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PARK AND CEMETERY, 
Association of American Ceme' 
tery Superintendents. 
ARTHUR W. HOBERT, "Lakewood,” 
Minneapolis, Minn , President. 
Wm. STONE, “Pine Grove,” 
Lynn, Mass., Vice President. 
F. EURICH, Woodward Lawn, Detroit, Mich. 
Secretary and Treasurer. 
The Thirteenth Annual Convention will 
be held at New Haven, Conn. 
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. 
The South Bend, Ind., Cemetery Question, 
Mr. Schuyler Colfax, Mayor of South 
Bend, lnd., sends us the following in re- 
lation to the cemetery question of that 
city, which is a live and yet open one; and 
which invites investigation with a view to 
business: “The cemetery now owned 
and operated by this municipality is al- 
most full, and there is no possibility of ex- 
tending it in territory to last but a very 
few years longer. We have several very 
beautiful spots that could be made into 
beautiful cemeteries, and if a corporation 
could be interested in this, it ought to be 
a source of gratification to our citizens, 
and a source of good revenue to those 
owning the property. I would think that 
it would require 60 acres to commence 
with, and at least 60 acres retained under 
an option. The citizens of this city agi- 
tated the formation of a local company at 
one time, but there was a sentiment 
against making money out of the burying 
of the dead. I presume some stock could 
be subscribed here amongst our citizens, 
and I am quite sure that the Street Car 
Company would be very glad to extend 
their lines at once, were this place bought 
and improved. It might be well to state 
that this town contains, without doubt, 
35.000 people, and that the Street Car 
Company now putting down an entirely 
new system, and connecting us with Elk- 
hart, Goshen and Mishawaka, Ind. , seem 
to be inclined to do all that is necessary 
to improve the transportation facilities of 
the city, and to extend their lines any- 
where that it is necessary or desirable. 
John Ahrens has been appointed super- 
intendent of city parks, Sedalia, Mo. 
There were a number of candidates for 
the office. 
Citizens of Ellisburg, Jefferson Co. N. 
Y., interested in cemetery improvements 
have incorporated as the Ellisburg Ceme- 
tery Association with A. S. Thompson 
as President, and G. S. Hudson, Secre- 
tary and Superintendent. The older por- 
tion of the cemetery dates back to the first 
settlement of the country, but additional 
lands have been secured which will be 
laid out in accordance with designs pre- 
pared by Frank H Nutter, landscape ar- 
chitect, Minneapolis, Minn. 
At the annual meeting for the election 
of officers of the Massachusetts Horticul- 
tural Society, which occurred October 1, 
last, the following were elected; Presi- 
dent, Francis H. Appleton, re-elected; 
Vice presidents, Chas. H B; Birck, Wal- 
ter Hunnewell. Benjamin Ware and Sam- 
uel Hartnell; secretary, Robert Manning. 
Benjamin M. Watson, professor of botany 
and vegetable physiology and Samuel H. 
Scudder, professor of entomology. 
The California University Competition. 
According to a cable dispatch the first 
of the competitions for the Phebe Hearst 
Architectural Plan, for the University of 
California has resulted in the selection of 
eleven designs, the authors of which a:e 
to take part in the final competition. Six 
were American, one Austrian, one Swiss 
and three French. The American com- 
petitors were: Whitney Warren, J. H. 
Freedlander, Howard & Cauldwell, How- 
ell, Stokes & Hornbostel, and Lord, Hew- 
lett & Hull of New York City; and Desgr- 
adelle & Cod man of Boston. The award 
commissioners were: Mr. J. L. Pascal, 
chairman, France; Paul Wallot, Germany 
R. Nor man Shaw, England and Walter 
Cook, United States. The University of 
California was represented by its regent 
Mr. J. B. Reinstein. 
Canadian Horticultural Society. 
The first annual convention of the Cana- 
dian Horticultural Society was held in 
Toronto, September 7-8. Papers were 
read on “The Rose,” “Dutch Bulbs,” 
“How to Make a Flower Show Pay,” 
“Carnations ” “What is the Most Eco- 
nomical Fuel,” etc. Prof. Fletcher of Ot- 
tawa, delivered a lecture upon “The 
Diseases of Plants.” The City of Ottawa 
was chosen for the next annual meeting 
to be held in August, 1899. The following 
officers were elected: Wm. Gammage, 
London, President; 1st. Vice-president, 
C. Serim, Ottawa; 2nd. Vice president, 
P. McKenna; Secretary, A. H. Ewing, 
Montreal; Treasurer, Jno, H. Dunlop, 
Toronto. 
The United States Department of Agri- 
culture has received through the Depart- 
ment of State, a communication from 
Count Cassini, Russian Ambassador, stat- 
ing that the Imperial Russian Horticul- 
tural Society will hold an International 
Horticultural Exposition at St. Peters- 
burg, in May, 1899. The United States 
is invited to take part in the Exposition 
by sending exhibits and special commis- 
sioners to prepare the American section. 
Exhibits of foreign exhibitors duly ac- 
credited, will not be subject to custom 
inspection at the Russian frontier. Privy 
Counsellor Fischer von Waldheim. Direc- 
tor of the Imperial Botanical Garden at 
St. Petersburg, has charge of the foreign 
sections of the Exposition with the func- 
tions of president, and all inquiries rela- 
tive to the Exposition should be addressed 
to him. 
In the city library of Kansas City is a 
collection of geological specimens made 
by Mr. Sidney J. Hare, Superintendent of 
Forest Hill cemetery of that city. In this 
collection is what the Kansas City jour- 
nal describes as the oldest book in the 
city, consisting of four stone slabs bound 
together by a strip of canvas, and resem- 
bling a book in lorm. On the slabs can 
be seen the imprints of rain and the feet 
of some animal resembling a bird and of 
monsters, made there centuries ago. The 
following is the description by the curator : 
“Some raindrops fell upon the first page 
and left their mark upon it. The birds 
alighted on the second leaf and left the 
prints of their tiny feet. A primeval 
monster — a cat after the bird— marred the 
smoothness of the third page with the im- 
pression of his huge claws. And a gust 
of wind came along, turned the fourth 
page over and closed the book. The name 
of the book is ‘ Footprints on the Sands 
of Time,’ and it was written by the great 
Author of the Universe.” 
Who knows where the graveyard is 
Where the fox and the eagle lie? 
Who has seen the obsequies 
Of the red deer where they die? 
The common forest brown 
Covers them over with Quaker grace 
Just where they laid them down. 
If you see in summer a deeper green 
Here and there it is like to be 
The spot where their bones have been. 
— William Herbert CarruUv 
RECEIVED. 
Courtesy of Mr. Frank H. Nutter: Re- 
port, Minnesota Surveyors’ and Engineers 
Annual Conventions. 1897, 1898. 
By laws and Rules and Regulations of 
Oak Grove Cemetery, Delaware, O. 
City of Boston. Department of Parks. 
Twenty-third Annual Report of the Board 
of Commissioners for the year ending Jan- 
uary 31, 1898. Illustrated with maps and 
half tone engravings. 
Forest Lawn Cemetery, Omaha, Neb. 
By-laws, Rules, Regulations. Illustrated 
with half tones. 
Transactions of the Massachusetts Hor- 
ticultural Society, for the year 1S97, 
Part 11. 
Cornell University Experiment 
S FATION. 
Bulletin 146. February 1898. Fourth 
report of progresson Extension Work. 
By I. P. Roberts. 
Montana Agricultural Experi- 
ment Station. 
Bulletin 15. Larkspur Poisoning of 
Sheep. By Dr. E. V. Wilcox. 
CATALOGUES. 
Fall 1898. Spring 1899. Pinehurst 
Nurseries, Pinehurst, N. C. — The Munson 
Nurseries, Denison, Texas.— Highland 
Nursery. Kawana, N.C.; Harlan P. Kelsey, 
Boston, Mass. Dreer’s Autumn Catalogue, 
1898, Philadelphia, Pa 
Wholesale Trade List and Special List 
of Choice Nursery Stock, of Meehan’s 
Nurseries, Germantown, Philadelphia, 
Pa., for fall of 1898 and spring of 1899. 
These lists comprise a remarkably varied 
stock of Ornamental Trees, Shrubs, Vines 
and Herbaceous plants, and includes some 
of the choicest trees and shrubs in the 
country. 
