PARK AND CEMETERY. 
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Under architecture, on page i8, although 
not absolutely wanting, is very meagre m 
ideas upon the arrangement of rooms m 
an artistic and practical manner and the 
outlines and locations of houses. In illus- 
trating a border mound, on page 103, the 
soil is given 100 per cent grade, which 
every engineer knows will not withstand 
wa-ihings of ordinary rains. Numerous 
errors of spelling are noticeable in the 
plant names, which can be overlooked, 
but ought, nevertheless, to be accurate in 
a book purporting to be a guide for 
amateurs. Many of the illustrations are 
electrotypes from nurserymen’s cata- 
logues; several are reproduced from 
photographs, and we find none of the 
sketches worthy of emulation as designs. 
Throughout there appears to us a lack of 
good arrangement in topics; a want of 
lucid conveyance of, and scantiness of 
principles; but contrariwise there appears 
a perfunctory treatment that raises the 
text into prominent presumption in 
assuming the title of a work on landscape 
gardening. M. 
The Henry Shaw Medal. 
The Director of the Missouri Botanica 
Garden, St. Louis, desires to call atten- 
tion to the fact that in June, 1893, the 
Board of Trustees of the Garden founded 
a gold medal to be known as “The Henry 
Shaw Medal for the introduction of a val- 
uable plant,” and to be awarded each 
year, when practicable, for a new plant of 
value for cultivation, exhibited in St. 
Louis, as a part of the premiums or prizes 
to a flower show or exhibition provided 
for in the will of the late Henry Shaw; 
provided that the judges or other persons 
making awards at such exhibition shall 
certify that said medal is “awarded for a 
plant of decided merit for cultivation, not 
previously an Article of North American 
commerce and introduced to such com 
merce by the exhibitor during the year 
in which said award is made.” 
Numerous plants worthy of the award 
of this medal are each year introduced 
into the American trade, and the under- 
signed will at any time gladly furnish de- 
t died information to their introducers, 
as to the lime of holding the flower show 
at which they may be exhibited in com- 
petition for the medal. This year the 
medal v/ill be offered as a part of the pre- 
miums placed in the hands of the St. 
Louis Florists’ Club for award at their 
annual Chrysanthemum Show, to be held 
in St. Louis, November 14-18, 1899. 
St. Louis, Mo. William Trelease. 
There will be an exodus of botanists 
from the University of Chicago this sum- 
mer. !• ive instructors in the department 
of botany will leave the university at the 
close of the present school ) ear to accept 
positions in other institutions. They have 
all been enrolled as graduate students and 
instructors for three or more years and 
have recently been granted the degree of 
doctor of philosophy. Miss Florence 
Lyon, who is the only woman graduated 
from the department, will go to Smith 
Collegeat Northampton, Mass,, to become 
an assistant to Professor Ganong. J. F. 
Roberts has accepted a position in the 
Shaw Botanical Gardensin St. Louis, and 
will begin h's duties in the autumn. Otis 
W. Caldwell, who received his degree a 
year ago, has been appointed head of the 
biological department of the new South- 
ern Illinois Normal at Charleston. He 
will have entire charge of the work in 
science. W. D, Merrell goesto Rochester 
University, where he was graduated only 
a few years ago. He will be placed at the 
head of the botanical department of his 
alma mater. W. R. Smith, a graduate 
of McMaster University of Toronto, Can- 
ada, returns to his alma mater after two 
years’ graduate study at Chicago to be- 
come head professor of botany there. The 
places left vacant by the departure of 
these five scientists at the university will 
be filled by recently appointed fellows in 
the science department. The depart- 
ment at Chicago is in charge of Dr. John 
M. Coulter, former president of Lake 
Forest University. — Tunes- Herald , Chi- 
cago- 
To Destroy Snails and Woodlice. 
A correspondent in the Ameriean Flor- 
ist asks some one to tell him what will 
destroy snails and woodlice. He has 
been using slaked lime, bnt it does not 
kill. A reply is given as follows: 
“Where slaked lime, frequently ap- 
plied, fails to banish snails, they should 
be trapped by means of fresh pieces of 
cabbage or lettuce leaves, on which they 
feed freely and are easily caught at night 
with the aid of a lantern. To get rid of 
woodlice take one part Paris green, one 
part oatmeal and three parts brown sugar. 
Mix these ingredients thoroughly and 
scatter lightly along the sides of the 
benches. The woodlice will soon disap- 
pear, but care should be taken to place 
the poisonous mixture well beyoncl the 
reach of children and domestic animals. ’ 
Killing Poison Ivy. 
Mr. 1 . N. Hill, Superintendent of 
Dell Park Cemetery, Natick, Mass., in 
speaking of the evil effects of poison ivy, 
says that he had a patch in his grounds that 
he sprinkled with line salt when wet, which 
resulted in killing it out. This is a sim- 
ple remedy well woith trying. 
\ BOOKS. REPORTS. ETC., RECEIVED. \ 
Eighth annual report of the Board of 
Park Lommissioners of the City of St. 
Paul, Minn., for the year ending March 
1, 1899. Illustrated with full page half- 
tones. An interesting feature of this re- 
port for which Mr. Nussbaumer, the sup- 
erintendent, should be credited, is the 
amount of detail given concerning the 
names, number and distribution of plants 
and trees over the sjstehi. 
The Kensico Cemetery, New York, 
annual report to the lot proprietors for 
the year 1898, with rules and regulations. 
This report is an excellent specimen of 
cemetery literature, both in illustrations 
and general appearance. 
Transactions of the Cremation Society 
of England. No. 12. 
Special list of unique and useful Trees 
and effective Shrubs. Fred’k. W. Kel- 
sey, New Y ork. 
U. S. Experiment Station Bulle- 
tins: 
Massachusetts Agricultural Col- 
lege, Amherst. No 61. The As- 
paragus Rust in Massachusetts. 
Maine Agricultural experiment 
Station, Orono. No. 51. Feeding 
Stuff Inspection; No. 52. The Spray- 
ing of Plants. 
University of Nebraska, Lincoln. 
No. 58. Annual Forage plants for sum- 
mer pasture. — Twelfth Annual Re- 
port of the U. S. Agricultural Ex- 
periment Station. 
The Marcus & Amherst Cemetery As- 
sociation, Marcus, la., has issued circular 
No 2, dated May, containing four pages 
of matter particularly interesting to its 
lot owners, and displaying a very exem- 
plary progressive spirit. It gives the last 
annual report, an explanation of the finan- 
cial methods of the association and certain 
of its more arbitrary rules and regulations, 
with reasons therefore. Such literature is 
sure to bring good results in our smaller 
cemeteries, and large ones too for that 
matter. 
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