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ESTABLISHED 1890. 
Object: To advance 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 Improvement Associations, 
etc. 
Contributions : Subscribers and 
others will materially assist in dissemin- 
ating information of peculiar interest to 
those engaged in landscape gardening, 
tree planting, park and cemetery devel- 
opment, etc., by sending early informa- 
tion of events that may come under their 
observation. 
Discussions of subjects pertinent to 
these columns by persons practically ac- 
quainted with them, are especially de- 
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Annual Reports of Parks, Cemeter- 
i s. Horticultural, Local Improvement 
and similar soeieties are solicited. 
Photographs or sketches of specimen 
trees, new or little known trees and 
shrubs, landscape effects, entrances, build- 
ings, et'., are solicited. 
John W. Weston, C. E., Editor. 
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ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN CEMETERY 
Superintendents: President, Wm. Stone, Pine 
Grove, Lynn, Mass.; Vice-President, George M. 
Painter, West Laurei Hili, Philadelphia; Secre- 
tary and Treasurer, H. Wilson Ross, Newton 
Centre, Mass. 
The Fourteenth Annual Convention will 
be held at Cleveland, O., September ii, 
12 and 13. 
THE AMERICAN PARK AND OUT-DOOR ART 
Association: President, L. E. Holden, Cleve- 
land, O.: Secretary, Warren H. Manning, Tre- 
mont Building, Boston, Mass,: Treasurer, O. C. 
Simonds, Chicago. 
The Fifth Annual Convention of the 
Association will be held at Milwaukee, 
Wis., June, 1901. 
Personal. 
The many friends and acquaintances of 
Mr. H. Wilson Ross, Secretary and 
Treasurer A. A. C. S., Newton Centre, 
Mass., w'ill join with us in expressing 
condolence with Mr. Ross in his recent 
bereavement. On July 22, his only child, 
a boy, nearly 4 years old, departed this 
life. Such a break in the home circle 
appeals to all and calls forth profound 
S) mpathy. 
John C. Olmsted, of Olmsted Bros., 
landscape aichilecls of Boston, Mass., 
prepared the plans and will give attention 
to the development of the new city park 
of Waterlowm, N. Y. 
The Tussock moth is bus}’ in Detroit, 
Mic!’.. devouring ih leaves of the shade 
trees, and Snpt. Coryell of the Park 
Commission recommends, as the best 
thing that can be done, that the white 
blotches on the trunks and large limbs of 
the trees be scraped off. 
PARK AND CEMETERY. 
Society of American Florists. — Department 
of Plant Registration. 
M. H. Walsh, Wood’s Holl, Mass., 
registers new rrse “Debutants,” a seed- 
ling of Wichuraiana crossed with Baron- 
ess Rothschilds; flowers pink, double, 
fragrant, produced in profuse clusters. 
A climbing rose of unquestioned hardi- 
ness. The same gentleman also registers 
new rambler rose, “Sweetheart,” a cross 
between “Wichuraiana” and “Brides- 
maid”; flowers double, 2j4 inches in 
diameter, borne in profuse clusters. The 
buds are a beautiful pink; the expanded 
flowers white, very fragrant and perfectly 
hardy. Wm. J. Stewart, Secretary. 
Books, Reports, Etc., Received. 
Cyclopedia of American Horticulture, 
comprising suggestions for cultivation 
of horticultural plants. Descriptions 
of the species of fruits, vegetables, 
flowers and ornamental plants sold in 
the United States and Canada, together 
with geographical and biographical 
sketches. By L. H. Bailey, Professor 
of Horticulture in Cornell University, 
assisted by Wilhelm Miller, and many 
expert cultivators and botanists. Illus- 
trated with over 2000 original engrav- 
ings. In four volumes, Vol. H, E-M. 
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The second volume of this work recent- 
ly to hand continues the matter through 
its alphabetical sequence to M, and the 
same favorable comment expre.ssed on 
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readily be accorded the second. It is 
unnecessary again to critically discuss its 
style, methods, or arrangement. The 
vast amount of matter contained in its 
pages and the generally excellent quality, 
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flaws and enable the editor to modify or 
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second volume contains some 550 pages, 
similar in .style in all respects to the first 
part, except that parallel columns are 
adopted for indexing the specific, varie- 
tal and synonymous names of the large 
genera. It contains a number of lengthy 
articles, among which are ^horticulture 
and landscape gardening, which arc 
treated in the manner one would be led 
to expect from Prof. Bailey’s extended 
work in these branches of knowledge and 
practice. The undertaking of such a 
colossal work deserves success in all 
respects, and this second volume empha- 
sizes the impreision that it is one which 
gives promise of immense value to the 
horticultural interests and their progress 
in the United States. 
The Century Book of G.ardening. A 
Comprehensive Work for every Lover 
of the Garden. Edited by E. T. Cook, 
London: “Country Life,” Covent Gar- 
den, W. C.,and George Newnes, L’t’d., 
Southampton .street, Strand, W. C. 
If there could exist a human being not 
in love with a garden a perusal of the in- 
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presenting the scope of the work it intro- 
duces, it carries the reader over the many 
phases of gardening in a manner so at- 
tractive that a new enthusiasm spring.s up 
at the very thought of the innumerable 
garden delights it suggests. The object 
of the work is well expressed in this same 
introduction: “It is to help the home 
gardener that this book has been prepared. 
Here, whether his garden be large or 
small, it is confidently believed that he 
will discover what he requires. The ar- 
rangement is simple — alphabetical wher- 
ever possible — and information is given 
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every one can understand. The whole 
work of the flower, fruit and vegetable 
garden has been considered from the very 
beginning, and the laying out and drain- 
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blossoms in the borders, of fruit from the 
orchard or hothouses, and of the kitchen 
products from the useful garden bevond.’’ 
One could hardly think of a thing con- 
nected with gardening that has not been 
touched upon and in a manner commen- 
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realize in large measure its reliability. 
Bearing in mind the extract given above 
and looking through its pages the im- 
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said that it is a large and beautiful book, 
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garden library. 
It is appropriate, also, to mention in 
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A Litte Talk About Michigan For- 
estry. — Michigan Forestry Commis- 
sion. Charles W. Garfield. President. 
This pamphlet* prepared by the Michi- 
gan Forestry commission, should be a 
forcible stimulant to Michigan intelli- 
gence in the direction of re-foresting its 
denuded areas and preserving, so far as is 
judicious, what is left of the extraordin- 
ary forest wealth of but a comparatively 
few years ago. It contains a wealth of 
argument in the way of questions, sug- 
gestions and opinions of those of author- 
ity, and sets forth the damage that has 
been done and the steps to be taken to 
remedy the situation in a way that must 
be convincing. Forestry reform everv- 
where is the crying question of the hour, 
and Mr. Garfield’s pamphlet is a vigorous 
and instructive effort in a right direc- 
tion. 
