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AsLOCiatioD of American Cemetery 
Superintendents. 
Q. W. CREESY, “Harmony Grove,’’ 
Salem, Maas., President. 
AkTHURW. HOBART, “Lakewood,'' 
Minneapolis, Minn., Vice-President. 
F. EURICH, Woodlawn, Toledo, O., 
Secretary and Treasurer. 
Publisher’s Department. 
Park Commissioners and Cemetery 
trustees are requested to send us copies of 
their reports. 
Photographs and descripiive sketches of 
interesting features in parks and cemeter- 
ies are solicited from our readers. 
The Massachusetts Horticultural Society 
lot Tremont street, Boston, Mass., desire 
to obtain as soon as possible the first three 
numbers of volume i of the Modern Cem- 
etery , and also the Index and Title page 
of same volume. 
The Pasadena & Pacific Railway Co., 
Los Angeles, Calif., is desirous of obtain- 
ing the addresses of cemeteries having an 
electric or other railroad operated through 
them, especially on which funeral trains 
are run. 
Mrs. Fanny Copley Seavey, whose con- 
tributions to these columns have made 
her familiar to our readers, has been visit- 
ing this month the cemeteries at Lexing- 
ton and Louisville, Ky., and illustrated 
descriptions of these cemeteries from her 
pen will in due course appear in PARK 
AND Cemetery. Mrs. Seavey will visit 
other cemeteries in the near future. 
Leonard W. Ross, for many years 
Superintendent of City Cemeteries of Bos- 
ton, has entered into partnership with 
Herbert A. Horton, under the firm name 
and occupation of Ross & Horton, Land- 
scape Architects. Their location is Tre- 
mont Building, Boston. 
A call has been made looking to the 
formation of a national society of garden- 
ers. It emanates from the New York 
Gardeners’ Society, and information may 
be obtained by addressing James 1 . Don- 
lan, secretary, 52 West 28th street. New 
York City. In the call the necessity fora 
national society is attributed to the in- 
fancy of horticulture in this country, 
and that its developement depends on 
the gardeners; while successful horticul- 
ture meets so many obstacles due to cli- 
matic differences and local peculiarities. 
It reiterates the advantages to be obtain- 
ed by association, such as the interchange 
of experience and ideas, personal acquain 
tanceship, and the possible raising of 
the standard of the profession. Those 
interested are earnestly invited to assist 
in the project. 
Missouri Botanical Garden. Seventh 
Annual Report, St. Louis, 1896. This 
annual volume from the Missouri Botani- 
cal Garden, not only contains the reports 
of the Trustees carrying out the will of 
the late Mr. Shaw, in themselves of great 
interest, but also the results of investiga- 
tions and researches, and the progress of its 
educational features. Among the con- 
tents of the present volume are three 
papers on Botanical subjects, and an ad- 
dress by Dr. Henry Wade Rogers on “the 
value of a Study of Botany.” The sub- 
jects are liberally illustrated. 
The By-Laws, Rules and Regulations 
printed for distribution by the Springville 
N.Y., Rural Cemetery Association, was 
accompanied with a photograph of the 
front of the grounds, which shows the care 
bestowed upon the property. The Secre- 
tary in a letter says: Park and Ceme- 
tery has been of “immeasurable assist- 
ance in bringing our Board to adopt the 
feature of Perpetual Care.” He says the 
arbitrary features at first appeared ob- 
jectionable, but the general sentiment 
has entirely changed and it meets with 
entire approbation. The cemetery now 
contains twenty-five hundred burials 
which is about the number of inhabitants. 
There has just been issued, published by 
the Illinois Engraving Co., Chicago, 
Souvenir of Lincoln Park, Chicago, Price 
25 cents. It is profusely illustrated with 
excellent half-tone engravings from pho- 
tographs taken on the ground, and with 
letter press interesting in matter as in 
typhographical execution, it makes a han- 
dy and attractive compendium of the 
features of Lincoln Park which have made 
that resort of world wide reputation. 
In referring to Park and Cemetery 
in connection with some comments on 
the care of cemeteries and parks. The 
North American Horticulturist, publish- 
ed at Monroe, Michigan, recommends it 
as ‘-deserving of wide circulation” and 
“an exceedingly valuable help in right- 
ing the matters referred to.” 
RECEIVED. 
Second Annual Report of the Board of 
Trustees of Pleasure Drivew’ay and Park 
Distri'-t of Peoria, 111 ., for fiscal year end- 
ing June I, 1896. 
Revised list of premiums offered by the 
Horticultural Society of Chicago, to be 
awarded at the Annual Fall Exhibition, 
November loth-iqth, 1896. 
The Northampton Works; Illustrated 
Catalogue of Dumping Horse Carts, 
Sprinkling Carts, etc.. Manufactured by 
Hobson & Company, Tatamy, Pa. Prin- 
cipal office, No. 4, Sto-ne street. New 
York. This catalogue is fully illustrated 
and the many types of wagons, etc., des- 
cribed. The dumping cart is an exceed- 
ingly useful article in many respects; its 
lightness, facility of handling, and adapt- 
ability in confined situations should re- 
commend it. With wide tires it could be 
made a great labor saver in clearing up in 
park and cemetery work. 
From B. D. Judson, Slipt. St. Agnes 
Cemetery, Albany, N. Y,, Announce- 
ment to Proprietors of Lots Concerning 
Perpetual Care of Lots. 
CATALOGUES. 
Catalogue No. 37. Autumn, 1896. 
Choice Hardy Trees, Shrubs, Bulbs and 
Plants for Fall Planting. Fred’k W. Kel- 
sey, 14s Broadway, New York. 
Assignee’s Sale of Hardy American 
Plants. Highlands Nursery, Kawana, N. 
C., offered without reserve. Thomas F. 
Parker, Assignee, Kawana, N. C. 
T. V. Munson & Son Nurseries Cata- 
logue, Denison, Texas. 
Funk & Wagnalls Company, New 
York, have just received a single order 
from one firm for 100,000 copies of their 
celebrated ^‘Standard Dictionary of the, 
English Language f amounting at retail 
to nearly one and a quarter millions of 
dollars. This is the largest single sale of 
so large a work ever made in America. 
Previous to this one large transaction, 
over 100,000 copies had been issued, and 
the company is still receiving many large 
orders from its subscription agents 
throughout the world. 
The advantages of autumn planting and 
transplanting for deciduous trees and 
shrubs and many other plants cannot be 
overestimated; and especially in latitudes 
where a considerable rise of temperature 
succeeds, comparativly suddenly, the 
frosts of winter. It takes time to repair 
the injuries to plants and trees occasion- 
ed by the cutting of roots and fibres when 
taking them up for removal, and the fall 
affords the opportunity with less risk than 
any other time of year. The cut roots 
and rootlets can become calloused, and 
probably other fibres will be thrown out 
before freezing to help withstand the ef- 
fects of the change. N ursery catalogues 
nowadays contain much valuable infor- 
mation on plant life and in that of the 
Parsons & Sons Co., the well known Kis- 
sena Nurseries, of Flushing, N. Y., this 
question of fall planting receives consider- 
able attention and valuable suggestions 
are given. 
