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PARK AND CEMETERY, 
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 
ob.servation. 
Discussions of subjects pertinent to 
these columns by persons practically ac- 
quainted with them, are especially de- 
sired. 
Annual 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. I. HAIGHT, Publisher, 
334 Dearborn St., CHICAGO. 
Eastern Office: 
1 538 Am. T ract 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 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: 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. 
We were favored with a cordial visit 
last month from Mr. Torajiro Watase, of 
Tokyo, Japan, who has been spending 
some weeks in this country visiting our 
p irks and cemeterie.o, and investigating 
agricultural and horticultural interests. 
Mr. Wat ise occupies a prominent position 
in these interests in Japan. He is a 
member of the Higher Imperial Indus- 
trial Council, director of the Tokyo Plant 
& Seed Co , editor of the “Japan Agri- 
culturist, Counselor of the Cen ral Agri- 
cultural and Coriimercial Association of 
J ipan and a member of the Tokyo City 
Council. 
At a special meeting of the board of 
Park Commissioners of Hartford, Conn., 
held th ; litter part of January, Mr. W. 
O Burr, was elected to succeed the late 
Charles Dudley Warner. 
Mr. Charles F. O.irdiicr, secretary and 
treisiirer, Forest Park Cemetery, Trov, 
N. Y. sends a sample of a voucher de- 
signed by him. It is very complete in 
detail and would appear to cover the 
ground for which a voucher is adapted. 
Mr. Gardner will send a copy to anyone 
desiring it. 
Obitoaty. 
Andrew H. Ward, the agricultural 
Chemist of Boston, and an occasional 
contributor to these columns, died on 
January 5. 
John Henry Farrell, president of The 
Times-Union company of Albany, N. Y., 
a man of affairs and a trustee of St. Agnes 
Cemetery of that city, died on the evening 
of February 2, at his home, after a short 
illness. He was but 62 years of age, but 
his life had been one of remarkable 
energy and crowned with success, and 
his disposition and character endeared 
him to a large constituency. Appropriate 
resolutions were passed by the trustees 
of St. Agnes cemetery. 
William H. Barlow, president of Dale 
Cemetery, Sing Sing, N. Y., died in New 
York City, of heart trouble and grip, on 
January 12. He was a member of the 
Association of American Cemetery super- 
intendents, and keenly alive to its inter- 
ests. He had been in business in Sing 
Sing for 60 years, and was its oldest 
merchant. He leaves four sons and two 
daughters, and is mourned by a large 
circle. 
The Hon. S. P. V. Arnold, secretary of 
the “Pleasure Driveway and Park Dis- 
trict’’ of Springfield, Illinois, died on 
February i. Springfield having recently 
awoke to the necessity of parks, and one 
of the most active and earnest workers 
in the cause was Mr. Arnold, who in the 
prime of life has been called away. He 
was a man of broad views, who has left 
behind an honorable record and his death 
is sincerely mourned. Appropriate reso- 
lutions have been passed by the public 
organizations with which he had rela- 
tions. 
At the recent awards of contracts for 
trees and shrubs foi the Pittsburg Parks, 
the principal successful bidders were 
Thomas Meehan & Sons, Philadelphia, 
and Ellwanger & Barry of Rochester, 
N. Y. The lion’s share of the awards 
fell to the lot of Thomas Meehan & Sons. 
The Plant World Co., Washington, D. 
C., now includes within its covers the 
Asa Gray Bulletin, that publication 
having ceised individual publication on 
the concluding issue of its last volume. 
Its final number was a memorial of its 
late editor Mr. Thomas A. Williams, who 
unexpectedly died on Dec. 23. The same 
high tone of botanic information will be 
continued under the new regime. 
Apropos of the illustration of the Blood 
Leavtd Beech given in our last issue, the 
beautiful century seed catalogue of J. M. 
Thorburii & Co , of New York, contains 
a fine half-tone of a Copper beech grow- 
ing on the lawn of the “Lindens’’ at 
Norton, Conn. 
The approach of spring suggests house- 
cleauing, and a neglected matter in the 
cemetery is that of the tombstones and 
monuments. After the winter with its 
rain and frost, very few momriients come 
out looking their best. Stains of one 
kind and another, sap spots and irou 
rust greet the eye to a greater or less 
extent everywhere, and it would be an 
excellent plan for the sexton or superin- 
tendent to supply the men with some 
reliable material to aid in the work of 
cleaning up. It would go very far at a 
comparatively low cost to improve the 
appearance of the grounds. Among such 
materials that have received unqualified 
endorsement by monument dealers and 
others over the country is Randall’s Iron 
Solvent, for which B. C. Willison of no 
Boylston st., Boston, is the sole agent. 
From opinions expressed it is a most ex- 
cellent stain eradicator and it would be a 
good investment by cemetery people to 
make an experiment on their own account 
to remove the blemishes that so frequently 
mar the monumental work of a cemetery. 
BOOKS, REPORTS, ETC.. RECEIVED. 
Booklet of views of the Parks of Los 
Angeles, Cal. E. V. Mendenhall, Los 
Angeles, Publisher, price 25 cents. A 
very interesting collection of half-tone 
views of park scenery. 
T'niversity of Maine, College of Agri- 
culture, Orono. Bulletin No. 70. Oats 
as Grain and Fodder. Also circular 
containing particulars conceining sfcoit 
winter courses in Agricultural practice. 
Annual reports of Allegheny Cemetery, 
for years ending May 1 1898, 1899, 19CO. 
A handsomely gotten up phamphlet, 
copiously illustrated with half-tones and 
printed in colors. A very presentable 
souvenir to lot owners and others. 
Annual report of the Perk Commis- 
sioners of the city of Taunton, Mass. , for 
the year ending November 30, 1900. 
Illustrated with half tones. 
Montana College of .Agriculture — Agri- 
cultural Experiment Station, Bozeman, 
Montana. Bulletin 22, miscellaneous 
matter, by E. V. Wilcox, Ph. D. Bulletin 
23, Injurious Fruit Insects ard Insec- 
ticides. Bulletin 24, Sixth Annual 
Report of Officials and Instructors. 
Bulletin 25, Paris-green and London 
Purple in Montana. 
V. S. Dept, of Agriculture, Duty of 
water in the Gallatin Yalley, Montana. 
By Samuel Fortier, C. E., Prof, of 
Irrigation Engineering, Montana Col- 
lege of Agriculture. 
Report of the Forester for 1900, by 
Gifford Pinchot. An interesting summary 
of the work of this department for the 
year showing promising future results of 
a national character. 
Forest Heme Cemetery, Chicago, 111 , 
Illustrated descriptive pamphlets of that 
cemetery. 
Trade Literature, Etc., Received. 
W. F. Bassett & Son, Hammonton, N. 
J. Trade list of American plants and 
shrubs. 
Pinelnirst Nurseries, Pinehurst, N. C. 
Seeds of Conifers, Trees, Shrubs ancl 
Perennials collected in the altitudes of 
Arizona. 
\\ illiani Elliott & Sons. Seed annual 
for 1901. B'lower and vegetable seeds. 
Thorhnrn’.s Seeds. Thorbunis Century 
1901. J. M. Thortnirn & Co., one 
hundredth annual calalogiie, Cortlandt 
street. New York. Beautifully illustrated 
with half-tones. 
