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PARK AND CEMETERY, 
ESTABLISHED 1890. 
Object: To advance Art-out-of-Doors, 
with special reference to the iniprovenient 
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 
tho.se engaged in landscape gardening, 
tree planting, park and cemetery devel- 
opment, etc., by sending early informa- 
tion of events that may come under their 
ob.servation. 
Discussions of subjects pertinent to 
these columns by persons practically ac- 
quainted with them, are especially de- 
sired. 
.\nnual Reports of Parks, Cemeter- 
ies, 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, etc., are solicited. 
John W. Weston, C. E., Editor. 
R. J. HAIGHT, Publisher, 
334 Dearborn St., CHICAGO. 
Eastern Office : 
J538 Am. Tract Society Bldg., New York. 
Subscription $1.00 a Year in Advance. 
Foreign Subscription $1.25 
ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN CEMETERY 
Superintendents: President. Geo. M. Painter, 
“West Laurei 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: 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. 
Will those who are in arrears for their 
.subscription to Park and Cemetery 
kindly forward the amounts due? 
Readers are again reminded to send to 
Park and Cemetery copies of pub- 
lished reports of parks, cemeteries, im- 
provement societies, horticultural socie- 
ties, etc., that may ha.e been issued this 
year. 
Readers will confer a favor upon the 
publisher by placing their orders with 
the advertising patrons of P.yrk and 
Cemetery, when circumstances will 
warrant so doing, and in every instance 
naming this journal when corresponding 
with advertisers. 
Personal. 
Mr. W. C. Hood, formerly of Elmwood 
cemetery. River Grove, 111 ., now occu- 
pies the position of landscape engineer, 
Fairlawu Park, Decatur, 111 . 
Mr. H. J. Doswell has been appointed 
superintendent of Lindenwood cemetery. 
Fort Wayne, Ind., to succeed his father, 
John H. Doswell, whose decease was 
recorded in the last issue. The superin- 
tendent has been connected with the 
cemetery as assistant to his father for 
about 19 years. 
Mr. Sid. J. Hare, Kansas City, Mo., has 
been commissioned to prepare plans for a 
cemetery at Salem, O. 
Mr. E. R. Roberts, landscape gardener. 
Point Defiance Park, Tacoma, Wash., 
advises us that the commissioners have 
decided to commence the building of a 
large conservatory in that park, with all 
modi rn improvements. 
Obituary, 
Mr. R. B. Campbell, superintendent of 
Holy Cross cemetery, Philadelphia, for- 
merly a member of the Association of 
American Cemetery Superintendents, 
died quite suddenly in September last, 
during the time of the convention at 
Cleveland. 
The Association of American Cemetery 
Superintendents has printed for distri- 
bution 5,000 copies of the paper on “The 
Sunday Funeral,” read at the recent 
Cleveland convention by the Rev. Geo. F. 
Houck. They can be obtained of the 
secretary, Mr. H. Wilson Ross, Newton 
Centre, Mass. 
Receipt is acknowledged with thanks 
for an invitation from the director of the 
Missouri Botanical Garden, to the Elev- 
enth Annual Banquet to Gardeners, Flor- 
ists and Nurserymen, provided for in the 
will of the laie Henry Shaw, which oc- 
curred at the Mercantile Club, St. Louis, 
November 3. 
By a recent purchase, Thomas Meehan 
& Sons, the nurserymen and landscape 
engineers of Germantown, Philadelphia, 
acquired two extensive properlies adjoin- 
ing their Dreshertown nurseries. These 
will be added to the already large acre- 
age and planted immediately with the 
better class of hardy ornamentals. It is 
evident that this firm believes in the 
policy of expansion. 
In a communication to the Milwaukee 
Sentinel, Mr. C. B. Whitnall advoca'es 
the use of the city’s garbage for soil 
making, by depositing it on certain 
areas, covering it with earth and allowing 
it to decompose and form soil which 
would be of great use in the parks and 
nursery gardens. Milwaukee spends some 
$45,000 per annum for garbage cre- 
mation. 
The Tower, recently erected in Castle 
Craig, Hubbard Park, Meriden, Conn., 
and presented by Mr. Walter Hubbard 
to the people, was informally opened 
by an oyster roast given by' the park 
commissioners of Meriden to the mem- 
bers of the city government . and promi- 
nent citizens. 
Referring again to the exceptionally 
fine fall and its effect on tender planting 
material, Mr. F. D. Willis, secretary- 
Oakland cemetery, St. Paul, writes that 
the first killing frost appeared Nov. 8. 
Until that day cannas, col seas, geran- 
iums, nasturtiums and all such flowers 
had been in fine bloom in the open, and 
only culeus, begonia and such extremely 
delicate plants were ripped by the earlier 
light frosts. The autumn colorings have 
been unusua’ly beautiful in that locality-. 
An excessive rainfall, 9.39 inches in Sep- 
tember and 7.55 in October, produced 
beautiful lawns but prevented grading 
improvement operations. 
The attention now being paid to muni- 
cipal improvement is further emphasized 
by the issue of “Midland Municipalities,” 
a journal devoted to the interests of city 
government and published in Marshall- 
town, Iowa. It is interesting to note 
that on the editorial staff are Frank G. 
Pierce, mayor of the city, and Prof. 
Thos. H. Macbride, well known in con- 
nection with improvement matters. Jn 
the first issue Prof. Macbride contributes 
a practical paper on “Street Improve- 
ments in Prairie Towns.” 
At the opening of the chrysanthemum 
show in Phipps’ conservatory, Schenley 
Park, Pittsburgh, the last Sunday in Oc- 
tober, some 15,000 people were admitted. 
This demonstrates the propriety of ex- 
tending park work to occasional special 
displays of flowers. 
The Association of Agricultural Col- 
leges and Experiment Stations will hold 
a convention in New Haven, Conn., Nov. 
13, at which a number of important 
papers by prominent teachers and experi- 
menters will be read. Prof. Bailey of 
Cornell University will discuss the nature 
study movement and Prof. Card of 
Rhode Island, The Educational Status of 
Horticulture. 
At the flower show of the New Jersey 
Horticultural Society held at Orange, 
N. J., November 14, 900 entries were 
made of exhibits by the school child- 
ren. A great deal of public interest is 
being manifested and the society de.'^ervcs 
commendation for extending such en- 
couragement. 
The Bomgardner Lowering Device Co., 
Cleveland, O., have made great improve- 
ments in their lowering device. It is 
now constructed so that it can be tele- 
scoped either way-, reducing it at will 
from 7 ft. 6 in. to 6 ft. 7 in. or from 34 in. 
to 22 in. in width, or vice versa. It can 
thus be made to conform to the dimen- 
sions of any grave. Three sets of web- 
bing are provided so as to accommodate 
the various requirements. They are get- 
ting out some cuts to illustrate these 
improvements which will appear in their 
advertisement in the next issue. 
BOOKS, REPORTS, ETC.. RECLIVtD. 
The Farmstead. The IMaking of the 
Rural Home and the Lay-Out of the 
Farm. By Isaac Phillips Roberts, 
Director of the College of Agiicnll- 
ure and Professor of Agiiculture in 
Cornell University. New York: The 
MacMillan Companv, 1900. Price, 
# 1 - 50 . ■ 
This latest work of Prof. Roberts is not 
only remarkably interesting but is broad- 
ly intructive. From a practical stand- 
point it discusses and illustrates the va- 
rious details connected with the farm 
house and buildings, as wtll as the sur- 
roundings, in the light of advanced 
experience. In the opening chapters he 
enters a plea for farm life, which cannot 
fail to carry conviction to the thoughtful 
reader, but it is from the view- j;oint of 
intellectual activity and not from nius- 
