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PARK AND CE/HETERY 
Association 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. G. W. Creesy, the recently elected 
president of the A. A. C. S., writes that 
he made a number of very pleasant visits 
en route home from the St. Louis conven- 
tion. At Riverside, Cleveland, he had 
the distinction of being the first person to 
cross the beautiful new bridge which had 
just been completed. In company of Su. 
perintendent Dix of Riverside he went to 
Akron, a distance of thirty-eight miles, 
by electric cars and visited Mr. Sargent at 
Glendale. At Rochester, N. Y., a pleas- 
ant stop was made with Mr. Shepard, whose 
cemetery •'■is to surpass all others if con- 
tinued along its present lines of improve- 
ment.” At Oakwood, Syracuse, Mr. 
Chaffee was fouud to be nicely situated in 
his new home just outside the cemetery 
grounds. These social visits to and from 
the conventions are very pleasant and 
profitable features of the superintendents^ 
vacations, which many of the superintend- 
ents make the most of. 
The Michigan Agricultural College, 
Lansing, Mich., is offering excellent op- 
portunities to young people either en- 
gaged in, or contemplating the immediate 
use of the knowledge obtained, short 
courses in special lines of practical farm 
work, both as relating to stock and culti- 
vation of the land. For this work the col- 
lege has exceptionally good facilities: 
Herds of thoroughbred stock, large forcing 
houses and greenhouses, which with labora- 
tories, library and competent instructors, 
makes instruction comprehensive and 
practical. Commencing January 4 next, 
there will be offered a six week’s course in 
dairy husbandry, also a course of lectures 
and demonstrations in dairy chemistry. 
Another course will be live stock husband- 
ry. Two other special courses will be 
along horticultural lines. It is estimated 
that the minimum cost including fees and 
board near the college, but excepting rail- 
road fares and extra expenses, will not ex- 
ceed $25. Persons of good moral charac- 
ter, over 15 years of age, will be admitted 
without examination. To the faithful and 
enthusiastic student this will be a great 
boon, and will serve for a foundation upon 
which to carry on further work at home 
impelled by the ambition thus encouraged. 
RECEIVED. 
Proceedings of the twelfth annual con- 
vention of the Society of American Flor- 
ists, held at Cleveland, O., August 18, 19, 
20 and 21, 1896. 
By.laws and Rules and Regulations of 
Oak Grove Cemetery, Delaware, O. 
New York Agricultural Experiment 
Station. Bulletin No. 107, new series, 
August, 1896. Report of Analysis of Com- 
mercial Fertizers for the Spring of 1896. 
L. L. Van Slyke. 
r Bulletin No. 208, September, I896. The 
Real Value of “Natural Plant Food.” L. 
L. Van Slyke, Geneva, N. Y. 
Oberlin (O.) Cemetery Association — Its 
officers, history, constitution, rules and 
regulations. 
The twelfth annual issue of the Colum- 
bia Pad Calendar has come to hand with 
several appropriate changes, many illus- 
trations and suggestive thoughts for every 
day of the year. Among the topics are bi- 
cycling, outdoor life and good roads. The 
cycling fraternity, as well as the general 
public, appear ito entertain a decidedly 
friendly feeling for the Colurnbia Calen- 
dar, and its annual advent is looked for- 
ward to with interest and pleasure. It is 
issued by the Pope Manufacturing Com- 
pany, Hartford, Conn., and may be ob- 
tained by addressing the Calendar De- 
partment and inclosing five 2-cent stamps 
Mortuary Law. By Sidney Perley 
of the Massachusetts Bar. George B. 
Reed, Publisher, 4 Park street, Bos- 
ton, Mass. Large 12 mo. Law sheep. 
220 pages. Price, $3. 
This useful volume is a timely one for 
cemetery officials, for as the preface to the 
work says that while “the great body of 
mortuary common law continues to be 
maintained in the United States,” various 
state legislatures have changed and ex- 
tended it in certain respects, and this in- 
formation inauthentic form is a necessary 
and valuable adjunct of the cemetery su- 
perintendent’s and official’s library. The 
increasing attention given to the public 
health, and the strictness with which the 
laws in this respect are being enforced, 
makes it imperative that cemetery associ- 
ations should watch with the greatest of 
care the requirements of such legislation, 
and even anticipate it by careful amend- 
ments of the rules and regulations as cir- 
cumstances suggest. The following enu- 
meration of the heads of the various chap- 
ters of this work will explain its scope: 
Last Sickness; Records of Deaths and Bur- 
ials; Mutilation of Dead Bodies; Property 
in Dead Bodies; Custody of Dead Bodies 
Disposition of Dead Bodies; Undertakers; 
Funerals; Funeral Expenses; Moniime.its, 
Gravestones, etc.; Permits to Transport; 
Bury and Exhume Dead Bodies; Transpor- 
tation of Dead Bodies;Exhumation of Dead 
Bodies; Cemeteries; Prohibition of Ceme- 
teries; Acquirement of Cemetery Lands; 
Cemeteries as Nuisances: Cemeteries as 
Charities; Rules and Regulations;Taxation 
Sale; Mortgage and Partition of Ceme- 
tery Property; Care and Conduct of Ceme- 
teries; Rights and Liabilities of Lot Own- 
ers; Replevin; Larceny, Desecration of 
Cemeteries; Opening Highways Through 
Cemeteries. Abolition of Cemeteries; ju- 
risdiction of Courts. In this work there are 
over 700 citations from American and 
English law reports. 
Flower Queries — Five hundred Ques- 
tions on Practical Floriculture An- 
swered and Topics Discussed. Price 
25 cents. J. W. Darrow, Publisher, 
Chatham, N. Y. 
This is a series of questions and answers 
on practical niattersof floriculture in pam- 
phlet form. It is divided into the follow- 
ing chapters: Soil and General Cultiva- 
tion; Bulbous Plants. Lilies, Culture and 
Care; Rose Culture; Vines or Climbers; 
Shrubs; Fernsand Palms; Insects and Dis- 
eases; Miscellaneous Queries; Floral Hints; 
Index. 
Testimonials, 
“We are and have been subscribers of 
your valuable paper. Park and Ceme- 
tery, and prize it highly.” 
R. H. Oakley, 
Treasurer Wyuka Cemeterv. l.incoln. 
Neb. 
“Park and Cemetery is very useful to 
us, and each number is carefully read.” 
Geo. A . Clugston, 
Secretary Mansfield Cemetery Associa- 
tion, Mansfield, O. 
“I shall be happy to contribute some 
matters of interest to add to tbe spicy 
columns of your almost perfect publica- 
tion.” B. D. Judson, 
Superintendent St. Agnes Cemetery, Al- 
bany, N. Y. 
