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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
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 
Cemetery are among the most eminent 
Landscape Architects, Landscape (iar- 
deners and Horticulturists in the United 
Slates, 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: 
J 536 Am. T ract Society Bldg., New Y ork. 
Subscription $1.00 a Year in Advance. 
Foreign Subscription $1.25. 
Correspondence solicited on subjects 
pertinent to the colutnns of the journal. 
Officials of Parks and Cemeteries are 
requested to send copies of their re- 
ports . 
Photographs and descriptive sketches 
of interesting feattires in parks, cemeter- 
ies, ho 7 ne grounds, streets, etc., are solic- 
ited fro 7 n our readers. 
Association of American Ctmc' 
tery Superintendents. 
ARTHUR W. ROBERT, “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., Septem- 
ber. 5, 6, 7, 8. 
The American Park and Out- Door 
Art Association. 
CHARLES M. LORING, Minneapolis, Minn. 
President. 
WARREN H. MANNING, Tremont Building. 
Boston. Mass. Secretary. 
O. C. SIMONDS, Chicago. Treasurer. 
The next meeting of the Association 
will be held at Chicago, 111 . 
The American Society of Landscape 
Architects. 
JOHN CHARLES OLMSTED, Brookline. 
Mass. President- 
SAMUEL PARSONS, JR., St. James Bldg., 
New York. Vice-president. 
CHAS. N. LOWRIE, 156 Fifth ave , New 
York. Treasurer. 
DANIEL W. LANGTON, 115 East 23rd St- 
New York. Secretary. 
Mr. O. C. Simonds, landscape gardener 
of Chicago, has recently been ex imining 
the park sites of Tenney Park, Madison 
and Lakeside Park, Fon-du Lac, Wis. , 
preparatory to preparing plans for their 
improvement. 
The fifteenth annual meeting of the So- 
ciety of American Florists is m progress 
at Detroit, Mich., at time of going to 
press. A full and varied program has 
been ar-ranged, combining business and 
pleasure, and it is pretty generally cer- 
tain that the s.anguine anticipations of an 
enjoyable time will be realized. 
The Michigan State Horticultural Society. 
The summer meeting of the Michigan 
State Horticultural Society was held at 
Douglas, Mich. , August y-i I. A consid- 
erable number were present, but in point 
of localities represented the attendence 
was dis ippointing. As the last winter’s 
freeze and its disastrous effects on the 
fruit growing interests in what is known 
as the fruit belt of Michigan, was still 
painfully felt, thewo'kof the meeting 
largely partook of papers and discussions 
relating thereto, and the presence of 
Profs. Taft of Lansing, and Waite of 
Washington, lent importance to the pro- 
ceedings. Specially interesting to us was a 
paper by Mr. Thomas Gunson, Michigan 
Agricultural Collage, on the “Fruit- 
grower’s Flower Garden,” in which he 
grouped a goodly collection of trees, 
shrubs and plants for decorative effects in 
the door-yards. A resolution was passed 
committing the Michigan State Horticul- 
tural Society to the encouragement of out- 
door art, both among the farm.ers and 
townspeople, and to the inducement of 
towns and villages to form Improvement 
Associations. 
American Society of Landsape 
Architects. 
The American Society of Landscape 
Architects, recently organized, have 
electedthe following officers: John Charles 
Olmsted, Brookline, Mass., president; 
Samuel Parsons, Jr., New York, vice- 
president; Chas. N. Lowrie, New York, 
treasurer; Daniel W. Langton, New York 
Secretary. In addition to the above and 
to complete the Executive Committee, 
are Downing Vaux, New York; O. C 
Simonds, Chicago; Warren H. Manning, 
Boston. The objects of the society ?s 
stated in the constitution is “to promote 
good fellowship among its members and 
increase the efficiency of the profession.” 
It will interest many readers to know the 
qualifications and conditions of member- 
ship, which is conveyed in the following 
articles: 
4 Fellows shall be landscape archi- 
tects or landscape gardeners in good stand- 
ing. A landscape architect or landscape 
gardener in good standing is one who prac- 
tices the art of arranging land and land- 
scape for use and enjoyment, whose com- 
pensation is received directly from his 
client, and not directly or indirectly from 
labor, plants, or other material used m 
fitting land for use, or from persons 
supplying same. Fellows retiring from 
the practice of the profession and not 
engaging in business may be continued as 
Fellows by vote of the society. A Fellow 
shall be at least thirty years of age and 
shall have practiced the profession for five 
years. 
5. Juniors shall be students who are 
preparing to practice the profession; they 
shall have no vote and shall not be eligible 
to office. A Junior shall be at least 21 
years of age, and shall cease to be a Junior 
ten years after election. 
6. Associates shall be persons who have 
performed notable service in advancing 
the interest of the profession; they shall 
have no vote and shall not be eligible to 
office. 
OBITUARY. 
William McMillan. 
William McMillan, one of the hrst and 
foremost of the Park Gardeners of Amer- 
ica, is dead. On the 8ih of July he re- 
quested his daughter to write and say that 
he was not very well — that he had a numb- 
ness in the thumb and forefinger which 
prevented Ills writing personally— but it 
was expected that a months leave of ab- 
sence would entirely restore his health. 
The notice of his death from apoplexy on 
the nth of August fell therefore like a 
lightning flash. 
William McMillian was a Highlander. 
He was born in 1830 and was a resident 
of the United States for 40 years. The 
early years of this period was spent at 
Orange, N. J., and only a short while ago 
he took great pride in showing me trees he 
planted; now grown to full maturity. He 
was a glorious man, warm, loyal to his 
convictions, unswerving in his honesty, 
and a most devoted husband and father. 
It was beautiful to see the love his fam- 
ily — down to his little tots of grandchil- 
dren bore him. He was Highland through 
and through, and hundreds of his Buffalo 
friends will I am sure join with me in be- 
lieving that in Heaven itself he will re- 
ceive — “just a Highland Welcome.” 
Mr. McMillian was catholic in his 
tastes as a gardener, and could barely 
tolerate the hotch-potches which are be- 
ing made of many American parks. lie 
favored every phase ol, gardening in its 
proper place and every relaxation for the 
people, but deprecated monstrosities, and 
hated jumbled superficiality. Although 
he greatly disliked to write, his pen was 
occasionally enlisted in condemnation of 
such things in a way that was sure to carry 
conviction to intelligent minds. He was 
the constructor of the Park system of Buf- 
falo, N. Y., and was superceded after 27 
years of the most faithful service in a way 
(many of his friends think) hardly credit- 
able to Buffalo. The Buffalo Parks are 
the monument of William McMillan, and 
the least that can be done is to give one 
of them his name. 
At or near the age of 68 this rugged 
Scotchman entered upon the superinten- 
dence of the Essex Co., Park system at 
Newark, N. J., and vicinity. It is exten- 
sive, and McMillan went at it with energy, 
but It is only natural to believe that his 
heart beat warmly for his older creations. 
He leaves a widow and two married 
daughters. 
He was a member of the St. Andrew’s 
Society, and the Buffalo Society of Nat- 
ural Sciences. 7 . MaeP. 
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Henry Ross. 
In a recent communication, Mr. Geo- 
W. Creesy, conveys the sad intelligence 
of the death of Mr. Henry Ross, the ven- 
erable Honorary Superintendent of New- 
ton, Mass.. Cemetery Corporation, which 
occurred Thursday, July 27th at the age 
of 77 years and 3 months. Mr. Ross had 
been in feeble health for a year past, and 
at the last annual meeting of the corpor- 
ation held in June, he was retired from 
active duty and elected honorary superin- 
tendent, after a service of 38 years. His 
