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PARK AND CE/nETERY. 
The Association of American Ceme= 
tery Superintendents. 
To the Members of the A. A. C. .S'. 
Under date of Oct. 7, 1895 I 
mailed each of you a circular 
which needs no further explana- 
tions, only to add that we rely 
wholly on your success in secur- 
ing advertisements for our Rich- 
mond report. This notice will 
reach you the latter part of this 
month and if you have done noth- 
ing in the matter when you read 
this please do so at once. 
Yours fraternally, 
Frank Eurich, 
Sec’y and Treas. 
Publishers’ Department. 
Notice TO SUBSCRIBERS, If this not- 
ice is marked with a bine pencil it indi- 
cates that your subscription to Park and 
Cemetery has expired and a renewal of 
same is solicited. 
Park Commissioners and Cemetery 
trustees are requested to send us copies of 
their reports. 
Photographs and descriptive sketches of 
interesting features in parks and cemeter- 
ies are solicited from our readers. 
Park and Cemetery wants the names 
■of every park and cemetery official or em- 
ployee who would be likely to be interest- 
ed in this paper. To the many subscrib- 
ers who have sent in such lists of names, 
we return our thanks. There are many 
more that we should hear from. 
Subscribers are again reminded that we 
want brief notes on any feature of park or 
cemetery work that will be of general in- 
terest. Park and Cemetery is the only 
publication of its class and earnestly so- 
dicits the co-operation of subscribers in 
.making it a help to all identified with 
such work. 
“The Forest Tree Manual,” by J. O. 
'Barrett, Secretary of the State Forestry 
Association, Minneapolis, Minn. This 
pamphlet of 130 pages is as its name im- 
plies, a manual of forest trees, and also 
includes Shrubs and Forest Zoology. It 
gives much imformation on Forestry 
matters, discussions, laws, and suggestions 
and describes methods and operations 
connected with tree planting and culture, 
which is particulary timely and grows 
more so. This is the tenth edition of the 
work and is dated 1894. 
“Park Commissioners Report”, Spring- 
field, Mass , for 1894. This handsomely 
gotten up report of the Park Commission- 
ers of Springfield, Mass., deserves partic- 
ular attention as it unquestionably re- 
presents in printed matter and illustrat- 
ions, the refined ideas that should be 
associated with park interests. And fur- 
ther, it is classified in such a manner that 
a fund of information is made readily 
available. It describes Forest Park, its 
chief work, in its several details, and then 
devotes separate chapters to the birds, 
the Flora, wild and cultured, with classi 
fied lists under each head and concludes 
with ordinances and laws. The half tone 
illustrations are a beautiful feature, and a 
a map completes this excellent production. 
It is handsomely bound in cloth and is 
a valuable addition to park literature. 
The managers of Riverside Cemetery, 
Norristown, Pa., advertise their property 
by means of a neat, well printed, four page 
folder. On the face is a map of the ceme- 
tery, on the inner pages a short talk on 
modern cemeteries and perpetual care, 
and on the back the prices of burial lots, 
etc. This is a handy and business-like 
way of scattering information. 
On another page will be found an ad- 
vertisement of the Andorro Nurseries, 
Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, Pa., espec- 
ially devoted to the Oriental Plane Tree. 
This tree has been extensively used in 
many of the large cities of Europe, and it 
has special qualities, which make it desir- 
able for many situations. It makes a 
splendid avenue tree, and it is clean and 
thrifty, rapid in growth, and is free from 
insect troubles. It is growing in favor and 
has a good record, which should lead to 
its use extensively where conditions are 
favorable. 
The Horticulturist’s Rule=Book. 
MacMillan & Co., 66 Fifth Avenue, 
New York, Price 75 cents. Horticultu- 
ists Rule-Book is just to hand. This val- 
uable compendium of useful information 
has been revised and extended for the 
edition, to exclude as much as possible all 
the practice and experience of the past 
two years. A chapter has been added on 
greenhouse work and heating. Prof. 
Bailey in his prefarce to this edition says: 
“In its completed form, therefore it is 
hoped that the volume will serve to co- 
dify and epitomize the best part of the 
scattered and disconnected horticultural 
advice and practices of the time.” Those 
who have cognizance of Prof. Bailey’s val- 
uable work at the Experiment Statue of 
Cornell University, will be convinced of 
the utility of this book. 
TRADE CATALOGUE RECEIVED. 
Meehans Nurseries. Germantown, Pa., 
Hardy Shrubs, Trees, Grasses, etc., eSch 
edition. Fred’k W. Kelsey, New York, 
N. Y., trees, shrubs, bulbs and plants for 
fall planting. 
Bertermann Brothers Florists, Indian- 
apolis, Ind., have issued an interesting 
booklet, as an advertisement. It is en- 
titled “House Plants, Howto Grow, water, 
transplant,"’ etc. 
THE 
CHICAGO 
L. 
Interment Record and Lot Book. 
This system is thought to embrace the best features of the most popular forms of burial records now in use 
and may be adapted to large or small cemeteries. The Interment Record gives all of the necessary inform- 
ation in regard to the deceased, and the Lot Book locates every grave, so that it can be readily found at 
any time. The books are printed on heavy paper, substantially bound and furnished in different sizes, de- 
pending upon the requirements of the cemetery. 
R. J. HAIGHT, Pub., 334 Dearborn St., Chicago. 
