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PARK AND CEMETERY, 
Park and Cemetery 
and Candscape Gardening. 
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 
Associations, etc. 
The regular contributors to Park .\nd 
Cemetery are among the most eminent 
Landscape Architects, Land.scape Garden- 
ers and Horticulturi.sts in the Ignited 
States, whose practical articles make the 
journal one of great value to any one 
identified with landscape work. 
John W. Weston, C. Ei., Editor. 
R. J. HAIGHT, Publisher, 
334 Dearborn St., CHICAGO. 
Eiastem Office: 
1536 Am. T ract Society Bldg., New Y ork. 
Subscription $1.00 a Year in Advance. 
Foreign Subscription $1.25 
Correspondence solicited on suijecis 
pertinejit to the columns of the journal. 
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, hone grounds, streets, etc., are solic- 
ited from our readers. 
Association of American Ceme' 
tery Superintendents. 
\VM. STONE, “Pine Grove,” 
Lynn, Mass., President. 
GEORGE M. PAINTER, “West Laurel Hill," 
Philadelphia, Vice-President. 
H WILSON ROSS, "Newton." 
Newton Centre, Ma.ss, Secretary and 
Treasurer. 
The Fourteenth Annual Convention will 
be held at Cleveland, O., September ii, 
12 and 13. 
The American Park and Out- Door 
Art Association. 
L. E. HOLDEN, Cleveland, O., President, 
W VRREN H. MANNING, Tremont Building. 
Boston. Mass. Secretary. 
O. C. SIMONDS, Chicago. Treasurer. 
The Fifth Annual Convention of the 
Association will be held at Milwaukee, 
Wis., June, 1901. 
I he American Society of Landscape 
Architects. 
JOHN CHARLES OLMSTED, Brookline, 
Mass. President. 
SAMUEL PARSONS, JR., St. James Bldg., 
New York. Vice-president. 
CH \S. N. LOWRIE, 156 Fifth ave , New 
York. Treasurer. 
DOWNING VAUX, Bible House, New 
York. Secretary. 
Personal. 
In the recent death of Mr. Joseph Mc- 
Carthy, Swan Point cemetery. Provi- 
dence, R. L, has lost a faithful friend. 
For some 25 years he had occupied the 
position of assistant superintendent, and 
performed his duties with a constancy 
and ability worthy of prominent record. 
He was born in Boston and at the time of 
his death was 41 years of age. He leaves 
a wife and four children, to whom the di- 
rectors of the cemetery gave pointed evi- 
dence of the esteem in which they had 
held the deceased. 
Mr. James Y. Craig, superintendent of 
Forest Lawn Cemetery, Omaha, Neb., 
has been appointed bv^ the maj’or a mem- 
ber of the board of park commi.ssioners of 
that city, his term to extend to May 1905. 
This is an appointment that should com- 
mend itself, and is suggestive to the offi- 
cials of other cities. 
It is sincerely to be regretted that the 
city councils of Pittsburg, Pa., has de- 
posed Mr. E. M. Bigelow, for nineteen 
years director of public work of that city, 
and under whose able direction the parks 
of Pittsburg have been so splendidly de- 
veloped. His abilitj’ and resources de- 
served better recognition than has been 
accorded him bj’ the agents of the politi- 
cal system which appears to be rampant 
in the smokj- city. 
Mr. John G. Barker, formerly superin- 
tendent of Forest Hills cemetery, Boston, 
and lately in private practice in landscape 
gardening, at South Bend, Ind., and else- 
where, has accepted an appointment in 
Philadelphia to take charge of Graceland 
cemetery, now in course of development. 
Mr. Geo. H. Hazzard, St. Paul, Minn., 
Park Commissioner for the Interstate 
Park at the Dalles of the St. Croix, is to 
be highly congratulated on his untiring 
efforts to promote the development of that 
beautiful tract. Decoration Day was 
made quite an event in the park, a flag 
raising ceremony being the feature about 
which centred an attractive interest. 
In connection with the receipt of an 
invitation to visit the Pmonies in bloom 
at the nurseries of P. S. Peterson & Son, 
Chicago, we have to thank the firm for 
the gift of a magnificent bunch of these 
flowers. For size, variety and coloring 
the bouquet was unique. 
The American Forestry Association is 
to hold its principal summer meeting in 
connection with the American Associa- 
tion for the Advancement of Service in 
Columbia University, New' AMrk City. It 
is rather expected that Hon. James Wil- 
son, secretary of Agriculture, will preside 
at certain sessions. 
At the summer meeting of the Missouri 
State Horticultural Society, held at Chil- 
licothe. Mo., June 5-8, among a number 
of papers and subjects of particular value 
to fruit growers, the following were of 
general interest: Some Valuable Shrubs, 
H. S. Wayman, Princeton, Mo.; Horti- 
culture, by Dr. J. W. Green, Chillicothe, 
Mo. ; Some F'orestry Questions, Prof. Her- 
man Van Schrenk, St. Louis, Mo.; Beau- 
tifying the Home, Mrs. Dr. Barney, Chil- 
licothe, Mo. ; Individual Trees — Their Im- 
portance, D. A. Robnett, Columbia, G. T. 
Tippin, Springfield, Mo. 
*• Books, Reports, Etc,, Receivea. 
.Annual report of AVoodlawn cemetery. 
New AMrk, for year 1899. With rules and 
regulations. 
vSixty-third annual report of the board 
of managers of the Monument cemetery 
of Philadelphia. 
From Reservoir Park, Toronto, Canada, 
a fine jihotograph of a specimen of Betula 
alba laciniata pendula. 
Woodlawn cemetery. New York, an- 
nual report to the lot owners for the year 
1S99, with rules, regulations, etc. 
City of Boston, Department of Parks. 
Tw'enty-fifth annual report of the Board 
of Commissioners for the j'ear ending 
January II, 1900. Beautifully illustrated 
with half tones. 
Descriptive illustrated pamphlet of For- 
est Hill cemetery, Scranton, Pa., with 
rules, regulations, etc. 
Historical and de.scriptive pamphlet of 
Fairview' cemetery, New .Albany, Ind. 
Copiously illustrated with half tones. 
Green River cemeterj’, Greenfield, 
Mass. Revised list of prices for annual 
and perpetual care, and an appeal to lot 
owners to cultivate and display more 
practical interest in the cemetery with the 
object of better care and improvement. 
Texas .Agricultural Flxperinient Station, 
Brazos Co., Texas. Investigation and 
Improvement of .American Grapes at the 
Munson Experiment Grounds near Deni- 
son, Te.xas. P'roin 1876 to 1S90. By T. 
V. Munson, M. S. 
Annual report of the Park Commi.ssion- 
ers of the city of Haverhill, Mass., for the 
year ending December 31, 1S99. 
The Florists’ Manu.yl. By William 
Scott. A Reference Book for Com- 
mercial Florists. 1S99. Illustrated. 
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text, which considered in relation to 
the author’s broad experience in com- 
mercial plant growing stamps the book 
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plant lovers’ library. A perusal of the 
work will instantly reveal its practical 
nature, and it is well recognized that 
the majority of florists will be bene- 
fitted by a broader knowledge of the 
plants and material in which they 
work, and Mr. Scott’s book will in its 
style and make up afford a fund of val- 
uable information. 
Modern House Plans for Everybody. 
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Most everybody takes an interest in 
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