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PARK AND CEMETERY, 
Park and Cemetery. 
ESTABLISHED 1890. 
An Illustrated Monthly Journal. 
Devoted to the advancement of 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 Improve- 
ment Associations, etc. 
The regular contributors to Park and 
Cemetery are among the most eminent 
Landscape Architects, Landscape Gar- 
deners and Horticulturists in the United 
States, whose practical articles make the 
journal one of great value to any one 
•identified with landscape work. 
John W. 'Weston, C. E., Editor. 
R. J. HAIGHT, Publisher, 
334 Dearborn St., CHICAGO. 
Eastern Office: 
1 536 Am. T ract Society Bldg., New Y ork. 
-Subscription $i.oo a Year in Advance. 
Foreign Subscription $1.25. 
Correspondence solicited on subjects 
pertinent to the columns of the journal. 
Officials of Parks and Cemeteries are- 
requested to send copies of their re- 
ports . 
Photographs and descriptive sketches 
cf interesting features in parks, cemeter- 
ies, home grounds, streets, etc., are solic- 
ited from our readers. 
Association of American Ceme- 
tery Superintendents. 
Wm. stone. “Pine Grove, ■’ 
Lynn, Mass., President. 
GEORGE M. PAINTER. “West Laurel Hill;’’ 
Philadelphia, Vice-President. 
H. WILSON ROSS, “Newton.” 
NewtonvUle, Mass, Secrecarv and Treasurer. 
The Fourteenth Annual Convention will 
be held at Cleveland, O. 
The American Park and Out- Door 
Art Association. 
CHARLES M. LORING, Minneapolis, Minn. 
President. 
WARREN H. MANNING, Tremont Building. 
Boston Mass. Secretary. 
'O. C. SIMONDS. Chicago. Treasurer. 
The next meeting of the Association 
w'lll be held at Chicago, 111. 
The American Society of Landscape 
Architecis. 
lOHN CHARLES OLMSTED, Brookline, 
Mass. President. 
SAMUEL PARSONS, JR., St. James Bldg., 
New York. Vice-president. 
CHAS. N. LOWRIE, 156 Fifth ave , New 
York. Treasurer. 
DANIEL W. LANGTON, 115 East zSrd St., 
New York. Secretary, 
■We acknowledge with many thanks the 
receipt of an invitation to the Tenth An- 
nual Banquet to Florists, Nurserymen 
an 1 Market Gardener?; held November 
j8 , at the Mercantile Club, St. Louis. 
This banquet is provided for in the will of 
the late Henry Shaw of St. Louis. 
Mr. James Jensen, superintendent of 
Humboldt Park, Chicago, has been en- 
gaged to take charge of the grounds con- 
nected with the Villa Palatina, a resi- 
dence property at Lake Geneva, Wis., 
which has been recently purchased by Mr. 
E. G. Uihlein, a late park commis- 
sioner of Chicago. Mr. Uihlein is an en- 
thusiastic horticulturist and the grounds 
in question promise to give a wide scope 
to Mr. Jensen’s ability. 
Association of American Cemetery Super- 
intendents. 
The printed report of the Proceedings 
of the New Haven and Hartford Conven- 
tion, will be ready for distribution Decem- 
ber I. Correspondence in relation thereto 
may be addressed to, 
Frank Eurich, Woodward Lawn 
Cemetery, Detroit, Mich. 
The Michigan .City, Ind., council re- 
cently voted a salary of |ioo each to its 
park commissioners but they declined to 
accept and asked that the money be re- 
turned to the treasury. These gentlemen 
are John G. Mott, Chas. Porter and W. 
H. Shoenman. 
The snnual inspection of Illinois nurse- 
ries, required by law of the state entomo- 
logist, has been finished. The work was 
done by assistants of Prof. S. A. Forbes, 
state entomologist and professor of zoology 
at the University of Illinois. The total 
number of nurseries found was 274, about 
equally distributed throughout the state, 
the largest being in central and northern 
Illinois. The average cost of inspection 
paid under the law, by nurserymen was 
$5.38 for each nursery. 
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Obituary. 
Mr. James A. Bain, superintendent i f 
Highland and Wood Lawn cemeteries> 
Terre Haute, Ind., died October 18 at 
his home at Highland cemetery. Mr. 
Bain, whose death resulted from a com- 
plication of maladies, will be sincerely 
mourned by all wno knew him. He was 
one of the best known citizens of Terre 
Haute. He was born in 1829 at Bath, 
Somersetshire, England, and in 1846 
moved to Canada. Thence he moved to 
Pittsburg. Pa., and later to Cincinnati 
where he occupied the position of assistant 
superintendent of Spring Grove cemetery. 
On June i, 1884, Mr. Jlain moved to 
Terre Haute toatcept the position of sup- 
erintendent of the cemeteries. A widow 
survives him. 
Mr. Frederick W. Chislett, superinten- 
dent of Crown Hill cemetery, Indianapo- 
lis, Ind., died at the home of his son in 
Pittsburgh, Pa., on the night of Nov. 8ih, 
after an illness of some weeks. A more 
extended notice will be given in our next 
issuo. 
The main features of the September is- 
sue of “Municipal Affairs’’ is: “City Gov- 
ernment by Tax Payers,” ard a number 
of valuable and interesting articles per- 
taining to the subject are given. 
‘•The Plant World,” a monthly journal 
of popular botany, will hereafter be pub- 
lished by the Plant World Co., Washing- 
ton, D. C. The editor in chief is Dr. F. 
H. Knowlton, U. S. National Museum, 
Washington. 
By courtesy of John Robinson, town 
clerk, Niagara Falls, Ontario, a copy of 
Lot deed and Rules and Regulations of 
Fairview cemetery, Niagara Falls, Ont. 
“ Park - Cemeteries, Garden-Church- 
yards.” A pamphlet favoring park like 
cemeteries and cremation by Mrs. Anna 
Blunden Martino, Birmingham, England. 
Mrs. Martino makes a strong plea for im- 
provement in cemeteries and churchyards 
and her efforts will undoubtedly help a 
growing sentiment. 
“A short view of ‘‘Great Questions” by 
Orlando J. Smith. New York: The Bran- 
don Company. 
Commercial Violet Culture. By 
Professor B. T. Galloway. Chief of Di- 
vision of Vegetable Physiology and Pa- 
thology, United States Department of 
Agriculture, Washington, D. C. 224 
pp. , small octavo, in flexible covers of 
royal purple cloth and gold. Publish- 
ers, A. T. De La Mare Printing and 
Publishing Co., Ltd., New York. Price 
I1.50 
In his preface to this highly instructive 
little book. Prof Galloway says: “More 
people have embarked in this business 
and failed than is the case with any other 
crop, and for this reason we believe that 
it is one of the most promising fields for 
the young, energetic, and intelligent man 
to enter. Whoever enters it, however, 
must recognize at the start that there are 
many difficulties, and that to be success- 
ful means much labor, patienceanddeter- 
mination to overcome all obstacles.” TMs 
is the sound suggestion with which the 
anthor opens a very practical treatise on 
violet culture, and on examining its pagi s 
it will be found that in the jnatter of de- 
tail nothing will perhaps be found want- 
ing to give a broad understanding of the 
necessities and methods required to suc- 
cessfully grow violets for commercial pur- 
poses. The work is fully illustrated, and 
much space is devoted to the construction 
of houses and frames, with their cost and 
latest details of arrangement. A discus- 
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.and labor fitly brings the book to a clo.=e. 
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