PARK AND CEMETERY. 
guished services” in connection with 
the selection of the man could hardly 
be more worthily or happily applied. 
However, congratulations are much in 
order, and the honor will be appre- 
ciated both by the recipient and the 
friends of horticulture everywhere, 
for it is only bestowed after minute 
and careful investigation of the claims 
to distinction of those selected, and is 
evidently given irrespective of all 
claims except those of science and its 
devotees. Mr. Wilson is the energetic 
and indefatigable “globe girdler” in 
search of plants for the Arnold Ar- 
boretum, and his services to that in- 
stitution and, through it, to the world 
are inestimable. His discoveries, his 
remarkable judgment and knowledge 
in selection, and his very eminent suc- 
cess in this arduous and precarious 
work, call for the sincerest congratu- 
lations to be extended to him for this 
latest acknowledgment of his claims 
to distinguished recognition. 
After a service of thirty-two years 
as assistant superintendent of Green 
Lawn Cemetery, Columbus, O., Mr. 
John J. Stephens resigns his post to 
become superintendent of Crown Hill 
Cemetery, Indianapolis, Ind. This is 
distinctly an upward movement for 
Mr. Stephens, for Crown Hill Ceme- 
tery is one of the largest and withal 
among the most progressive of the 
cemeteries of the United States, com- 
prising some 600 acres. Mr. Steph- 
ens’ father, the late Adam Stephens, 
became superintendent of Green Lawn 
in 1868; he died eight years ago and 
was succeeded by his son, L, Y. 
Stephens, brother of the retiring as- 
sistant superintendent, so that it can- 
not be without feelings of regret that 
Mr. Stephens breaks away from such 
associates even to exercise his long 
experience in a broader field. Mr. 
Stephens is this year president of the 
Association of American Cemetery 
Superintendents and is taking an 
active interest in the preparations for 
the annual convention of that organ- 
ization. 
Mr. W. H. Wheeler, superintendent 
of Crown Hill Cemetery, Indianapolis, 
Ind., for the past two years, resigns 
that office to devote his whole time 
to his profession of civil engineering. 
OBITUARY 
One of the active spirits in the 
growth and development of Riverside 
Cemetery, Hastings, Mich., John 
Bessmer, passed away on February 5 
at the home of his sister, Mrs. Eck- 
hardt, in Woodland, whither he had 
gone on Saturday afternoon for a 
week-end visit. He was born in 
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