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AssooiatioD of American Cemetery 
Superintendents. 
O. C. SIVIONDS, "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 
17. 
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 ol 
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 list of names, 
we return our thanks. There are many 
more that we should kear from. 
Subscibers 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. 
The twenty-first annual convention of 
the National Nurserymen’s Association 
held in Chicago this month brought to- 
gether a large number of representative 
nurserymen from different parts of the 
country. 
Among the many papers read and dis- 
cussed was one by Prof. L. A. Bailey of 
Cornell University on “The Nursery 
Lands of New York State.” 
Resolutions were adopted in favor of 
the highest possible tariff. 
The meeting next year will be held at 
St. Louis, Mo. 
Personal. 
Prof. Lucien M. Underwood of the Ala- 
bama Polytechnic Institute, Auburn, Ala., 
has been elected professor of Botany in 
Columbia College, New York, to succeed 
Prof. Britton, who becomes director of the 
new botanical garden in that city. 
Mr. C. S. Bell, Supt. Lexington Cem- 
etery Co., Lexiugton, Ky., paid a visit to 
his native country, Scotland, last summer 
after an absence of over 50 years. While 
in Scotland he was particularly interested 
in the trees he helped to plant when a boy, 
and especially in a Douglas spruce which 
he was familiar with in 1838 as a small 
tree four or five feet high, but which is 
now a beautiful specimen. This is a tree 
Mr. Robert Douglas of the Waukegan 
Nurseries, favors so much. 
Wm. Sal way. Superintendent Cemetery 
of Spring Grove, Cincinnati, O., with 
other members of his family, have just left 
for a three months trip to Europe. After 
spending a short time in Scotland, Eng- 
land will be visited and possibly the jour- 
ney extended to the continent. 
J. T. Royal, Supt. Highland Cemetery, 
Wichita, Kan., sends a model of a hook 
he uses to raise boxes from the grave 
when disinterring, or in case a box be- 
comes fast. It is a double hook, one arm, 
which opens, is hinged a certain distance, 
(in model somewhat over half way) up the 
straight bar of the other arm, and a loose 
ring drops over both arms to secure a 
tight hold on the object grasped. 
Considerable friction seems to have re- 
cently developed in the governing board 
of Forest Hills Cemetery, Boston, which 
has resulted in several unexpected chang- 
es. Mr. John G. Barker, for many years 
the superintendent, is no longer connected 
with that cemetery, although we under- 
stand strong pressure is being brought to 
bear to secure a continuance of his ser- 
vices. Mr. Barker will be pleased to hear 
from his many friends among the super- 
intendents and may be addressed at Hor- 
ticultural Hall, Boston. 
The improved cemeteiy records, lot 
books and indexes furnished by the pub- 
lisher of this paper are now in use at more 
than one hundred and, fifty cemeteries. 
Nothing is more important in cemetery 
work than the keeping of the records in 
such a manner as to insure preserving all 
of the particulars in regard to every inter- 
ment, and the system followed in the 
above mentioned books leaves nothing to 
be desired in this respect. Descriptive 
circulars will be mailed on application to 
R. J. Haight, 334 Dearborn St., Chicago. 
Received. 
Price List, Rules and Regulations of 
Pine Grove Cemetery, Lynn, Mass. 
Rules and Regulations, Mount St. 
James Cemetery, Watertown, Conn, 
From Mr. Thedore A. Leisen, 
engineer and superintendent. Report of 
Board of Park Commissioners, Wilming- 
ton, Delaware, 1895. This is the fii'st reg- 
ular report issued and it contains a histori- 
cal account of the system together with 
other pertinent informatiion, and is beau- 
tifully illustrated with half-tones, wood 
engravings, and maps. 
Mount Auburn. By Frank Foxcroft, 
copyrighted. Reprinted from the New 
England Magazine. A descriptive pamph- 
let of the celebrated Mt. Auburn Cemetery, 
Boston, Mass., beautifully illustrated with 
a number of prominent monuments and 
statues and characterstic views of the 
place. 
General Descriptive Catalogue and 
Garden Guide for the South, of the 
Southern California Acclimatizing Asso- 
ciation, Santa Barbara, Calif. This associa- 
tion has done and is doing splendid work in 
introducing and acclimatizing new plants. 
As is stated its work is especially adapt- 
able to the South, but its catalogue also 
indicates what plants may be used in 
colder sections of the country. 
J. M. Underwood, Secretary and Sup- 
erentendent, Lakewood Cemetery, Lake 
City, Minn., writes: “I think you would 
do well to encourage all cemetery asso- 
ciations to introduce the permanent care 
feature, and am grateful to Park and 
Cemetery for calling my attention to 
it.” 
TESTIMONIALS. 
James C. Scorgie, Supt, Mt. Auburn, 
Cemetery, Boston, says: “I am very glad 
of the opportunity of returning, if I can, 
some of the benefits I have received from 
the reading of your paper.” 
We take four copies of Park and 
Cemetery, and value it very highly. 
Long may you continue in the good work 
of educating in the line of beautifying and 
perpetuating the plots made sacred by the 
interment of loved ones. 
E. B. He 7 islee, Sup't. 
Greenwood Cemetery, Zanesville, O. 
Mr. R. J. Haight: I have taken a great 
interest m extending the circulation of 
‘‘Park and Cemetery” because it is 
most worthy of encouragement and sup- 
port by those whose profession and work 
cannot be successfully practiced without 
reading the valuable contributions appear- 
ing each month in its columns, and still 
keeping up with the times. B. J. Jttd.ton, 
Supi. Agnes Cemetery, Albany, N. Y. 
