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The Park Board, of St. Paul, Minn., 
issues an excellently planned report il- 
lustrated with half-tones printed in 
brown, and bearing on its cover repro- 
ductions of the obverse and reverse 
sides of the medal awarded the Board 
at the Paris Exposition for artistic park 
planting and park scenery. The Board 
recommends a charter amendment to re- 
move the present limit of $75,000 for 
park expenditures and a bill which has 
been accepted by the charter commis- 
sion is to be introduced into the Legis- 
lature at the next session. The secre- 
tary’s report shows receipts for the year 
of $78,871.36 and expenditures of $75,- 
616.85. 
The Year Book of Audubon Park, 
New Orleans, La., is one of the most 
distinctive of the park publications. In 
addition to the official reports and sta- 
tistics, it contains an historical sketch 
of the park, an introductory talk for 
park lovers, a section entitled “Park 
Study,” containing quotations from 
well-known park-workers, and a table of 
statistics of the parks of the country. A 
number of views lend character to the 
report and the many half-tone illustra- 
tions are embellished by some artistic 
engraving. The preliminary plan of 
Olmsted Brothers accompanies this re- 
port and improvement work on this 
plan which has added greatly to the 
beauties of the northern section of the 
park was begun in 1900. About 13 acres 
have been developed on this plan, and a 
total of 8,449 trees and shrubs planted. 
The receipts for the year were $33,028, 
and the expenditures $13,909.07 exclu- 
sive of $19,118.93 included under special 
fund (donations), cash in bank, and 
city appropriation, 1902. 
The Eighth Annual Report of the 
Board of Trustees of the Pleasure 
Driveway and Park District, of Peoria, 
111., contains some unusually good half- 
tone views showing the progress of the 
work in this park system which has 
been previously described in Park and 
Cemetery. A table of expenditures since 
the organization of the district in 1895 
is given, showing a total of $627,930.89. 
The expenditures for the past year were 
$55,670.96. 
The Thirty-third Annual Report of 
the Park Commissioners of Buffalo, N. 
Y., contains official reports and detailed 
financial statements. The chief work of 
improvement has been done in Delaware 
Park, the site of the Pan-American Ex- 
position. The buildings, entrance gates, 
telegraph lines, fences and an immense 
amount of debris had to be removed, 
worn-out roads and walks, defaced 
slopes and destroyed plantations had to 
be restored to their normal conditions, 
with a very small outlay of money. The 
superintendent reports that the work has 
been fairly well done without creating 
any deficiency in the maintenance fund. 
The receipts for the year were $267,- 
065.34, anid the expenditures $116,456.16. 
The Tenth Annual Report of the 
Street and Park Commission of the City 
of Manchester, N. H., for 1902 : A 
financial report of street and highway 
work in that city. 
Report of the Park Commissioners of 
Canton, Ohio ; rules and regulations and 
reports of the officers. The receipts for 
the year amounted to $5,488.41 ; the ex- 
penses, $4,703.37. The work for the year 
consisted entirely of maintenance. 
Esthetic Forestry, by Frederick G. 
Todd, Landscape Architect, Montreal, 
P. Q. A neatly printed little book point- 
ing out a few general principles for de- 
veloping tracts of woodland. Mr. Todd 
also sends a preliminary report for the 
treatment of the grounds belonging to 
Trinity College. Toronto, Ont. 
Schedule of Prizes to be awarded at 
the Chrysanthemum Show of the Ameri- 
can Institute of the City of New York 
in co-operation with the Chrysanthemum 
Society of America. Herald Square Ex- 
hibition Hall, New York, Nov. 10-12, 
1903. 
Trade Literature. Etc., Received. 
The Lord & Burnham Co. send their 
latest catalogue of greenhouse heating 
and ventillating apparatus, Edition “D.” 
This catalogue contains several new 
pages, showing additional patterns 
added to their former list of cast iron 
pipe fittings for caulked joints; pipe 
chairs and hangers; new patterns for 
ventilating apparatus; “Burnham” boil- 
ers, etc. Sent on receipt of 5 cents pos- 
tage. 
Looking Forward ; a neatly printed 
and attractively illustrated advertising 
booklet of Westminster Cemetery, Phil- 
adelphia, Pa. 
The Rosedale and Linden Park Cem- 
eteries, Linden, N. J., send a number of 
well designed and illustrated specimens 
of their advertising literature. They in- 
clude mailing cards, blotters and de- 
scriptive booklets, all bearing half-tone 
illustrations of views in these ceme- 
teries. 
Prof. H. J. Wheeler, director Rhode 
Island Experiment Station, says: “I 
watched the experiments with “Dis- 
parene” closely during the summer and 
it was a very efficacious insecticide.” 
Park and Cemetery 
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LANDSCAPE GARDENING 
ESTABLISHED 1890. 
OBJECT; To advance Art out-of-Doors, with 
special reference to the Improvement of parks, 
cemeteries, home grounds, and the promotion of 
Town and Village Improvement Associations, 
etc. 
John W. Weston, C. E., Editor. 
R. J. HAIGHT, Publisher, 
324 Dearborn St,, CHICAGO. 
Eastern Office s 
1538 Am.Tract Society Bldg., New York. 
Subscription SI. 00 a Year in Advance. 
Foreign Subscription SI. 50. 
Published Monthly. 
ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN CEME- 
tery Superintendents : President, H. Wilson 
Ross, “Newton”, Newton Center, Mass; Vice- 
President, J. C. Dix, Cleveland, O.; Secretary 
and Treasurer, J. H. Morton, “City Ceme- 
teries”, Boston, Mass. 
Seventeenth Annual Convention, Rochest- 
er, N. Y., 1903. 
THE AMERICAN PARK AND OUT-DOOR 
Art Association: President, Clinton Rodgers 
Woodruff, Philadelphia; Secretary, Charles 
Mulford Robinson, Rochester, N. Y.; Treas- 
urer, O. C. Simonds, Chicago. 
Eighth Annual Meeting, St. Louis, 1904. 
Publisher's Notes. 
Editor Park and Cemetery: 
I note an unfortunate omission in my 
article on Water Works Construction 
in the last issue of your paper. 
It was my intention to devote a para- 
graph to the subject of hot-air engines 
of which the leading types are the Rider 
and Ericsson. These engines are largely 
used for small and medium pumping 
service and for such work have been 
highly satisfactory. They require almost 
no attention, are always, ready for use at 
a few minutes’ notice, are durable and 
not expensive in operation and as they 
use a less explosive fuel than the gaso- 
line engine are safer in the hands of 
careless or inexperienced persons. 
Mt. Greenwood, 111 . W. N. Rudd. 
M. Jensen, fromerly superintendent 
of Cypress Lawn Cemetery, San Fran- 
cisco, has resigned his position there to 
accept the superintendency of Mt. Oli- 
vet, at Colma, ten miles from San Fran- 
cisco. Mt. Olivet is a new cemetery of 
217 acres, about 17 of which are im- 
proved. 
A meeting of the Minnesota Horticul- 
tural Society was recently held at the 
Agricultural Experiment Station at St. 
Anthony Park. Between 300 and 400 
members were present. The society now 
has a membership of 1,370. 
The state of Indiana has purchased 
2,000 acres of land in Clark County for 
a forest reserve. The State Board of 
Forestry is to plant the tract with oak, 
walnut, ash,, hickory and other native 
hardwoods and will endeavor to dem- 
onstrate that they can be grown profit- 
ably. The tract contains 1,500 acres of 
young second growth timber and 5°° 
acres of tillable land. 
