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that question adjudicated, they may do so by 
instituting in the proper court, proper pro- 
ceedings for that purpose. 
We are, therefore, of the opinion that 
the judgment of the Circuit Court should 
be reversed with directions to enter judg- 
ment in favor of the plaintiffs, enjoining 
Kansas City and its agents and officers 
from interfering with burials in said ceme- 
tery and from putting in force the provi- 
sions of said ordinance; and it is so or- 
dered. 
PROPOSED NEW PLANT INDUSTRY BUILDING, IOWA STATE COLLEGE. 
NEW GREENHOUSE AT IOWA STATE COLLEGE 
The rapid growth of the floral industry 
in Iowa coincident with the development 
of its larger towns and cities, as well as 
the increasing attention being paid in this 
state to truck crops has received recogni- 
tion from the Iowa state legislature which 
authorises the building of greenhouses and 
a laboratory building to cost a total of 
$50,000 at Iowa State College at Ames for 
experimentation and instruction along these 
lines. 
Ground has been broken for the new 
building to be known as the plant propaga- 
tion building. Here, beside instructional 
courses in the handling of cut flowers and 
ornamental plants, students will learn 
green house management, and will work 
with the faculty in investigating the dis- 
eases of greenhouse plants, the use of fer- 
tilizers, insecticides, and other floral pro- 
blems. All agricultural students will also 
carry on work in this building in plant 
propagation, seed testing and plant breed- 
ing. 
In its greenhouse work, the college will 
co-operate with some of the largest green- 
house plants in the Mississippi valley. Iowa 
now has some large plants. At Charles 
City 50,000 square feet of glass is devoted 
to American Beauty roses. Davenport has 
ICO.OCO square feet devoted exclusively to 
cucumbers. Des Moines has 100,000 square 
feet in cut flowers. Council Bluffs has two 
large plants, one with 350,000 square feet 
in vegetables, and another, the largest plant 
between Chicago and the coast, has 650,000 
square feet in cut flowers and truck garden 
crops. 
The total glass area in Iowa is nearly 
two million square feet. The returns per 
square foot under glass are reported at 
from 30 cents to 50 cents. 
The intensive types of farming in Iowa 
have created a demand for instruction and 
information along truck crop lines. With 
the aid of the new greenhouses, the college 
will conduct extensive experiments in onion 
culture and other lines. In Iowa the pickle 
industry is assuming large proportions, and 
growers have also found that the corn 
belt soil and climate is well adapted to a 
heavy tonnage of cabbage. In Iowa pota- 
toes from the fourth largest crop. 
Because of the importance of these truck 
crops, the college has placed Prof. A. T. 
Erwin on full time in charge of exhaust- 
ive experiments. Prof. H. C. Volz, of 
Michigan Agricultural College, has been 
engaged to teach truck crops and floricul- 
ture, and Prof. Frank C. Culley, of Har- 
vard University, will this year begin en- 
larged courses in landscape gardening. 
Prof. C. L. Fitch, potato expert, formerly 
of Colorado, is extension worker in truck 
crops, and will carry to the growers of the 
state the results of the experiments and 
investigations made by the college. He is 
also interested in co-operative marketing. 
With the new equipment, Iowa State Col- 
lege will stand in a favorable position to 
do high class work in these special 
branches of horticulture. 
CEMETERY SUPERINTENDENTS ST. LOUIS CONVENTION 
The program for the annual convention 
of the American Association of Cemetery 
Superintendents to be held at the Planters 
Hotel in St. Louis October 6, 7 and 8, has 
been partially completed, authough it will 
be published more in detail in the Septem- 
ber issue of Park and Cemetery. 
President Matthew P. Brazill, of St. 
Louis, who is also chairman of the con- 
vention committee, writes lhat it will be 
Festival Week in St. Louis at that time 
and there will be a large number of visi- 
tors in the city to attend the Veiled Pro- 
phets’ procession and ball. He also advises 
all members to make an early application 
for rooms. 
The rates at the Planters Hotel are as 
follows : 
PLANTERS’ HOTEL. 
European Plan. 
DAILY RATES. 
Single rooms, without bath, for one person, $1.50 
and $2 per day. 
Single rooms, with bath, for one person, $2.50, 
$3, $3.50 and $4 per day. 
Double rooms, without bath, for two persons, 
$1.25 and $1.50 each person per day. 
Double rooms, with bath, for two persons, $1.75, 
$2, $2.50 and $3 each person per day. 
Where over two persons occupy same room $1 
additional charged for extra person. 
We do not in any manner operate on the Amer- 
ican plan, but we serve table d’hote meals at the 
following prices: Breakfast, 75c; luncheon, 60c; 
dinner, $1; club breakfasts, 30c to $1. 
THIRD FLOOR RATES. 
(With Bath.) 
Single room, $5 per day. Double room, $7 per 
day. 
