PARK AND CEMETERY. 
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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 Towm 
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. 
D1SCU.SS10NS of subjects pertinent to 
these columns by persons practiplly ac- 
quainted with them, are especially de- 
sired. 
.Annual Reports of Parks, Cemeter- 
ies, Horticultural, Local Irnprovement 
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. 
R. J. HAIGHT, Publisher, 
334 Dearborn St., CHICAGO. 
Eastern Office : 
J 538 Am. Tract Society Bldg., New Y ork. 
Subscription $1.00 a Year In Advance. 
Foreign Subscription $1.35 
ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN CEMETERY 
Superintendents: President, Geo. M. Painter, 
"West Laurei Hili,” Philadelphia; Vice-Presi- 
dent, Frank Enrich, "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; 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. 
J. Clyde Power, superintendent of 
parks, Indianapolis, Ind., has been en- 
iraged to improve Riverside Park, Logans- 
port, Ind. 
The trustees of the Wiltwyck Rural 
Cemetery association, Kingston, N. Y., 
have elected Henry Down superintend- 
ent of the cemetery. 
Warren H. Manning, of Boston, has 
recently been west looking into a num- 
ber of commissions for park work which 
lie has in hand and incidentally lectur- 
ing on out-door art. He has undertaken 
t i"prepare plans for improvements in the 
]i irk properties of Des Moines, la. 
Samuel Parsons, Jr., landscape archi- 
tect, New York City, and formerly sup- 
erintendent of Central Park, New York, 
has been appointed landscape architect 
for the great boulevard and park scheme. 
so long contemplated for Washington, 
D. C. Plans for the project are now be- 
ing prepared. 
After long and faithful service, Mr. 
Craig, superintendent of the cemeteries 
of Hamilton, Ontirio, has resigned. Ap- 
propriate resolutions were passed by the 
board of trustees. 
Obituary, 
We regret to record that Mr. J. H. 
Doswell, superintendent Lindenwood 
cemetery. Fort Wayne, Ind., pass d away 
on October 13, after a sad sickness ex- 
tending over the last 3 years He was a 
charter member of the A. A. C. S. and the 
last convention he attended was that of 
Cincinnati in 1897. 
The maintenance of flower beds on the 
station grounds of the Chicago & North- 
western railway during the summer is to 
be discontinued, and natural gardening 
will take their place. 
The paper read by Rev. G. F. Houck, 
at the Convention of the A. A. C. S. at 
Cleveland on “The Sunday Funeral; and 
Funeral Car,’’ is having a wide circula- 
tion in the Catholic press. 
Writing of the good effect our recent 
remarks on the Tacoma parks, Tacoma, 
Wash., had upon the community and 
press of that locality, Mr. E. R. Roberts, 
superintendent, says: “We have a great 
long contract and fora long time to come 
to get the people to realize what natural 
beauties are. For myself I have been 
alone for years fostering the love of na- 
ture in humanity, in fact ever since I 
left my grandmother’s garden which was 
always beautiful and inviting — constant 
love reigned in her garden.’’ 
The awarding of prizes in the garden 
planting contests inaugurated by Mr. W. 
J. Stevens, Superintendent of Public 
Schools, Carthage, Mo., was an interest- 
ing and successful event held in the High 
School building, Oct. 6th. Although 
some 1,500 pupils entered there were 
only 300 competitors at the final award- 
ing dates, but the institution of the work 
as a remarkable incentive to energy and 
healthful moral growth was thoroughly 
established. Ray Johnson, the boy who 
took the f 10 prize for his vegetable gar- 
den, has grown vegetables on his fraction 
of an acre to the amount of I4.80 per 
acre. The system will be improved next 
year to equalize conditions and give all 
competitors as far as possible equal 
chances. Annual prize giving for child- 
ren’s gardens is a feature worthy of ex- 
tended adoption. In connection with 
the above enteitainment the Central 
school gave an exhibit of wild fruits and 
flowers. 
BOOKS, REPORTS, ETC.. RECEIVED. 
Joy .and Other Poems. By Mrs. Danske 
Dandridge. New and enlarged edition. 
G. P. Putnam’s Sons, New York and 
London. Price ft. 25. 
One feature of interest attaching itself 
to this book of poems is the fact that the 
readers of Park .and Cemetery are well 
acquainted with Mrs Dandridge from her 
delightful descriptions of the plants and 
flowers cultivated in her summer home, 
“Rose Brake,’’ Shepherdstown, W. Va. 
The main feature of this book of poetry 
is, however, its intrinsic merit and coupled 
with that, its fascinating allurement. It 
is fairly impossible on first taking it up 
to lay it down again. We read from poem 
to poem surprised at the peculiar varie- 
ties of rhythm, and that gift of descript- 
ive verbiage which is peculiarly the poets 
to round out his deeper meanings. Rob- 
ert Herrick is held in reverence for his 
charming nature poems, but the old 
Elizabethan poet had not the culture of 
the nineteenth century to absolve his 
writings from the grossness of his times, 
and it would seem to have been reserved 
for the writer of “Joy’’ to take up the 
poetic strain of that rich period of En- 
glish letters and impart to it the chasten- 
css of to-day. In refined, yet exuberant 
terms the delight of sou'ful humanity in 
natures choice gifts is set forth, and a rare 
genius is displayed in the interpretation 
and expression of the manifold sugges- 
tions evolved from nature’s mysterious 
workings. The collection covers a broad 
field and in every direction she treads, 
graceful, delicate fancies answer the 
touch of her wand, and she imparts them 
to us and explain^ them in a tender and 
womanly fashion, and in a style hitherto 
unknown in American poetry. Mrs. 
Dandridge’s uplifting and charming book 
will be a delightful accompaniment to 
the material study of art out-of-doors and 
our readers will never regret a closer ac- 
quaintance with such inspiring verse. 
Hedges, Windbreaks, Shelters and 
LiA'E F'ences. A treatise on the plant- 
ing, growth and management of hedge 
plants for country and suburban homes. 
By E. P. Powell. Illustrated, 121110, 
pp 140, cloth. Orange Judd Co. New 
York. Price 50 cents. 
The above is quite a practical work on 
the subject on which it treats and since 
the main question is an important one, 
either in relation to the landscape or 
home grounds, and one withal which ad- 
mits of discussion, the book is a timely 
one. The anthor knows whereof he 
writes and writes in pleasing and attract- 
ive style; he argues the questions thought- 
fully and intelligently, and at the same 
time gives all the necessary practical de- 
tails connected with choice of material 
planting care and maintenance. Not 
only is the book of value to the farm and 
large areas of land but equally so to the 
home and its surroundings, for the direc- 
tions while being full for the carrying out 
of particular purposes, they are concise 
and to the point. To the rapid develop- 
ment of electricity the author gpves much 
credit for the movement now in progress 
from the city to the country home, and 
for the latter the book affords a fund of 
information to the end of increasing 
beauty and delight in its associations 
through the medium of out-door improve- 
ment. 
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The Graceland Cemetery, Philadelphia, 
Pa. Descriptions and views, together 
with Rules and Regulations. This ceme- 
tery, now in rapid course of development, 
is described and illustrated in the above 
pamphlet. The site inclr des features of 
historical interest, which are shown in 
handsome halftone plates. The improve- 
ments are being carried out on modern 
lines in all respects. 
Annual Report of the Park Depart- 
ment of the City of Cincinnati, 1899. 
