record it is not possible to 
reproduce it in printed form, but as a 
treatise it can be adequately, though not 
completely, presented in print, and as 
such it deserves wide reading, for the 
principles set forth have wide application.” 
A persual of the contents and methods of 
treating the subjects brought under con- 
sideration from the varied features of land- 
scape woik offered by the Reservation, 
justifies the suggestions of the preface. It 
is indeed a treatise so fully illustrated, 
however that every step in the discussion 
is before the eye in a remarkably practi- 
cal manner. It is, moreover, a far reach- 
ing memorial to a man of imperishable 
memory, whose name will always be linked 
with Boston’s Metropolitan Park Reserva- 
tions. 
CATALOGUES. 
Catalogue of Elm City Nursery Co., 
Landscape Gardeners and Nurserymen, 
New Haven, Conn. 
“Flowers can play no part in a military 
funeral, the rules of army or naval burials 
forbidding them,” explained an army offi- 
cer to a reporter. “While I was down at 
Chickamauga recently it was rumored that 
one of the soldiers in a camp there had 
died. Indeed, it was so printed in a local 
paper. The result was that on the follow- 
ing day a large quantity of flowers were 
sent by sympathetic ladies and o hers with 
a request that they should be placed on 
the coffin of the dead soldier. Now, the 
fact was that no soldier had died, and the 
officers had the flowers sent to their quar- 
ters. If there were a death in the camp 
the flowers could not be used, for they are 
not military in any sense. The only thing 
allowed on the coffin of a soldier or a sailor 
is a flag. That has been decided to be 
decoration enough, and among military 
men I have never heard the slightest ob- 
jection to the custom, which has always 
prevai led. ” — Wash ington Star. 
