Park and Cemetery 
and Landscape Gardening. 
ESTABLISHED 1890, 
An Illustrated Monthly Journal. 
Devoted to the advancement of Art-ont 
of Doors, with special reference to the 
improvement of parks, cemeteries, home 
grounds and the promotion of the inter- 
ests of Town and Village Improvement 
Association, etc. 
The regular contrihntors to Park and 
Cicmktkrv are among the most eminent 
Landscape Architects, Landscape (harden- 
ers 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 $1.00 a Year in Advance. 
Foreign Subscription $1.25. 
Co7'rcspondence solicited on subjects 
pertinent to the columns of the jo7ir)uiL 
Officials of Parks and Cemeteries are- 
requested to send copies of their re- 
ports . 
Photographs and descriptive sketches 
of 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," 
Nevvtonville, Mass, Secretary and Treasurer. 
The F'ourteenth 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. SIMCDNDS. Chicago. Treasurer. 
The next meeting of the Association 
will be held at Chicago, 111 . 
The American Society of Landscape 
Architects. 
JOHN CHARLES OLMSTED, Brookline. 
Mass. President. 
SAMUEL PARSONS, JR., St. James Bldg.. 
New York. Vice-president- 
CHAS. N. LOWRIE, 156 Fifth ave.. New 
York. Treasurer. 
DOWNING VAUX, Bible House, New 
York. Secretary. 
At the recent meeting of the Columbus 
Horticultural Society, Columbus, O., the 
principal paper was read by Prof. Herbert 
Osborne on the “Distribution and Con- 
trol of Insects.” In horticulture this has 
come to be as important a question as any 
other. 
IMr. Philip Pease has been appointed b}- 
the Cemetery Board of Terre Haute, Ind., 
PARK AND CEMETERY. 
to the po.sition of superiniendent of cem- 
eteries to succeed Mr. James Bain who 
died in October last. 
We have received from Mr. Wilfred A. 
Brotherton, Rochester, Mich., cuttings 
from a newly described species of .spruce, 
Picea brevifolia, which he believes will 
he prized by admirers of evergreen trees. 
Guy J. Chaffee, son of the late B. P'. 
Chaffee, has been appointed superinten- 
dent of Oakwood Cemeterv, Svracn.se, N. 
Y., to succeed his father, whose lamented 
death was recorded in these columns. 
In response to a recent suggestion in 
the correspondence column Mr. B. H. 
Dorman, superintendent, Mountain Grove 
Cenieter}', Bridgeport, (jonn., informs us 
that there has been erected in that ceme- 
tery a new Receiving Vault, 20 ft. by 16 
ft., with provision for 17 bodies. The 
interior is of polished Tennessee marble. 
Cost about 13,000. A new front fence of 
steel, has also been erected by the Van 
Dorn Iron Co., of Cleveland. The .sub- 
structure of the Dr. Warner mansolenm 
has been completed, and it is expected 
that the building itself will he finished in 
a few weeks. 
St. Agnes Cemetery, Albany, N. Y., 
has quite recently acquired an addition of 
some 75 acres to its already extensive 
grounds. The property was known as 
the Hart estate and adjoined the cemetery 
on the south. It was conveyed to the 
cemetery corporation for $60,000, but had 
cost the late W. H. Hart some $400,000, 
which covered fine improvements. -These 
included a family mansion, stables, barns 
and outbuildings, which will be utilized 
by the cemeterv. It is already propo.sed 
to make a chapel of the mansion for 
regular services. The additional grounds 
will afford the superintendent fine oppor- 
tunities for landscape work and refined 
improvement. 
In opening the bids for nursery stock 
required by the different parks of Pitts- 
burgh, it was found that Thomas Meehan 
& Sons, the nurserymen and landscape 
engineers of Germantown, Philadelphia, 
Pa., were the lowest of all bidders. This 
firm was awarded the contracts for every 
section, amounting in all to nearly ten 
thousand hard}’ trees, shrubs, vines and 
evergreens. 
At a meeting of the New England fio- 
ciety. Orange, N. J., held March 3rd, 
resolutions were unanimously passed en- 
dorsing the measures now before the leg- 
islatures of New York and New Jerse}' 
looking to the preservation of the Palis- 
ades, and providing for the appointment 
of commi.ssioners to act jointly in the in- 
terest of both states in acquiring the nec- 
essary land for a suitable reservation, and 
advocating the early enactment of legis- 
lation on the lines indicated. 
Eldward Failing, of Corbett, P'ailing & 
Robertson, Portland, Oregon, for 18 years 
clerk of Riverview Cemetery’ Association, 
Portland, died at his residence on Feb. 
28th, deeply mourned by his associates. 
Mr. Failing was born in New York City, 
December 18, 1840, hut was a pioneer in 
O’egon, reaching that state with other 
members of the family’ in the early ’so's. 
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At a meeting of the Board of Cemetery’ 
Trustees, Portsmouth, O., in February, 
resolutions of respect and regard were 
pa.s.sed upon the death of Captain James 
P. Jack, who had been elected secretary’ 
of the hoard annually for the jra.st 25 
years. 
Books, Reports, Etc., Received. 
Fourth Annual Report of the City of 
Barre, Vt., for the year ending January’ i, 
1900. With map of Hope cemeterv. 
Maine Agricultural Experiment Station 
Bulletin No. 56. Apple Insects of 
Maine. Bulletin No. 59. p-eeding Stuff 
Inspection. Bulletin No. 60. Fertilizer 
Inspection. 
“A P'nture Need and a Present Duty’.” 
A handsomely gotten up, illustrated bro- 
chure of Cedar Lawn cemeterv, Paterson, 
N. J. 
Fifth Annual Report of the Board of 
Cemetery Commissioners of New Bed- 
ford, Mass., for y’ear ending December 4, 
1S99. A handsome, descriptive pamphlet, 
beautifully illustrated with half tones, and 
with rules and regulations of cemeteries. 
Seventeenth Annual Report of Board 
of Park Commi.ssioners City of IMinne- 
apolis, Minn., 1899. Replete with in- 
formation regarding park affair.s, and 
copiously’ illustrated. 
Department of Agriculture, Washing- 
ton, D. C. Rejwrt of the Secretary of 
.\griculture, 1899. 
City’ of Cambridge, Mass., Annual Re- 
port of the Board of Cemetery Commis- 
sioners for y’ear ending Nov. 30, 1899. 
Illustrated. 
A few observations on Landscape Gar- 
dening. By Edward L. Raymond, 410 
Boy’lston street, Boston, Mass. 
Seventeenth Annual Report of the 
Board of Park Commissioners of the City 
of Cleveland, O., 1899. Illustrated with 
many' half tone plates. 
Rules and Regulations Mount Hope 
Cemetery’, Toronto, Canada. 
Cedar Hill Cemetery A.ssociation, New 
burgh, N. Y. Illustrated, descriptive 
pamphlet, containing by-laws, rules, 
regulations, etc. 
Tenth Annual Report of the Cemeterv 
Commis.sioners. being the 49th annual 
report of Wildwood Cemetery', Winches- 
ter, Mass., for year 1899. With map of 
the cemetery'. 
Trade Catalogues, Etc. 
The Wm. H. Moon Company’, Morris- 
ville. Pa. Illustrated catalogue for 1900, 
of trees, shrubs, fruits, etc. 
Elm City Nursery' Co., New Haven, 
Conn. Illustrated price list of specialties 
for 1900. 
Ellwanger & Barry, Mount Hope Nur- 
series, Rochester, N. Y. General cata- 
logue of fruit and ornamental trees, 
.shrubs, hardy border plants, etc. 
Pamphlets issued by the National Bur- 
ial Device Co., Coldwater, Mich., illus- 
trates their Casket Lowering Apparatus, 
and gives a number of cemeteries in 
which the device is u.sed. The company' 
have received a large number of testimon- 
ials from prominent cemeterv officials 
speaking in high terms of the apparrtrs. 
