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How to Make School Gardens ; a 
manual for teachers and pupils ; by H. 
D. Hemenway, B. S., Director of the 
Hartford School of Horticulture; Doub- 
leday, Page & Co., New York, 1903: • 
The rapid growth of the school gar- 
den movement, and the paucity of liter- 
ature on the subject will make this book 
of great value to students and workers 
in the field. It has grown out of Mr. 
Hemenway's wide experience as Direc- 
tor of the Hartford School of Horticul- 
ture, where his successful work has had 
a widespread influence in furthering the 
movement. The trend and scope of the 
work were suggested by inquiries re- 
ceived from all over the country con- 
cerning the best methods of making and 
conducting a garden. The first chapters 
explain something of the development 
of the school garden movement and how 
to make a school-garden, and the re- 
maining chapters are detailed lessons in 
garden work. The directions are simple 
and practical, and are illustrated with 
drawings, diagrams, and half-tones. The 
chapters treat of the following : How 
to make a school-garden ; How to pre- 
pare and fertilize the land; Lessons in 
garden work ; Lessons in greenhouse 
work — planting seed, potting, shifting 
and taking cuttings ; Root grafting ; bud 
ding ; School garden bibliography. 
Report of the Michigan Forestry Com- 
mission for the year 1902 : 
The Michigan forest reserve includes 
about 60,000 acres of scattered lands in 
Roscommon and Crawford counties. 
The Commission was organized in 1899 
with very limited powers, its chief du- 
ties being to disseminate information and 
agitate the importance of forestry in 
Michigan to pave the way for later ac- 
tion. Upon invitation of the Michigan 
Commission, a meeting of the National 
Forestry Association was held in Lans- 
ing during the past summer at which 
addresses were delivered by scientists 
and foresters of national reputation. The 
suggestions given by these men will be 
formulated into bills and presented to 
the Legislature. The legislation desired 
is summarized as follows: To enlarge 
the powers of the commission by giving 
it authority to dispose of timber, to ac- 
quire lands, and to organize a system of 
protection against forest fires. The 
Legislature will be asked to grant the 
commission an annual appropriation of 
not more than $7,500, and a bill will also 
be introduced exempting a certain per 
cent of arable land from taxation pro- 
viding it be devoted solely to the grow- 
ing of forest trees. Other measures to 
be urged are the perfecting of titles to 
the lands that are or may be under the 
control of the commission, and the pro- 
tection of the headwaters of streams in 
the state. The report is profusely il- 
lustrated with photographs, and con- 
tains a number of valuable papers on 
forestry subjects, among which are the 
following: Farm Forestry, by Geo. B. 
Horton ; The Carolina Poplar, by L. B. 
Rice; Testimony of Plants of the Forest 
Reserve Region, by Chas. A. Davis ; The 
Jack Pine Plains of Michigan, by Fili- 
bert Roth; Some Disclosures Concerning 
Natural Forest Seeding; Management of 
Michigan Hardwood Forests, by W. C. 
Winchester; Illustrations of Tree 
Growth, by the President of the Com- 
mission. 
Nation-Wide Civic Betterment, a re- 
port of the third annual convention of 
the American League for Civic Im- 
provement : 
All of the papers presented at the 
last convention of the League, and the 
story of the convention are included in 
the report. Accompanying it is the ad- 
vance program of the Civic Institute to 
be conducted by the League in co-opera- 
tion with the Chautauqua Institution at 
Chautauqua, N. Y., July 13 to 18, 1903. 
At this conference, students and work- 
ers in the field of civic improvement will 
be offered a program of lectures and 
conferences, under the guidance of some 
of the chief leaders in civic improve- 
ment, which will give for the first time 
a complete survey of the principles, 
achievements and hopes of this great 
movement. A series of conferences, 
conducted by eminent specialists, will 
cover the immediate practical problems 
of civic improvement — rural, urban and 
national. Governor R. B. LaFollette, 
of Wisconsin, will speak on “Represen- 
tative Government.” Evening illustrat- 
ed lectures on some of the most sig- 
nificant phases of civic betterment will 
furnish both entertainment and instruc- 
tion. On Friday evening at the annual 
banquet, at the Hotel Atheneum, the 
presidential address will be delivered. 
On Saturday the business sessions of the 
convention will be held, the Institute 
closing Saturday night with Mr. Albert 
Kelsey’s prophetic treatment of “The 
Model City,” as exemplified by the pro- 
posed exhibit at the Louisiana Purchase 
Exposition and the plans for making 
the future Chautauqua a model commun- 
ity. Accompanying the report is a re- 
print of President Charles Zueblin’s ad- 
dress, “A Decade of Civic Improve- 
ment,” which is for sale at 10 cents a 
copy by. the Secretary, 5711 Kimbark 
Avenue, Chicago. 
Report of the Board of Park Com- 
missioners of Wilmington, Del., for 
1902 : The total park area of Wilming- 
ton embraces 289.71 acres, including : 
North Brandywine Park, 100.6 acres; 
South Brandywine, 73.22 acres ; Kent- 
more Parkway and Rockford Grove, 
14.83 acres; Rockford Park, 71.37 acres, 
and 29.95 acres of small parks. The 
population of Wilmington according to 
the last census is 76,500, which gives an 
average of one acre of park land to 264 
inhabitants, or one acre of parks to each 
22 acres of city area. Among the im- 
provements recorded during the year was 
the building of a new concrete pavilion 
in North Brandywine Park, and the re- 
construction of the Clayton street bridge. 
Plans have been prepared by Secretary 
and Engineer Theodore A. Leisen for 
a new dam across the Brandywine near 
the old Barley Mill, which is one of the 
improvements planned for this year. 
The total receipts for the year amount- 
ed to $43,554.40, and the expenditures to 
$33,111.21, leaving a balance of $10,- 
443.19. The report has an artistic cover 
design embodying the figure of the god 
Pan, and is illustrated with some hand- 
somely engraved half-tone views of park 
scenery. 
Eighth Annual Report of the Board of 
Cemetery Commissioners of New Bed- 
ford, Mass., for 1902: The cemetery, 
department of the city of New Bedford 
now has four cemeteries under its con- 
trol — Oak Grove, embracing 37 acres ; 
Rural Cemetery, 85 acres ; Pine Grove, 
10 acres, and Griffin street cemetery. 
The main avenue in Rural Cemetery has 
been rebuilt and laid with asphalt, and 
three new sections have been laid out 
on the lawn plan. The perpetual care 
fund amounts to $66,731.15, an increase 
