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PARK AND CEMETERY 
Secretary and Treasurer James H. Morton presented 
his annual report, which showed the receipts of the 
past vear to have been $469.42 and the disbursements 
$422.96. Nineteen new members were enrolled during 
the year and eighteen joined at this meeting, making 
the enrollment at the present time 204. 
The first of the series of enjoyable outings arranged 
by the local committee was a drive to the extensive 
nurseries of Ellwanger & Barry, Mt. Hope cemetery 
and Genesee Valley Park. The well-known Mount 
Hope nurseries cover an area of six hundred acres, in 
which the visitors found much that was interesting 
and instructive. These nurseries were established more 
superintendent of parks at Rochester, read an interest- 
ing paper on “The Cultivation of Ornamental, Hardy, 
Coniferous and Other Evergreens.” This paper will be 
printed in full in a later issue, but it will be of interest 
to note at this time that Mr. Dunbar said that while he 
had planted evergreen .at all seasons of the year with 
more or less success, and August and September were 
desirable provided the ground was well saturated with 
rains, he had had the best results from spring planting, 
just about the time when the buds begin to swell. He 
commended the coniferous evergreens because of their 
cheerfulness during the dull winter months and the gen- 
eral desirability at all seasons. 
Photo by Rochester Photographic Co. 
CEMETERY SUPERINTENDENTS IN HIGHLAND PARK, ROCHESTER, N. Y. 
than sixty-three years ago and one of the memorable 
features of the visit were the reminiscences of the ven- 
erable Mr. Ellwanger, who pointed out trees, now 
grown to magnificent specimens, that he planted when a 
young man. Mount Hope cemetery near by has been 
Rochester’s leading cemetery for sixty-five years. The 
grounds comprise 210 acres of naturally beautiful land 
of hills and dales. Many fine trees abound and impos- 
ing monuments are to be seen that mark the resting 
places of men of national reputation. 
The return drive gave the visitors an opportunity of 
seeing the beauties of Genesee Valley Park and other 
views around the city. 
At the evening session Mr. John Dunbar, assistant 
“A Few Thoughts” was the subject of a paper writ- 
ten by Mr. R. F. Robertson of Los Gatos, Cal., and 
read bv Secretary Morton. Mr. Robertson is a lawyer 
and has taken an active interest in the affairs of the 
Los Gatos cemetery for years and knows something 
of the diffidence which the general public usually shows 
toward cemeteries. How to enlist public interest in 
such affairs is a work of great importance. Every 
cemetery, he thought, should aim to set a high stand- 
ard, one in advance of the community. He considers 
newspapers, especially in the smaller places, valuable 
aids in keeping the progress of the cemetery before 
the people. Public interest must be enlisted and the 
superintendent’s efforts aided and reciprocated by 
