Park and Cemetery 
and £and$cape eardenitig. 
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 inter- 
ests of Town and Village Improvement 
Association, etc. 
The regular contributors to Park and 
Cemetery are among the most eminent 
Dandscape Architects, Dand.scape Garden- 
ers and Ilorticultnri.sts 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; 
J 536 Am. T ract Society Bldg., New Y ork. 
Subscription $1.00 a Year in Advance. 
Foreign Subscription $1.25 
Correspondence solicited on subjects 
pertinent to the colwnns of the journal. 
Officials of Parks and Cemeteries are 
requested to setid copies of their re- 
ports . 
Photoc^raphs 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," 
Newton Centre, Mass, Secretary and 
Treasurer. 
The Imurteenth 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 A.ssociation 
will be held at Chicago, 111 . 
The American Society of Landscape 
Architects. 
JOHN CHARLES CILM.STED, Brookline, 
Mass. President. 
SAMUEL PAR.SONS, JR., St. Janies Bldg., 
New York. Vice-president. 
CHAS. N. LOWRIE, 156 Fifth ave , New 
York. Treasurer. 
DOWNING VAUX, Bible House, New 
York. Secretary. 
Colonel G. B. Brackett once a verj- 
prominent citizen of Dee County, la., ha.s 
been given entire charge of the whole 
horticultural exhibit of the United States 
at the Paris Expo.sition. 
The trustees of Pine Grove Cemetery, 
Manche.ster, N. II., have elected Mr. John 
II. Erskine to succeed Mr. Byron k. 
Stearns as superintendent. Mr. Stearns 
PARK AND CEMETERY. 
resigned the position after twenty years 
of service. Mr. Erskine has been assis- 
tant superintendent for the last eight 
years. 
Ellwanger & Barry, of Rochester, N. 
Y., were recently awarded a contract for 
furnishing a large order of nursery stock 
for a gentleman’s place on the Hud.son. 
Over 30,000 trees, shrubs and plants are 
contained in the order. This firm has also 
received large orders from the Pan-.\mer- 
ican Expo.sition Companj-at Buffalo, and, 
so far, have shipped there ten car-loads of 
.rees, shrubs, etc. 
Cyclopedia of American Horticulture, 
comprising suggestions for cultivation 
of Horticultural plants. Descriptions 
of the species of fruits, vegetables, flow- 
ers and ornamental plants sold in the 
United States and Canada, together 
with geographical and biographical 
sketches. By L. II. Bailey, Prof, of 
Horticulture in Cornell I^niversity. .\s- 
.sisted by Wilhelm Miller, and many 
expert cultivators and botanists. Il- 
lustrated with over two thoiusand ori- 
ginal engravings. In four volumes. 
Vol. I, A-D., New York; the MacMillan 
Company, 66 Fifth avenue. Price 
$5.00. 
As a whole the first volume of this work 
is a credit to the editor, and a .source of 
congratulation to the public. Territor- 
iallv and geographical!}', America pre- 
sents conditions more varied than any 
other country in the universe. Each lo- 
cality has characteristic flora, and the 
united whole is distinguishably .Vmerican. 
The cyclopedia is a review of the status 
of horticulture in all .America, and of all 
.\mericans from Ala.ska to Florida, and 
from Maine to California. It would be 
difficult, if indeed it were po.s.sible, to ex- 
haustively treat .\merican horticulture in 
this work, but the general ideas can and 
are detailed in an encyclopedic man- 
ner. 
Much of the text is not, nor cannot be 
new, as referring to ideas or descriptions, 
but the latest information is embodied in 
a new arrangement of the general lines 
upon which it has been elaborated. The 
method adopted is novel and refreshing, 
and yet, in general, terse, lucid and com- 
prehensive. Topics are treated alphabeti- 
cally. The genera of plants are disposed 
in alphabetic order, but the species in 
botanical sequence. Unfortutiately, the 
botany follows no single one of the re- 
cently formed cod^s of rules governing 
nomenclature. 
Numerous writers contribute more or 
less valuable articles. True, horticulture 
is inseparable from botany, indeed botany 
is the .science upon which it is founded, 
and this volume pays a tribute of recogni- 
tion to the fact. .Vmongthe contributors 
are botanists, horticulturists, landscape 
architects, experimenters and men espec- 
ially fitted to write authoritatively upon 
the topics discu.s.sed. An encyclopedia 
is a census, an inventory, a statement of 
facts that enables one to view the happen- 
ings of the past, to be critically reviewed 
with a view to direct the methods and 
knowledge of the future in the channels 
and by means that trend toward material 
progress. In this .sense this work credit- 
ablv fulfills the position it assumes. 
Though there are notable exceptions, 
the contributions are valuable as giving 
an intelligent review of practice by spec- 
5 > 
ialists of long experience in matters of 
vital horticultural import. A noteworthy 
feature is the treatment of the status and 
possibilities of horticulture in each state, 
and such as those of Arizona and Califor- 
nia are at once concise expositions of the 
salient factors in the evolution, practice, 
the possibilities and probabilities of the 
science, and display an intimate and ac- 
curate knowledge of the states, their rela- 
tive horticultural po.sition with foreign 
countries, and their natural and most val- 
uable resources. 
In the cultivation of plants, e.specially 
hardy and tender ornamental trees and 
shrubs the treatment is good. 
All plants in American commerce and 
a few others likely to be .soon included 
are given. In discu.s.sing the hardiness of 
trees and shrubs, we could wdsh that 
“north” and “.south” were better defined 
in more exact delimitations. In hardy 
trees and shrubs Prof. vSargent describes 
the Firs ( Abies ) with his usual mastery 
of the subject. ]Mo.st of the others are 
written by Mr. Alfred Rehder in a praise- 
worthy, full and accurate manner, ami as 
a single contributor his writings are origi- 
nal and exceptionally trustwoVtliy as evi- 
denced in the several species of Actinidia 
usually referred, but erroneously so, to 
Planchon as authority, wdiereas here the 
correct authority Miquel is cited. 
We cannot always agree with the edi- 
tors writings, as for instance, Canna flac- 
cida described as “sturdy.” This is our 
common southern .species and its specific 
name aptly describes its habit in contra- 
distinction to that attributed to it by the 
editor. 
In recording local pursuits, it frequently 
gives intere.sting data. 
The illu.strations are numerous; the 
selection of matter to lie illustrated is 
good, but most of the illu.strations do not 
repre.sent technical features as often or as 
well as could be wi.shed. 
The work is di.stinctively and decidedlv 
American, no precedent has been fol- 
lowed;' it is clearly on a plan 'different 
from that of Miller, Johnson or Nicholson, 
though not always advantageous! v so; it 
is an American work, admirably ailapted 
to American use. With the numerous 
contributions from various sources, the 
volume cannot be pronounced authorita- 
tive throughout; beside the di.screpancies 
always apt to occur in such a vast a.ssem- 
blage of technical descriptions, and from 
which a first edition, and therefore this 
volumes is not nor cannot be expected to 
be free, there are a number of authors 
who do not display any special nor dis- 
di.stinctly meritorious qualifications to 
treat the topic they elaborate. However, 
such orders as the Dichodacese Filici, ami 
Aceracete are of exceptional merit. As a 
whole the work can be commended, and 
should be on the reference sh If of every 
gardener and horticulturi.st. 
Books, Reports, Etc,, Receivea. 
From Wild-wood Cemetery Co., Wil- 
liamsport, Pa., illustrations of new office, 
chapel and receiving vault and views in 
cemetery. The special features of Wild- 
wood will be illustrated at an early 
date. 
Annual report, T'orest Hills cemetery, 
Boston, IMass. 1900. The report is finely 
illustrated with half tones showing par- 
ticularly beautiful planting effects. 
