PARK AND CEMETERY, 
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Park and Cemetery* 
ESTABLISHED 1890, 
An Illustrated Monthly Journal. 
Devoted to the advancement of Art- 
out of Doors, with special reference to 
the improvement of parks, cemeteries, 
home grounds and the promotion of the 
interests of Town and Village Improve- 
ment Associations, etc. 
The regular contributors to Park AND 
Cemei’Ery are among the most eminent 
Landscape Architects, Landscape Gar- 
deners and Horticulturists in the Lfnited 
Slates, whose practical articles make the 
j lurnal one of great value to any one 
identified with landscape work. 
John W. Weston, C. E., Editor. 
R. J. HAIGHT, Publisher, 
334 Dearborn St., CHICAGO. 
Eastern Office : 
1317 Ana. Tract Society Bldg., New York. 
Subscription $1.00 a Year in Advance. 
Foreign Subscription $1.25. 
Correspondence soliciied on subjects 
pertinent to the columns of the jourti.iL 
Officiats of Faiks and Cemeteries are- 
requested to send copies of their re- 
ports . 
Photosqraphs and descriptive sketches 
of interesting features in parks, cemeter- 
ies, home grounds , streets, etc., are solic- 
ited fro 7 n our readers. 
Association of American Ceme-- 
tery Superintendents. 
ARTHUR W. HOBERT. ‘'Lakewood,” 
Minneapolis, Minn ., President. 
Wm. stone. "Pine Grove,” 
Lynn, Mass., Vice-President. 
F. EURICH, Woodward Lawn, Detroit, Mich. 
Secretary and Treasurer. 
The Thirteenth Annual Convention will 
be held at New Haven, Conn. 
The American Park and Out- Door 
Art Association. 
CHARLES M. LORING, Minneapolis, Minn. 
President. 
WARREN H.MANNLNG.Tremont Building, 
Boston. Mass. Secretary. 
E- R HASKELL, Boston, Treasurer. 
The next meeting of the Association 
will be held at Detroit, Mich. 
Mr. John Storer Cobb, Honorary Presi- 
dent of the Nevv England Cremation 
Society, is compiling a historical account 
of the cremation movement in the United 
States. 
In extending sympathy to Mr. John M. 
Koxell, Superintendent of Oakland 
Cemetery, St. Paul, Minn., on the recent 
death of his father, one of the early 
settlers of Minnesota, it is worthy of rec- 
ord that six sons of the deceased gentle- 
man acted as p illbearers. The funeral 
occurred on March 4 and was very largely 
attended. The burial took place in Oak- 
land Cemetery. 
Mr. P'. A. Sherman, Superintendent 
Evergreen Cemetery, New Haven, Conn., 
Chairman of the Executive Committee of 
the Association of American Cemetery 
Superintendents, wishes to be informed 
immediately by members of the associa- 
tion upon what subjects they would hke 
to hear papers at the next convention, and 
in suggesting subjects to remember that 
it is desirable that new subjects be pre- 
sented. 
Mr. Charles Nichols, Superintendent 
of Fairmount Cemetery, Ne\\ark, N. J , 
and widely known as the father of the 
Association of American Cemetery Super- 
intendents, has written Park and 
Cemetery, commending the good work 
done by it in behalf of the association^ 
and urging the members of that organi- 
zation to co-operate with the publisher in 
furthering the interests of Park and 
Cemetery. Our good friend shows his 
‘■faith by his works” by increasing his 
order to six copies of Park and Ceme- 
tery for distribution among the officers 
and lot owners of Fairmount Cemetery. 
This is indeed a substantial way of show- 
ing one’s appreciation. * ■» ■» A letter 
of a similar nature comes from Mr. J. F. 
Mabin, president of Oak Hill Cemetery, 
Owosso, M ich , with an order for seven 
copies of Park and Cemetery. Mr. 
George V'an Atta, Superintendent of 
Cedar Hill Cemetery, Newark, O., in 
renewing his annual subscription for 
seven copies of Park and Cemei'ery, 
says: “We cannot keep house without 
Park and Cemetery.” 
To Cemetery Superintendents and 
Managers. 
Desiring to make a list of cemetery 
officials of the country for the use of the 
Association of American Cemetery Sup- 
erintendents 1 would deem it a favor if 
you would send at once to Frank Eurich, 
Secretary, Detroit, Mich., the names and 
titles of all persons connected in an 
official capacity with your respective 
cemeteries. Kindly give this immediate 
attention. Artlmr IV. Hobert, President 
A. A. C. S. 
BOOKS. REPORTS, ETC. 
RECEIVED, \ 
Municipal Functions. A Study of 
the Development, Scope and Tendency 
of Municipal Socialism, by Milo Roy 
Maltbie. Ph. D. Published in Muni- 
cipal Affairs by Reform Club Com- 
mittee on Municipal Administration, 52 
William street. New York. 
Of the many valuable monographs 
issued under the general head of the 
quarterly magazine. Municipal Affairs, 
this one on Municipal Functiops is per- 
haps the broader in its scope and signifi- 
cance. It is an effort to meet the demand 
for more knowledge concerning muni- 
cipal questions, which is developing so 
rapidly and marks an era in our progress; 
and a prominent feature in this demand 
was the desire to know more about the 
experience of other cities. The basis of 
this monograph was a schedule of in- 
quiries, which, after condensation, occu- 
pied 25 pages, and this as a foundation 
and a letter from the state department to 
its representatives abroad, as well as 
communication with every local source 
from which information could be hoped 
for, resulted in surprisingly full returns, 
150 American and 350 foreign cities hav- 
ing been heard from. These returns 
were edited and verified from every avail- 
able resource, and the data secured were 
supplemented by exhaustive examination 
of a vast amount of secondary material. 
The plan of this work is: A brief dis- 
cussion of the histone development of 
municipal functions; a consideration of 
the scope of present municipal activiiies ; 
and an analysis of the “various forces 
which determine the extent of municipal 
socialism, to discover present tendencies 
and forecast future developments.” This 
is the scope of the monograph, and it 
does not at this time attempt to discuss 
what a municipality ought to do, simply 
what It does. A copious index makes 
reference a simple turning of leaves. 
Municipal Affairs is conducting one of 
the most potent educational campaigns 
ever yet prosecuted. 
Quarter Acre Possibilitie-s. By 
Frank H. Nutier, Landscape Architect, 
and Walter J. Keith, Consulting Archi- 
tect, Minneapolis, Minn. Price, |i 
This work contains some 25 plates, 
showing how to embellish suburban lots 
in an artistic and effective manner, with 
descriptive text and other illustrations. 
There is also a short dissertation on land- 
scape gardening and the improvement of 
school grounds. The striking feature 
connected with the production of this 
book is the fact that landscape art and 
architectural art have combined to secure 
good results. It is gratifying to note this, 
for to secure the best conditions in home 
grounds such co-operation is eminently 
necessary. Generally speaking, the de- 
signs set forth are excellent in arrange- 
ment and detail and offer numerous sug- 
gestions to the citizen desirous of im- 
proving his surrounding on a high plane, 
and moreover the text is full of instructive 
and interesting matter besides being ex- 
planatory of the designs. 
Spraying for Profit. A practical 
hand-book of the best methods for 
suppressing the more common injurious 
insects and fungous diseases. By 
Howard Evarts Weed, M S. Recently 
Entomologist Mississippi Experiment 
Station. The Horticultural Publishing 
Co., Griffin, Ga., 1899. Price, 20 cents. 
This is a handy little book and full of 
information in a very practical shape on 
the subject of spraying, the materials 
used and the methods and appliances 
adopted for their distribution. Spraying 
has become so important a feature of the 
progressive horticulturist’s work, and the 
literature on the subject so scattered, that 
any convenient and reliable vademecum 
treating the question in a succinct and 
pi actical way is much tobedesired. This 
little book can be recommended. 
Twenty-ninth annual report of the 
Buffalo Park Commissioners, January, 
1899. Besides the reports of the superin- 
tendent of parks, the pamphlet contains 
those of the Director of the Botanical 
Garden and the Curator of the Zoological 
Garden. A map of Delaware Park is 
appended. 
