PARK AND CEMETERY. 
Ill 
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} SITUATIONS WANTED, ETC. J 
■¥. Jf 
AdverlisemenU, limited to five lines, will be 
inserted in this column at the rate of so cents each 
insertion, 7 words to a line. Cash must acconi- 
fany order. 
Roderick Campbell, for 21 years Land- 
scape Gardener and’ Superintendent of 
the famous Forest Hill Cemetery, Utica, 
N. Y., is open to an engagement as 
Superintendent or laying out of new or 
the improvement of old cemeteries any- 
where in the United States or Canada. 
Address RODERICK Campbell, Utica, 
N. Y. 
Wanted, a man of experience to act in 
the capacity of superintendent in build- 
ing up and developing a modern lawn 
cemetery ; married man preferred ; good 
lodge house, healthy location, schools 
near by and reasonable salary, equal to 
f6oo per annum. Answer H., Lock Box 
12, Chattanooga, Tenn. 
Incineration and the Davenport, la.. 
Crematorium. A handsomely gotten up 
illustrated pamphlet issued by the Daven- 
port Cremation Society, containing des- 
criptions of the plant, arguments on this 
method of dispo-ing of the dead, rules 
and suggtstions and extracts from the 
opinions of well known people on the 
subject. 
Fouth Annual Park Report of the city 
of Indianapolis, Ind.. for the year i8y8. 
Illustrated vMth half tones. 
From Wm. L. Bennett, Navarre, O., 
a photograph of a corner of quaint gar- 
den of the Zoar Commune, Zoar, O. 
Michigan State Agricultural Col- 
lege Experimeni' Station, Lans 
ING. Mich., Botanical Depart- 
ment; — Bulletins Nos. i to 8, inclusive, 
two programs for Arbor Day Con- 
vention of Trees in 1888; Convention 
of Trees in i8yy. 
University of Nebraska Agricul- 
tural experiment Station, Lin- 
coln, Neb. Press Bulletin No. i. 
How to kill grasshopper.^. By Law- 
rence Bruner, Entomologist. 
The Tenth Annual Report of the Mis- 
souri Botanical Garden, St. Louis Mo., 
contains a biographical sketch of the late 
Dr. E. Lewis Sturtevant, a liberal contri- 
butor to the garden; a list of publications 
i-sued from the Garden in i 8 y 7 , i8y8; a 
list of the serial publications received at 
the garden library, and comprehensive, 
indexes to the contents of the ten annua! 
reports of the garden thus far issued. 
From B. Chaffee, superintendent. A 
number of handsome photographs of 
characteristic features of Oakwood ceme- 
tery, Syracuse, N. Y. 
From Oakwoods Cemetery, Chicago, a 
very fine photograph showing the corps of 
laborers and special cemetery police lined 
up in their distinctive uniforms. 
Trade Literature, Etc. 
Wilfred A. Brotherton, Rochester, 
Mich., Michigan wild flowers. Special 
wholesale circular of bulbs, tubers and 
other plants for summer planting. 
Wholesale catalogue and price list of 
American seeds of conifers •palms, trees, 
shrubs and herbaceous plants, etc., for 
fall planting. Pinehurst Nurseries, Pine- 
hurst, N. C. 
Dreer’s mid-summer catalogue, i8yy. 
Henry A. Dreer, Philadelphia. 
HOBSON’S STANDARD HORSE CARTS. 
Twelve Styles — I wo and Four Wheel— Wide 
and Narrow Tires— Steel Axles. Low rates ot 
freight from our Works— fa.— to 
all points. 
For the past ten years acknowledged by users 
to have no equal. Adopted by Iarmers,c9ntract- 
ors, miners, gardeners. cemetery authorities, etc., 
wherever the best is wanted. Manufactured by 
BOBSO?« & CO., 
Office, No. 17 state St., New York. 
^ SPECIAL r 
^ Picea Pungens, Blue. ; 
Golorado Blue Spruce. ^ 
Home Gro wn, Gtaf leil Slock. 
Specimen Trees, Shrubs, Ever- 
greens, Choice Conifers. 
We have two acres of fine speci- 
men plants of Picea Nordmaniana. 
Four acres of choice hardy Per- 
ennial Plants, including Iris Katmp- 
feri. Iris Germanica and Siberica, 
etc. Delphiniums, Phloxes. Ro-a 
Wichuriana, Hardy Periwinkle (Grave 
Myrtle). 
Special quotations and illus- 
trated descriptive catalogue free on 
P application to ^ 
I NEWPORT NURSERY CO., ^ 
^ FRANK BRUNTON, Mgr. ^ 
^ Office, Vernon Ave., NEWPORT, R. I. ^ 
BOOKS. REPORTS. ETC., RECEIVED, 
THE SELECT NURSERY 
YORK, Nebraska, has a choice collection of Ever- 
greens, Shrubs and Flowers for Parks and Cemeteries. 
We have the choicest Conifers an 1 Flowers from the Rockies, 
among them probably the best Silver Pungens and Concolor in 
America. C. S. HARRISON. 
Landscape, Garden and Plant 
Photographs. 
The Publisher of Park and Ceme- 
tery announces the following photo- 
graphic competition for iSyy. 
List of Premiums. 
No. I. Landscape and Garden Ef- 
fects. A first premium of Five Dol- 
lars and a second of Three Dollars is of- 
fered for the best series of not less than 
four photographs of picturesque land- 
scape and garden effects. These may 
include park or rural scenery, city or 
suburban out door art in gardening. 
No, 2. Trees, Shrubs and Plants 
OF the Open Air. A first premium 
of Five Dollars and a second of Three 
Dollars is offered for the best series of 
six photographs of trees, shrubs and 
plants. These may include wild trees 
or shrubs, or any plant grown in the 
open air, and may be in single speci- 
mens or groups. All photographs in 
this class should carry descriptions, in- 
cluding approximate dimensions. 
No. 3. Groupings and Effects. A 
first premium of P’ive Dollars and a 
second of Three Dollars is offered for a 
series of six photographs of picturesque 
groupings of plants and shrubs, or sug- 
gestive spots of wild plant life, in wood- 
land, park or home grounds. Rock or 
water gardens may be included in this 
section. 'Phese photographs should 
also have enough descriptive matter at- 
tached to make it possible of reproduc- 
tion in nature. 
For photographs retained by the pub- 
lisher that are not awarded prizes 
50 cents each will be paid. The com- 
petition will remain open until Septem- 
ber 1st. 
Suggestions. 
Care should be taken to keep back- 
grounds plain to avoid confusion in pic- 
ture. Figures of persons, garden utensils, 
and all objects liable to cause detriment 
to the picture or its object should be care- 
fully kept out. The photographs must be 
mounted singly on cards with white backs 
and must not be less than five inches by 
four inches. 
Instructions. 
The photographs may be of objects in 
the possession of either the sender or 
others; but there must be no question as 
to the right of photographing or using 
them. There is no limit as to number, 
and the publisher shall have the right of 
engraving and publishing any of the 
chosen photographs. They may be 
printed on any good paper that shows the 
subjects clearly, and that will make good 
half tones. 
The name and address of the sender, 
together with the name and description of 
the objects shown, should be plainly writ- 
ten on the back of each photograph. 
All communications relating to the com- 
petition must be addressed to R. J. 
Haight. 334 Dearborn Street. Chicago, 
and the class for which the photographs 
are intended should be marked on the 
parcel, which must also be labelled 
“Photographic Competition.” 
