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The Tree Planting Association of New 
York City, 1901-1902: 
Among the agencies working for the 
beautifying of Greater New York, none 
is more actively or practically pursuing 
its ends than the Tree Planting Society. 
The report for the past year contains an 
introductory letter of commendation 
from Gifford Pinchot, the government, 
forester, and tells of much successful 
work accomplished and under way. The 
Tenement District Shade Tree Commit- 
tee has recently been organized by the 
association, with the purpose of re- 
deeming, in a measure, the dreariness 
of the more densely populated districts 
of the city by securing the planting and 
care of shade trees in the streets of those 
sections. The committee intends to be- 
gin its work by planting, during this 
spring, so far as it is desired and its 
funds will permit, a tree in front of 
every social settlement, day nursery, 
guild, newsboys’ home, church, chapel, 
orphanage, and other institution where 
children are gathered together in the 
tenement regions of the city. The asso- 
ciation has expended $1,512, and 2,176 
trees have been planted under its aus- 
pices during the year. A valuable part 
of the report is the section entitled “In- 
formation as to Planting Trees,” which 
gives many useful suggestions for select- 
ing, planting, and caring for trees in city 
streets. This inforamtion is also re- 
printed in another circular with the 
addition of a general list of trees for 
avenue, street and roadside planting. 
Three other circulars accompany the re- 
port, two of them contrasting views of 
treeless and well-planted streets, and the 
other containing a discussion of the 
New York tree-planting law by Dr. 
Stephen Smith, its author. 
Report of the Director of the School 
of Horticulture, Plartford, Conn. : 
During the past year the school gar- 
dens of the Handicraft Schools of Hart- 
ford have given instruction to about 900 
persons, and at the close of the season 
an interesting exhibit of work was 
given. The work is divided into nine 
courses, as follows: Apprentice course; 
Watkinson farm school boys ; school 
garden work with boys from the public 
schools; garden work with the vacation 
school children; nature work with the 
vacation schools, consisting of trips to 
the parks, etc. ; botany and nature study 
at the Watkinson farm school, evenings; 
military drill at the Watkinson farm 
school ; nature work with the public 
school teachers, in three courses ; and 
special students. The work with the 
children of the public schools has been 
previously described by Director Hem- 
enway in Park and Cemetery and 
Landscape Gardening, and he hopes by 
another year to have school gardens for 
teachers. Many teachers have signified 
their intention of joining such a course, 
and the subject of school gardens is re- 
ceiving attention all over the United 
States. As chairman of the School 
Garden Session of the American Park 
and Outdoor Art Association at Boston, 
Mr. Hemenway made appointments in 
every state and territory of the Union 
to arrange for discussion of the subject 
in teachers’ meetings. 
Cremation ; issued by the Odd Fel- 
lows’ Cemetery Association, San Fran- 
cisco, Cal. : The growing popularity of 
cremation in California is shown by this 
report which records 906 incinerations 
in the Odd Fellows’ crematory between 
1895 and 1899. The book is profusely 
illustrated with views of the handsome 
columbarium, and contains valuable in- 
formation and statistics about crema- 
tion throughout the world. Arguments 
pro and con are given, as well as a sym- 
posium of opinions of famous people, 
and detailed descriptions of the crema- 
tory, its rules, forms, etc. 
The Fairmount Park Art Association, 
Philadelphia; 31st annual report: An 
address by Albert Kelsey on “Parkways 
and Monumental Thoroughfares,” de- 
livered at the thirty-first annual meeting 
of the association, is published in the 
report. The paper deals, with the plan 
recently adopted by the City Council 
for cutting a boulevard through the heart 
of the city from the City Hall to Fair- 
mount Park. It is illustrated with plans 
of the proposed boulevard and views 
of famous thoroughfares of Paris and 
Berlin. The association has contributed 
thirty-nine works of art, chiefly bronze 
statues, to Fairmount Park and has the 
following groups now in course of erec- 
tion or casting : Colossal equestrian 
group, “The Amazon,” by Kiss; “The 
Medicine Man,” by Cyrus E. Dallin; 
The Smith Memorial, embodying fifteen 
works of well-known sculptors. The 
affairs of the association as shown in 
the treasurer’s report are in excellent 
condition. The investments amount to 
$87,050 and the cash in bank, credited to 
the various funds, amounts to $24,377.13. 
Leslie W. Miller, 320 South Broad St., 
Philadelphia, is Secretary. 
First Annual Report of the Civic Im- 
provement League of St. Louis : The 
Civic Improvement League of St. Louis 
is designed to unite the efforts of all 
citizens who want to make St. Louis a 
better place to live in. Its general pur- 
poses are to create a public sentiment in 
favor of better administration of munic- 
ipal affairs, without in any way invad- 
ing the domain of politics. The work 
of the league has been discussed from 
time to time in these columns, and those 
who wish detailed statements of its 
work, aims, purposes, list of officers and 
committees, and suggestions for similar 
work should have this report and the 
Manual of the Junior Civic League, en- 
titled Keep Our City Clean ; how the 
children of St. Louis may assist in mak- 
ing it a clean, healthy and beautiful 
city. Earle Layman, Secretary, 605 
Colonial Trust Bldg., St. Louis. 
Woodlawn: A beautifully illustrated 
descriptive book of Woodlawn Ceme- 
tery, New York City. Bound in flexible 
rustic leather backs, and illustrated with 
finely engraved half-tones ornamented 
with art work. Contains all official in- 
formation concerning the cemetery, its 
officers, forms, rules, etc. 
Kensico Cemetery, New York, also 
issues an artistically printed and hand- 
somely illustrated annual, being the re- 
port to the lot owners for the year 1902, 
with rules and regulations ; reviewed in 
Cemetery Notes. 
Charter and By-Laws of the Ceme- 
tery of Spring Grove, Cincinnati, O., 
with the revised rules and regulations; 
56 pages, bound in cloth. 
Rules and Regulations of Forest 
Home Cemetery and Crematory, Mil- 
waukee, Wis., 1903; a neatly printed 
book of 23 pages ; rules considered in 
our last issue. 
Views and Regulations of Harleigh 
Cemetery, Camden, N. J. : An illus- 
trated catalogue of this attractive ceme- 
tery, giving a minute description of the 
grounds, including the names of the dif- 
ferent lawns and a map. Illustrated 
with fine half-tones. Also a photograph 
of a view in Harleigh. 
