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PARK AND CEMETERY 
The Transactions of the Massachu- 
setts Horticultural Society for the year 
1903 contain some valuable committee 
reports of the work of that organization. 
Of especial interest are the reports of 
the committees on School Gardens and 
Children’s Herbariums, and on Forestry 
and Roadside Improvement. In the 
former report a number of illustrations 
are given showing the various stages of 
the gardening work at the George Put- 
nam school gardens and at the Cabbot 
Gardens at Lynn. The director of the 
children's gardens at Groton, Mass., re- 
ported 25 workers in a garden 300x60 
feet, and twelve additional pupils at West 
Groton. These gardens are under the 
direction of the Village Improvement 
Society and cost just $60 for the season. 
The principal work carried on by the 
Committee on Forestry was the gather- 
ing and arranging for reference all pos- 
sible information concerning the distri- 
bution. treatment and condition of the 
roadside trees of Massachusetts with a 
view to publishing a report of these con- 
ditions with recommendations to the tree 
wardens and others having the care of 
the roadside trees. The collecting, 
tabulating and mapping of the facts have 
been completed. The arrangement of 
much of this information was set forth 
in the last report of this committee. 
Since then the records of distribution 
have been completed, a series of tables 
giving at a glance the record of any of 
the 81 species of trees in the 353 towns 
from which reports have been received. 
James Sturgis Pray is chairman of this 
committee and William P. Rich secre- 
tary of the society. 
W. E. Cutshaw, city engineer of Rich- 
mond, Va., has prepared a complete list 
of the trees of that city both in the 
streets and parks, and published it in 
pamphlet form as a guide to the student 
of trees. It gives the names of the trees 
both common and botanical, the approxi- 
mate number, the location and how 
planted. There are now about 50.000 
trees in Reservoir Park alone, so that 
something of the scope of the work and 
the care involved in its preparation may 
be seen. There were about 3,291 trees 
from the nurseries planted in the streets 
and parks of Richmond during the past 
year, making a total of 31,139 that have 
been transplanted from the nurseries. 
A Landscape Gardner’s Practical Sug- 
gestions for the care of Private Grounds 
at Riverside, 111 . ; an address delivered 
for the Outdoor Art Association at 
Riverside, 111 ., by Jens Jensen, landscape 
architect, Chicago. 
The Municipal Art Society of New 
York has issued in pamphlet form Bul- 
letins Nos. 12 and 13. No. 13 is a dis- 
cussion of Manhattan Bridge Plans with 
general reference to municipal procedure 
in planning public works. No. 12 is the 
report of the committee on Flowers, 
Vines and Area Planting. This com- 
mittee has just completed its first year 
of work which was devoted chiefly to in- 
vestigating the field and outlining plans, 
they found the field practically barren 
and decided to begin operations with the 
public schools and charitable institutions, 
who have had no funds for such work. 
A small “charity fund” was established 
for the latter institutions, and the Board 
of Education was urged to plant vines 
about school buildings. It was decided 
that the best method of inducing indi- 
viduals to decorate their residences or 
apartments is to enlist the aid of the 
architects. The planting of trees on the 
streets is declared to be distinctly the 
duty of the city, and the establishment 
of city nurseries for the park department 
is urgently recommended. 
The Bureau of Forestry has issued the 
following three bulletins, which will be 
of interest to students of forestry : Bul- 
letin No. 47, 1 he Forest Resources of 
1 exas, by William L. Bray ; Bulletin No. 
48, 1 he Forests of the Hawaiian Islands, 
by William L. Hall; and No. 49. The 
Timber of the Edwards Plateau of 
Texas, by William L. Bray. The Bureau 
also sends circulars Nos. 21, 22, 23 and 
29, entitled respectively : Practical as- 
sistance to farmers, lumbermen and 
others in handling forest lands; prac- 
tical assistance to tree planters, telling 
of the assistance given to commercial 
tree planters ; suggestions to prospective 
forest students ; exhibit of tree planting 
on a model prairie farm at the Louisiana 
Purchase Exposition — the forest plant- 
ing exhibit of the Bureau. 
Bulletin 105 of the Maine Agricul- 
tural Experiment Station, Orono. Me., is 
the second of the Bulletins on the In- 
spection of Fertilizers for 1904. The 
bulletin issued in March contained the 
analyses of the samples received from 
the manufacturers. The present bulle- 
tin contains the analyses of the samples 
collected in the open market by the in- 
spector. 
Parks for Small Cities and Villages, 
by Frank H. Nutter, of Minneapolis; re- 
printed in booklet form from the 1903 
proceedings of the Iowa Park and For- 
estry Association. 
The Handicraft Schools of Hartford, 
Conn. ; list of courses to be given in the 
school of horticulture, fall of 1904. 
Graceland Cemetery, Chicago, has is- 
sued a beautiful souvenir portfolio of 
24 photogravure views showing scenes 
in that cemetery. 1 he book contains no 
text and is handsomely bound in rustic 
style. The illustrations are of the finest 
quality, well selected to show the mag- 
nificent trees and lawns of Graceland. 
It was presented to the cemetery superin- 
tendents who registered at Graceland on 
their visit there during the recent con- 
vention. 
Forest Hill Cemetery, Kansas City, 
Mo., sends a handsomely illustrated and 
artistically printed descriptive booklet of 
that cemetery. It contains excellent 
half-tone views and well prepared de- 
scriptive matter. 
The Historic Walkill and Hudson 
River Valleys, descriptive book of their 
people and institutions; contains an illus- 
tration of the Walkill Valley Cemetery. 
I he Walkill Valley Publishing Associa- 
tion, Walden, N. Y. 
Mount Hope Cemetery, Rochester, N. 
Y., issues a beautifully illustrated de- 
scriptive book, giving a brief history of 
the cemetery, a list of the commission- 
ers since 1866, a list of superintendents 
since 1838, city laws relating to the 
cemetery, and rules and regulations. 
Camden, N. J. : An illustrated book 
of folio size, published under the au- 
spices of the Board of Trade and pre- 
sented with the compliments of the Lo- 
cust Wood Cemetery Co. Gives story 
of the city’s rise and growth, commer- 
cial advantages, etc. A page is given 
up to several illustrations of Locust 
Wood Cemetery and also to Harleigh 
Cemetery. 
OBITUARY. 
Mrs. Mary B. Coulston, of San Diego, 
Cal., formerly editor of Garden and For- 
est, and one of the most active and use- 
ful workers and writers on horticulture 
on the Pacific Coast, died suddenly July 
17, after an illness of 36 hours. She was 
in attendance at the summer school of 
the University of California at Berkeley, 
and was in good health and spirits two 
days before her death. Mrs. Coulston 
was secretary of the Park Improvement 
Committee of the Chamber of Commerce 
at San Diego, and had been for years 
one of the leaders in park and outdoor 
improvement work in California. She 
was born in Pennsylvania and was best 
known to horticulturists throughout the 
country by her writings in Garden and 
Forest, with which she was associated 
for ten years, first as correspondent and 
finally as editor-in-chief. When that 
publication suspended four years ago, 
Mrs. Coulston went to Cornell Lhiivers- 
