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Among the rules and regulations recently adopted by the 
Cemetery Association, Lebanon, Ind., are the following; “All 
persons are prohibited from planting trees, shrubs or plants on 
or about graves and from planting flowers, except by consent 
and under direction of superintendent. Flowers are permitted 
only in vases or urns.” “Lot owners are prohibited from plac- 
ing on lots or graves all toys, cases, boxes, globes, shells, cans, 
jugs, bottles and bric-a-brac of every description; any such arti- 
cles found will be removed.” “No wooden benches, chairs, set- 
tees, head-boards or wooden articles of any kind allowed on the 
grounds.” “All foundations for all stone work must be built by 
the cemetery company. No head or foot stone over one foot in 
height above surface of lot allowed, and must be four inches or 
more in thickness. Only one stone can be placed at a grave lot, 
head and foot stones not allowed. Only one monument on a lot 
allowed, except by permission of directors.” This is a movement 
in the right direction. 
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In the annual report of trustees of the city cemeteries of 
Delaware, O., to the city council very favorable comment was 
made on the progress of the “Perpetual Care” fund, which is ac- 
cumulating under an addition of 20 per cent, to the prices of 
lots, and the sale of deeds to lot owners covering such care. Con- 
siderable improvement is contemplated on the “Free Ground,” 
in fact it is designed to place it in as good condition as any part 
of the cemetery. Each grave is now marked by a marble head- 
stone with name and date. This is a move in the right direc- 
tion. The following paragraph is a suggestive one to our smaller 
cemeteries: “Necessary rules and regulations have been adopted, 
from time to time as necessity required and although to some, 
they may seem arbitrary, yet to everyone, who gives the matter 
careful and thoughtful consideration, they will acknowledge the 
necessity ot them, for instance, the planting myrtle and other 
obnoxious plants. The yellow myrtle planted years ago has so 
taken hold of some sections, as to entirely kill the grass, and 
will co t the trustees a good many thousand dollars to eradicate 
it. These again pl.mt trees, not suitable for cemetery purposes, 
or roses and other plants, such matters have been entirely pro- 
hibited.” 
Missouri Botanical Garden. JOth Annual Report. 
Appropriately the tenth volume of annual reports of the 
Missouri Garden is devoted to a resume and exhaustive index 
of those preceding, issued from the institution as constituted 
upon its present footing. By the will of Henry Shaw a 
wealthy merchant of St. Louis who died in that city in 1889 
virtually the entire estate was left in the hands of a Board of 
Trustees to administer its affairs. 
The chair of Engelmann professorship ofbotany was estab- 
lished in the Washington University and with this exception 
practically the entire estate was bequeathed to the Garden for 
the advancement of science. Thus considerably over a million 
dollars affordr a revenue wherewith to prosecute the articles of 
said testament. Article 5 reads: ‘T also declare that scientific 
investigations in Botany proper, in vegetable ph) siology, the 
diseases of plants, the study of the forms of vegetable life, and 
of animal life injurious to vegetation, experimental investiga- 
tions in horticulture, arboriculture, etc., are to be promoted no 
less than instruction to pupils; but 1 leave details of instruction 
to those who may have to administer the establishment, and to 
shape the particular course of things to the condition of the 
times.” 
Each annual report sets forth the progress made and m a 
manner to demonstrate the trust to be wisely, progressively and 
s itisfactorily conducted. The trustees are citizens of the highest 
distinction in their respective professions. But to the cuter 
CEMETERY. 
world the direct responsible head of affairs is the director who 
shapes the policy of the institution, denotes its future and the 
channels through which it is to progress. Among Mr. Shaw’s 
advisors were Drs. Gray and Engelmann and by their influence 
the present Director, Dr. William Trelease, was selected as 
best fitted for the distinguished and onerous position and to 
whom the scientific productions during the past decade are di- 
rectly attributable. When the trustees assumed their duties the 
existing garden of some 47 acres contained a museum, conserva- 
tories, arboretum, fruiticitum and areas devoted to ornamental 
planting. Everything was dilapidated, unsystematized and anti- 
quated. 
Considerable funds were devoted to a proper draining of 
grounds, repairing of buildings and walks, and creating of li- 
brary and museums upon a most useful and modern basis. As 
trustees the board wisely fortified the contingencies certain to 
result from unimproved and non-revenue bearing property by 
establishing a liberal sinking fund. At present the interest is 
derived from the rentals of city buildings, but as the vast prop- 
erties, now a burden of taxation, are leased and bear revenue, the 
available funds at the disposal of the garden will yearly in- 
crease. 
In the meantime comprehensive plans for future develop- 
ment have been devised and all progress now developes in ac- 
cordance. The herbarium and library have grown until they 
compare favorably with any in the country; the director has a 
corps of assistants who find time to prosecute invaluable research 
in addition to their routine duties of superintendence and con- 
struction; a school for the instruction of young men in gardening 
is unquestionably the best in America and for the garden itself 
a design for its extension and improvement has been submitted 
by eminent landscape architects. Although the ornamental 
features of the grounds will always increase and when the pres- 
ent plans are fulfilled will offer a synoptical flora of the United 
States and the universe respectively arranged fn botanical se- 
quence, according to the Bentham and Hooker and Engles and 
Prauth systems, and although the extension and improvement 
of conservatories and geometiic gardening will always form a 
valuable attraction of beauty and botanical study, the greatest 
efficiency will be found in the Sicientific productions made pos- 
sible by the facilities offered for such work. We have witnessed 
but the conception of what is to follow and among it is a com- 
paratively prodigious quantity of monographs and scientific 
work of the best quality, as for instance: A revision of the 
North American Rumex by Dr. Trelease; the Yucca Moth and 
Yucca Pollination by the late Dr. Chas. V. Riley, a Revision of 
the North American species of Epilobium by Dr. Trelease, 
Preliminary Bibliography of the Tannoids by J. C. Bay; Mono- 
graph of the Agaves by A. 1 . Mulford; Monograph of the 
Sagitaria by J. C. Smith; Monograph of the Lemnace.ne by C. 
H. Thomson among which that upon yuccas, epilobiums and 
agaves are of the highest class. The tenth report contains an 
illustration of the late Prof. E. Lewis Sturtevant, the modest yet 
erudite scholar and eminent agricultural thinker who donated 
his rich and valuable pre-Linnean library and extensive card 
catalogue to the Garden just prior to his death. A feature of 
all the reports are the photo illustrations and pen drawings of 
garden scenes and plants. 
In the last annual report Prof. Lamson-Scribner contributes, 
“Notes on the Grasses in the Bernhardi Herbarium,” but the 
best service is rendered by an exhaustive index to the wealth of 
information in the preceding nine volumes. 
Demonstrations have been sufficient to merit the entire con- 
fidence now held in the botanical world that the Missouri 
Botanical Garden is developing with an energy and steadfast- 
ness unprecedented and with every indication of its continuance. 
E. M. 
