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Association of American Cemetery 
Superintendents. 
O. C. SIMONDS. "Graceland,” 
Chicago, President 
G. W. CREESY, “Harmony Grove,’’ 
Salem, Mass., Vice-President. 
F. EURICH, Woodlawn, Toledo, O., 
Secretary and Treasurer. 
The Tenth Annual Convention will be 
held at St. Louis, September, 15, 16 and 
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Publisher’s Department. 
Notice TO Subscribers. If this no- 
tice is marked with a blue pencil it indi- 
cates that your subscription to Park 
AND Cemetery has expired and a renew- 
al 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 soli- 
cits the co-operation of subscribers in 
making it a help to all indentified with 
such work. 
Association of American Cemetery 
Superintendents. 
Preparations are being made for the 
tenth annual convention which will be 
held in St. Louis, Mo., Sept. 15, 16 and 
17 of this year. Arrangements have been 
perfected to hold convention at the Plant- 
er’s Hotel, where members will be accom- 
odated at rates from $3.00 per day and 
upwards. The Executive Committee 
would be glad to receive suggestions that 
will help make up the programme. Com- 
munications may be addressed to Chair- 
man M. P. Brazill, Supt. Calvary Cem- 
eter, St. Louis, Mo., or Secretary Prank 
Eurich. As arrangements progress an- 
nouncements will be made in these col- 
umns. 
Frank Eurich, 
Secy and Trcas. 
Sta. “ B.” Toledo, O. 
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The annual meeting of the executive 
committee of the Society of American 
Florists was held at Cleveland, O., April 
28-30. Preparations for the August con- 
vention were discussed. Among the im- 
portant subjects for discussion at the con- 
vention will be: The Chemistry of Ferti- 
lizers, “Commerical Law as applied to our 
Business,” and “Over production as view- 
ed from the standpoint of Producer, 
Wholesaler and Retailer.” 
The annual meeting of the American 
Association of Nurserymen will be held 
at the Sherman House, Chicago, June 10 
and II. Special efforts have been made 
to make this a profitable meeting from a 
business stand point. 
Mr. Bellett Lawson, Chicago, has just 
completed laying out a nesv cemetery on 
the lawn plan at Barry, 111 . , and is now 
employed on similar work at Des Moines, 
Iowa. 
Andrew S. Fuller. 
One of the brightest lights of the horti- 
cultural world went out, when Andrew S. 
Fuller departed this life at his beautiful 
home, Ridgewood, N. J., on May 4. 
Born in Utica N. Y., in 1828, he began 
his career as a florist in Milwaukee, at the 
age of 18, and for more than 40 years he 
has since been prominently before the 
public as a writer on horticultural sub- 
jects. In many respects he was a remark- 
able man, well and favorably known to a 
vast number by his valuable writings; a 
man of scientific leanings, exact and 
painstaking in his experiments and inves- 
tigations. and an enthusiast in natures 
methods and works. To say that he was 
a public benefactor is to accord to men of 
his attainments and disposition the word 
of commendation which the record of such 
lives sustains. He was laid to rest in his 
own beautiful grounds at Ridgewood. 
In the note on Kensico Cemetery, New 
York, in our last issue it was inadvertently 
stated, that the cemetery was organized 
in 1874. It should have been 1891. The 
organization was effected in that year and 
work immediately commenced, the first 
interment being made almost at the same 
time. This year’s business shows a very 
large increase. 
Received. 
By Laws, Rules and Regulations of 
Oakgrove Cemetery, Delaware, O. 
Rural Cemeteries. Folder by Frank H. 
Nutter, landscape architect, Minneapolis. 
Minn. 
Our City’s Breathing Places; remarks 
before All Souls Unity Club, Grand Rap- 
ids, Mich., April 8, 1896. By Chas. W. 
Garfield. 
The fifty- fourth annual report of the 
business of the Lowell cemetery to the 
proprietors, 1896. Attached to this report 
which is distributed to lot owners is a 
blank order, so perforated as to be readily 
detachable from the page. This order is 
addressed to the superintendent, and 
under certain heads authorizes him to do 
certain work upon their lots during the 
current year at prices fixed by trustees, to 
the extent of the amount named on order. 
This IS signed by lot -owners, with ad- 
dress to which bill should be sent . 
This is an excellent feature. It is not only 
suggestive to the lot owner, but when at- 
tended to settles the matter for the year 
and ensures proper attention at proper 
times. 
Cemetery officials and plot owners will 
be interested in the Memorial Restorer 
referred to on page 268 . 
Roads. 
There is no more important depart- 
ment of park and, cemetery work than 
that of making and maintaining good 
roads, and good roads are now more quick- 
ly brought into condition than in former 
days, by reason of the machinery con- 
structed for the different parts of the work. 
And besides, the improvements in road 
making machinery have been effected far 
in advance, as it were, of the develope- 
ment of good roads over our country. 
These remarks have been suggested by a 
perusal of the catalogue of the American 
Road Machine Co., Kennett Square, 
Penna., whose profusely illustrated and 
descriptive catalogue of road machinery 
is a revelation of what is now constructed 
in this way for that class of public works. 
This is the eighteenth annual catalogue 
of the company and fully explains and 
describes the general and special merits 
of their complete line of Road Graders, 
Rock Crushers, Road Rollers, Engines, 
Distributing Carts, Wheel Scrapers, Drag 
Scrapers and Road Plows. The catalogue 
is most complete in its illustrative and 
descriptive matter and can be obtained 
by readers of Park and Cemetery* in- 
terested or likely to require such machin- 
ery. 
E. T. Barnum, the Detroit, Mich., 
manufacturer of wire and light iron work 
is mailing to', the trade all over the[country 
their annual spring catalogue, which is 
just issued. Besides this general cataogue 
they are issuing a number' of others, each 
devoted to a special class of work, such as: 
“Builder’s Iron, Wire and Brass Goods;” 
“Fencing;”' “Jail Cells and Jail Work;” 
“Bank and Office Railings, Panels, 
Guards, etc.” Any of our readers likely 
to require work in any of these lines can 
secure a catalogue by writing and specify- 
ing the kind of work wanted. 
