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PARK AND CE/nniERY 
As'osiation of American Cemetery 
Superintendents. 
G. W. CREESY, “Harmony Grove,'' 
Salem, Mass., President. 
ARTHUR W. HOBERT, “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 descriptive sketches of 
interesting features in parks and cemeter- 
ies are solicited from our readers. 
Mr. R. Ulrich, who has had considera- 
ble practice as a park superintendent East 
and West, has formed a partnership with 
Chas. W. Leavitt, Jr., under the title of 
Ulrich & Leavitt, Landscape Architects 
and Civil Engineers, located at 15 Cort- 
landt street. New York. 
P.S. Peterson, the Chicago nurseryman, 
has been awarded by the Lincoln Park 
Commissioners the contract for setting out 
the trees required on the extension of the 
Lake Shore Drive, Chicago. Mr. Peter- 
son has furnished a large number of trees 
for Lincoln Park. 
Notwithstanding the general depression 
in business more parks aid cemeteries 
have been laid out and are being devel- 
oped than ever before. There is abundant 
evidence that park and cemetery superin- 
tendents have greater purchasing power 
through appropriations or funds on hand 
than any other similar class. The laying 
out and developing of public grounds re- 
quire labor and supplies of various kinds, 
among which may be mentioned: Steam 
road rollers, cement, asphalt and imple- 
ments used in road making; agricultural 
implements (such as plows, harrows, roll- 
ers, seeds, lawii mowers and other things 
required in making or keeping lawns); 
nursery stock, plants, flowers and seeds; 
fencing of every description, monuments, 
statuary, etc. The result of the election 
will loosen the purse strings of capitalists 
and there will no doubt be a boom in pub- 
lic work of every description. If you de- 
sire to sell any of the supplies used — or 
which ought to be used in parks, ceme- 
teries or public grounds — it will pay y’ou 
to advertise in P.A.RK ane Cemetery. 
RECEIVED. 
Descriptive pamphlet of the London 
Necropolis Company, London, England, 
and its cemetery of “Brookwood” at Wok- 
ing. Illustrations, price lists and other 
details. 
Transactions of the Cremation Society 
of England, No 9- — Lecture on Crema- 
tion at Ventuor, I. W.,by Rev. R. Ussher, 
St. Albans. — On recent proposals relating 
to Burial and Cremation, and the import- 
ance of Disinfecting all bodies dying from 
Infectious Disease; etc., etc., by Sir 
Henry Thompson, F. R. C. S., M. B. 
Descriptive pamphlet of Cedar Grove 
Cemetery, near Corona, L. I., with Rules 
and Regulations, Prices, etc. Illustrated 
with half tones. 
Manual of St. Francis’ Orphan Asylum 
Corporation and St. Lawrence and St. 
Bernard Cemetery Association, New Ha- 
ven, Conn. 
Year book of the United States De- 
partment of Agriculture, 1895. 
St. Agnes Cemetery, Albany, N. Y., 
Charter, Rules and Regulations; Catalogue 
of Lot Owners, etc., revised to June i, 
1896. 
Familiar Trees and Their Leaves. 
By F. Schuyler Mathews. New York, 
D. Appleton, 1896. 
The w'ealth of interesting study in tree 
life is scarcely appreciated, even in this 
day of educational privileges. The func- 
tion of trees, their variety, their individual 
characteristics are matters so intimately 
connected with our every day life that 
some knowledge of them would certainly 
be beneficial on general principles, and 
on the other hand would be very useful 
information in many directions. Mr. F. 
Schuyler Mathews’ writings on plant life 
are well known and appreciated, and in 
his work now issued he has provided us 
with a fund of information in a convenient 
arrangement of details, which affords in- 
teresting reading to the dilettante lover of 
trees and valuable matter to those need- 
ing it for more applied study. The book 
is illustrated with over two hundred draw- 
ings by the author, all sketched from na- 
ture. The list of trees described number 
over two hundred and may be classed as 
familiar, but of which most of us will ac- 
knowledge to have known very little be- 
fore perusing Mr. Matthews’ book. It is 
written on a plan which is carried through, 
classifying the leaves and illustrating them 
and describing the trees bearing such 
leaves under the classification. We fully 
endorse Prof. L. H. Bailey’s remarks in 
his introduction to this book; ‘-I am glad 
of every new book, therefore, which invites 
people to see and know Nature. That 
method of treatment is best which inter- 
ests the greatest number of persons. 
* * * As foliage is the most obvious 
feature of trees, aside from form, it would 
seem that leaf forms afford the most use- 
ful basis of introduction to a common 
knowledge of trees; and if, in addition, the 
artist draws and describes them as he sees 
them the result must be beneficent.” 
The New Horticulture. By H. M. 
Stringfellow, Galveston, Texas. Pub- 
lished by the author. 
To anybody interested in the practical 
experiences of an enthusiastic horticul- 
turist who, by dint of close application ta 
the work in hand and persistent study of 
its requirements, made a financial success 
of the cultivation of a few acres of unprom- 
ising land on Galveston Island, Texas, 
many years ago as a beginner, The New 
Hortictiltnre will be taken up with pleas- 
ure and not relinquished until the end. T& 
others to whom a description and discus- 
sion of radical methods in horticulture are 
attractive the book will afford a field for 
thought and possible suggestion. The work 
of the author has been confined, however, 
to the south, where conditions are dif- 
ferent from what we generally experience 
further north, w'hich, perhaps, must be 
given credit in following the author’s ex- 
periences. Unquestionably the book is 
written in an entertaining manner, and 
while many will differ and doubt upon the 
efficacy of much of the authors methods 
and practice, there is a large amount of 
clear and comprehensive experience 
graphically described, from which deduc- 
tions may be drawm and possible help de- 
rived for the reader’s benefit. 
The Garden, as Considered in Litera- 
ture by Certain Polite Writers, with a 
critical essay by Walter Howe. New 
York and London, G. P. Putnam’s 
Sons. 
The firm of G. P. Putnam’s Sons has 
been issuing a series of classics, so to 
speak, under the title of Knickerbocker 
Nuggets, among which The Garden is a 
gem. These booklets, from the book- 
maker’s standpoint, are equally worthy of 
high commendation. The title of the 
little work describes it, and we who are in- 
terested cannot but take delight in the 
perusal and study of the budget of literary 
effusions so daintily set before us. Within 
its covers we can walk with the Plinys in 
their Roman villas and gardens, learn the 
views of Lord Bacon, Sir William Temple, 
Addison, Alexander Pope, Lady Mary 
Wortley Montague, Thomas Whately 
and Oliver Goldsmith. We can become 
acquainted with William Kent, the 
“father of modern gardening,” from the 
eloquent pen of Horace Walpole, and 
get John Evelyn’s descriptions of Fences 
and Quicksets. Here is a literary feast on 
the fascinating subject of the garden — a 
handy little work to take up and set down 
as often as one wishes, but on each occa- 
sion sure of yielding a refining influence 
or a mental stimulus of a greater or less 
degree. 
