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PARK AND CEMETERY 
Pseudophcciiix is probably a monotypic palm found 
on Long Key and Elliott’s Key, South Florida. It 
grows 20 or 25 feet high, has bunches- of red fruit 
and pinnate leaves, and has been cultivated in South 
Florida and California gardens. 
Gaussia is a monotypic Cuban palm nearly related 
to Chamsedorea. 
Geonoma is a large genus of 80 or more species, 
all tropical American, with several ascending to the 
coffee elevations. They are mostly small with rush- 
like stems and thin, often scanty foliage, indicating 
shady stations of growth. Two or three are kept in 
South Florida and Californian nurseries. 
Wallichia in 3 species are suckering carvota leaved 
palms from the Himalayas, also kept in South Flor- 
ida. 
Caryota, “the wine palms,” are in 9 species. C. 
urens is native to the South India mountains up to 
4,000 feet, and planted to the frost line for ornament. 
The Malayan, New Guinean and North Australian 
kinds have all peculiar fish-tail foliage. 
Charmer ops in 2 species by some authors are from 
Mediterranean regions. C. humilis vars. are often in 
gardens, but seldom very elegant. 
James MacPherson. 
CONVENTION OF CEMETERY SUPERINTENDENTS. 
The eighteenth annual convention of the Association 
of American Cemetery Superintendents will be held at 
Chicago August 23, 24 and 25 and will be preceded 
by the annual meeting of the Illinois Association of 
Cemeteries on the afternoon and evening of August 
22. Convention headquarters will be at the Auditorium 
Hotel, corner Michigan avenue and Congress sts. 
Rates at this hotel are as follows : European plan — 
Room without bath, one person, $2.00 per day, two 
persons $3.00. Room with bath, one person $3.50, two 
persons $4.50. Rates at Great Northern Hotel, Dear- 
born st., corner Jackson boulevard : European plan — 
Room without bath, one person $1.50 per day, two 
persons $2.50. Rooms with bath, one person $2.50, 
two persons $3.50. 
The preliminary programs already published in 
these columns will be carried out, barring a few 
changes. The program will include automobile and 
carriage drives to the principal parks and cemeteries 
and visits to the Art Institute, Chicag'O Library, Uni- 
versity and other points of interest. The reduced rates 
offered by the railroads to the World’s Fair, with stop- 
over privileges in Chicago, afford an opportunity that 
many members will take advantage of. 
A Modern Funeral Car. 
The modern funeral car is one of the conveniences 
provided by progressive cemeteries in the vicinity of 
a number of the larger cities, as well as one of the 
agencies working toward decreasing expense and dis- 
play in conducting funerals. Funeral cars of special 
design are in use in Buffalo and Cleveland ; in Chi- 
cago, Los Angeles- and Pasadena, Cal., private trolley 
cars, while not built exclusively for cemetery use, are 
easily adapted to funeral parties. 
The car shown in the illustration is 
in use at “Elmlawn,” the new rural 
cemetery of the Buffalo Burial Park 
Association at Buffalo, N. Y. It was 
built exclusively for the use of the 
cemetery from a rough design by Mr. 
Bellett Lawson, Jr., secretary and 
manager of Elmlawn, which was 
worked out by the International Rail- 
way Co., of Buffalo. 
The car seats 38 people including 
six pallbearers, who have a small room 
provided for them at the front of the 
car. The other side of the front, im- 
mediately below the long plate glass 
window which can be seen in the 
illustration, can be opened, disclosing 
a space eight feet long for the recep- 
tion of the casket. When this opening 
is closed the casket is not in view from 
either the inside or the outside and the space above 
it is arranged for carrying and displaying flowers 
when necessary. The exterior is painted an olive 
green and bears the name of the cemetery and the in- 
terior is mahogany finished. The upholstering is done 
in leather with silk velour curtains. Light is fur- 
nished by frosted electric globes when artificial light 
is necessary. The whole equipment cost about $5,500. 
FUNERAL CAR IN USE AT ELMLAWN CEMETERY. BUFFALO, N. Y. 
