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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
Park and Cemetery, 
ESTABLISHED 1890. 
An Illustrated Monthly Journal. 
Devoted lo 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 
Cemetery are among the most eminent 
Landscape Architects, Landscape Gar- 
deners and Horticulturists in the United 
States, whose practical articles make the 
journal 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 Am. Tract Society Bldg., New York. 
Subscription $i.oo a Year in Advance. 
Foreign Subscription $1.25. 
Correspondence solicited on subjects 
pertine7it to the columns of the jourjial. 
Officials of Parks and Cemeteries are 
requested to send copies of their re- 
ports . 
Photos;raphs and descriptive sketches 
of interesting features in parks, cemeter- 
ies, home grounds, streets, etc., are solic- 
ited from 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. MANNING, Tremont Building. 
Boston. Mass. Secretary, 
E. B HASKELL, Boston, Treasurer. 
The next meeting of the Association 
will be held at Detroit, Mich. 
Personal. 
A contract to prepare plans and specifi- 
cations for new cemetery grounds at Vin- 
cennes, Ind., has been awarded to Mr. O. 
C. Simonds of Chicago. 
Mr. Warren H. Manning, landscape 
architect of Boston, Mass., has been en- 
gaged to prepare designs for Lyndale park, 
Minneapolis, Minn., which has remained 
unimproved ever since William S. King 
presented this beautiful bit of ground to 
that city. The park commissioners think 
it advisable to have a completed scheme 
prepared, so that all the work done 
on the park may be to some purpose. Mr. 
Manning is also to lay out plans for im- 
proving beautiful Interlachen, to deter- 
mine the sites for the bridge at Interla- 
chen and the pavilion at Minnehaha, as 
well as to draft designs for them. 
Mr. William Stone has been unani- 
mously re-elected superintendent of Pine 
Grove cemetery, Lynn, Mass. 
Mr. John E. E. Goward, for eleven 
years past, superintendent and assistant 
superintendent of Mt. Hope Cemetery, 
Buston, Mass., died at his home in Matta- 
pan, March 29. He was born in Dorches- 
ter, 60 years ago, of revolutionary stock. 
He was a veteran of the Civil War, and a 
man of considerable prominence, several 
times a candidate for the legislature. 
Mr. S. S. Watson has been elected sup- 
erintendent of cemeteries of Dexter, Me. 
Friends of Mr. Geo. E. Rhedemeyer, 
superintendent Harleigh Cemetery, Cam- 
den, N. ]., will be sorry to hear of the 
loss he has sustained in the death of his 
little son Rodney Elbert, who died March 
28, 1S99, aged 2 years and five months. 
The funeral was held at the residence and 
the little fellow was laid away in Harleigh. 
Mayor Jones of Kansas City, Mo., has 
appointed Mr. William Barton to suc- 
ceed the late S. B. Armour on the board 
of park and boulevard commissioners. Mr. 
Barton is president of the Commercial 
Club and an aggressive public spirited 
citizen by all accounts. 
Mr. F. A. Sherman, superintendent of 
Evergreen cemetery, New Haven, Conn., 
chairman of the executive committee of 
the Association of American Cemetery 
Superintendents, for convention of 1899, 
to be held in New Haven, will be pleased 
to receive suggestions of topics for discus- 
sion at the convention. 
At a meeting of the Grand Rapids, 
Mich., Florists’ Club, a paper was read on 
the “Best Method of Heating Green 
houses,” and as a result of the paper and 
discussion the conclusion was quite gen- 
erally reached that the best returns were 
realized by using hot water under pressure. 
^ BOOKS. REPORTS. ETC., RECEIVED. ) 
Landscape Gardening, as applied to 
Home Decoration. By Samuel T. 
Maynard, Professor of Botany and 
Horticulture at the Massachusetts Agri- 
cultural College, etc, etc. 165 figures, 
including many full page half tones. 
12 mo. cloth, I1.50, New York; John 
Wiley & Sons, 1899. 
To enable the readers to obtain such 
knowledge as will help them to properly 
care for the ornamental trees, shrubs or 
plants that they may procure, and to so 
group and combine them with the lawn, 
the dwelling and other buildings, and 
with the surrounding conditions as to 
make not only a beautiful home picture, 
but also to harmonize with any beautiful 
homes or estates adjoining or near by, 
that the beauty may be as widespread as 
possible, is the effort attempted in Prof. 
Maynard’s book. There is as he truly 
says the great need of education on this 
important and growing feature of our na- 
tional life, ami that education is wanted 
not in the language of the schools, for that 
is too technical for general understanding, 
but while absolutely correct, it must be 
put into the every day language of our 
busy people to create as the catalogues 
say immediate effects. There is a de- 
mand for it, and we think such books, 
written in an instructive and interesting 
manner and withal on correct practical 
principles, will make the decoration and 
care of home grounds sooner or laier as 
much a part of residential life as the in- 
terior of the house. 
Annual report of the Smithsonian In- 
stitution, 1897, Washington City, 1898. 
This is the annual report of the Board of 
Regents of the Smithsonian Institution 
showing the operations, expenditures and 
condition of the Institution to July 1897. 
Besides the proceedings of the Board of 
Regents, the report of the Executive Com- 
mittee and the annual report of the secre- 
tary, the general appendix comprises a se- 
lection of miscellaneous memoirs of in- 
terest to collaborators and correspondents 
of the Institution, teachers and others en- 
gaged in the promotion of knowledge. 
Among these is a paper by Prof. Treltase 
of St. Louis, on Botanical Opportunities, 
and there are several of very great gen- 
eral interest. That on the new Library of 
Congress building belongs to the latter 
class of subjects. 
Fourth annual . report of the Board of 
Public Works, and the eleventh annual 
report as Water Commissioners of the 
City of Little Falls, N. Y., 1898. The 
custody and management of the cemeter- 
ies, parks and public grounds of the town 
are now by the charter vested in the Board 
of Public Works. 
Sixth annual report of the Board of 
l^ark Commissioners of the city of Cleve- 
land, 1898. This report is par excellence 
one of the handsomest, from the point of 
illustrations, that has come to hand. It 
is profusely illustrated, and with many 
half tone panoramic views, and it empha- 
sizes the fact that such park literature has 
a strong influence on the public thought 
in relation to parks. It familiarizes the 
salient features and cements interests in 
park development. 
Fourth annual report of the Cemetery 
Board of New Bedford, Mass., for the year 
1898. The Cemetery Commissioners are 
to be highly commended for the attractive 
manner in which this report has been pro- 
duced. In its letter press and illustrations 
it is a lesson in cemetery literature, and 
it contains features in the way of object 
lessons which cannot fail to create a fav- 
orable impression. It contains a repro- 
duction of the four plates published in 
Park and Cemetery some time ago, 
showing the old and new in cemetery 
practice which has been a valuable re- 
generative agency. 
Sixteenth annual report. Board of Park 
Commissions, City of Minneapolis, Minn., 
for 1898. This report is a worthy produc- 
tion of a most enlightened board, who'e 
work has been remarkably successful in 
park development. Its text is full of sug- 
gestiveness and may be read with profit by 
all interested in park matters. It is pro- 
fusely illustrated with half tones not previ- 
ously used in former reports. 
The Cottage Builder. We have re- 
ceived a copy of this monthly which is de- 
voted to house and home building and 
their improvement, and the issue to hand 
that of March, has a number of house de- 
signs and plans, together with reading 
matter appropriate to the aim of the jour- 
nal. It is published monthly in St. Louis, 
Mo. 
