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ESTABLISHED 1830, 
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. 
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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- 
sired. 
Annuau Reports of Parks, Cemeter- 
i s, Horticultural, Local Improvement 
and similar societies 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, Geo. M. Painter, 
“West Laurel Hill,” Philadelphia; Vice-Presi- 
dent, Frank Eurich, “Woodward Lawn,” Detroit, 
Mich.; Secretary and Treasurer, H. Wilson Ross. 
Newton Centre, Mass. 
The Fifteenth Annual Convention will 
be held at Pittsburg, Pa., September, 1901. 
THE AMERICAN PARK AND OUT-DOOR ART 
Association: Presidant, L. E. Holden. Cleve- 
land, O.; Sacretary. 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. 
An interesting illustration of a valuable 
plant, Rubus Dumetorum is shown in the 
advertisement of Hiram T. Jones in 
another column. It is an English bram- 
ble, of a distinct species, and very useful 
for the covering of steep slopes and rough 
spots. It may be noted that the plant is 
well known in Kew and the Arnold Ar- 
boretum, Boston, and the illustration is 
from a plant propagated from parent 
plants in the latter institution. 
BOOKS, REPORTS, ETC.. REClIVlD. 
A 1900 Supplement to Nicholson’s 
“Dictionary of Gardening.” In 
two volumes. Volume i, now ready. 
fS per volume. George T. King, 145 
Arlington St. , Hyde Park, Mass. 
Up to within a recent date Nicholson’s 
Dictionary of Gardening stood unique in 
the comparative comprehensive manner 
PARK AND CEMETERY. 
in which it treated horticulture and the 
details of gardening from the practical 
and scientific standpoints. To all intents 
and purposes it was an Encylopedia, and 
its reputation has stood high from its first 
issue. But the old and valued work, as 
time has rolled along, with its wonderful 
progress, needed, to make it up to date, 
a supplement so as to include all the lat- 
est in discovery and research that has 
been added to the realm of knowledge in 
the later years. This has been done un- 
der the caption above and comprises 2 
volumes, the first of which containing 
376 pages and nearly 400 illustrations, 
has been delivered. The scope of the work 
as a whole is well explained in the preface 
of the first volume. It “aims at being 
the best and most complete work on gar- 
dening and garden plants hitherto pub- 
lished. * * * It is to he hoped 
that earnest efforts to attain accuracy, by 
consulting the best authorities, combined 
with no small amount of original reseach, 
have contributed to render the matter of 
the work not unworthy of the form in 
which it is presented to the reader. * 
* * Considerable trouble has been 
taken in revising the tangled synonymy 
of many genera, and in clearing up, as 
much as possible, the confusion that ex- 
ists in garden literature in connection 
with so many plants, popular and other- 
wise.” The supplement is produced in 
the same splendid manner as the work it- 
self, both in matter and style, the ablest 
authorities having edited and written the 
text, but the illustrations mostly in half 
tones, which are of a very high order, 
show the remarkable progress made in 
this art, and offer an instructive contrast 
with the excellent wood cuts that charac- 
terizes the earlier M'ork. The work when 
completed will maintain its position as 
being a necessary part of a library of 
every horticulturist and lover of the plant 
kingdom. 
Rules and Regulations for the Govern- 
ment of the Public cemeteries in the 
Town of Ware, Mass. Adopted March 
26, 1900. 
Annual Report of the Park Commis- 
sioners of the City of Taunton, Mass., for 
the year ending November 30, 1899. Ill- 
ustrated with half tones. 
Fortieth Annual Report of the Board 
of Park Commissioners of the City of 
Hartford, Conn., for the year ending 
April 30, 1900. Profusely illustrated with 
maps and half tones. 
Act of Incorporation, By-laws, etc. 
Eder Public Park, Elkton, Md. 
Obituary. 
Louis Menand, a prominent figure in 
American floriculture for the past 60 
years, died at his home in Menands, near 
Alban}', N. Y., on August 15, aged 93 
years. He was born in the province of 
Burgundy, France, in 1807 and after pass- 
ing his early years among the flowers and 
in the capacity of gardener in various sit- 
uations, he came to America in Septem- 
ber 1837, He began work in Astoria, L. 
I., and remained thereuntil 1840, when 
in the latter part of the year he removed 
to Albany, in thevici..ity of which he has 
since resided. His career has been re- 
markable, to which the record of numer- 
ous successes iii floriculture have con- 
tributed 110 small part, but to Mhich his 
efforts and accomplishments in an educa- 
tional way lend a great charm. His 
plant at Menands is quite extensive, and 
he had accumulated a large collection of 
rare plants. Sev 11 children survive him 
and his business is carried on by his son, 
Louis Menand, Jr. 
* « * 
Hiram Berry, for 40 years a resident of 
Rockland, Me., and for many years sup- 
erintendent of the Achorn cemetery, died 
in Rockland August 14, aged 66 years. 
* * * 
Azel K. Billings, the veteran superin- 
tendent of Canton Corner cemetery. Can- 
ton, Mass., died at his home in Canton, 
Sept. 3, aged 71 years. 
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The death of William Saunders, super- 
intendent of the division of experimental 
gardens and grounds, U. S. Dept, of 
Agriculture, Washington, D. C., who 
died at his home in that city September 
II, aged 77, is a matter for universal re- 
gret. He was born in St. Andrews, Fife, 
Scotland in 1822, and he has done great 
work in the cause in which, for so long 
he has been well known. Intended for 
the ministry, for which he studied in 
Madras, Inaia, where hisearly years were 
passed, he felt called upon to minister 
among plants rather than men, and he 
left his ministerial studies and appren- 
ticed himself to a gardener. Coming to 
London, he made the acquaintance of Mr. 
Meehan of Philadelphia, and they have 
always since been co-workers and friends. 
For many years they practiced together 
at Philadelphia, and Fairmount and 
Hunting Parks were designed by Mr. 
Saunders. Another great work was the 
laying out of the estate of Johns Hopkins, 
Baltimore. A very extensive list of p'i- 
vate works have also to be credited to Mr. 
Saunders. Washington owes him a great 
debt of gratitude, for its reputation as a 
beautiful residence city was practically 
made by him. Mr. Saunders was super- 
intendent of the gardens and grounds of 
the Department of Agriculture, Washing- 
ton, for 35 years, and he had gained the 
respect and veneration of his colleagues, 
both by his sterling and splendid charac- 
ter, and the vastly important and wonder- 
ful amount of work he had accomplished 
for horticulture and horticultural pursuits 
in the world. At his death Secretary 
Wilson called the officials in his office, 
and committees were appointed to ap- 
propriately recognize the loss the coun- 
try had sustained and to formulate ex- 
pressions of sympathy. At the time Cif 
his death Mr. Saunders had been absent 
from his duties only a month, and was 
confined to his bed but a week. 
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David G. Yates of David G. Yates & 
Co., a prominent nurserymen of Ger- 
mantown, Philadelphia, and who has 
been represented in the columns of Park 
and Cemetery, for many years died sud- 
denly at Holland Springs, Me., on Aug- 
ust II, in his 64th year. The firm of 
David G. Yates was originally Miller & 
Yates, but Mr. Charles Miller, now land- 
scape gardener of Fairmount Park sold 
his interest in the firm some years ago, 
and the business has since been con- 
ducted by Mr. David G. Yates, the sole 
owner. 
