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PARK AND CEMETERY 
Roses, Past, Present and Future, by 
the late Dean Hale. — G., Sept. 3. 
Street Trees and Gas; illustrated. — 
A. G., Sept. 24. 
Hyacinths and Tulips for Pot Culture. 
— A. G., Sept. 24. 
Planting Bulbs for Spring Flowering, 
by L. Barron ; illustrated. — A. G., Sept. 
24. 
The Canker Worm, by E. S. S. — A. 
G., Sept. 1 7. 
Bulbs for Spring Effects, by R. H. 
Warder. — A. G., Sept. 17. 
About Weeds, by Prof. A. N. Hume. 
— A. G., Sept. 10. 
The Tussock Moth — The Commonest 
Pest of Our Shade Trees; illustrated. — 
A. G., Sept. 10. 
Classification of Dahlias. — A. G., Sept. 
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Plants for Indoor Flowering, by J. A. 
Peterson. — A. G., Sept. 3. 
The Appointment of a State Forester. 
— W. R., Sept. 
The Water Elm, by Jens Jensen. — F. 
I., Aug. 
OBITUARY. 
Jacob Warren Manning, of the Read- 
ing nurseries at Reading, Mass., well- 
known for his own work and that of his 
sons, the landscape architects, died Sep- 
tember 16, at the age of 78 years. Mr. 
Manning comes from an old New Eng- 
land family and was born at Bedford, 
N. H., in 1826. He began his career as 
a nurseryman in 1849 as superintendent 
of the Winnesemitt Nursery at Chelsea, 
Mass., whose proprietor, S. W. Cole, 
well known as editor of the Boston Cul- 
tivator, author of the “American Fruit 
Book,” and as a producer of new varie- 
ties of fruits and fruit seedlings. In this 
nursery Mr. Manning planted the 
Concord grape in 1849. From that year 
until 1854 he held several positions as 
private gardener, and in 1854 established 
his present business at Reading. Mr. 
Manning has achieved a wide reputa- 
tion as an importer, raiser and intro- 
ducer of fruits and ornamental shrubs 
and trees, including evergreen trees in 
variety, prominent among them being the 
Rocky Mountain Blue Spruce ( Picea 
pungens ). As early as 1872 his Rocky 
Mountain evergreens numbered ten dif- 
ferent varieties. Some of the other 
shrubs introduced by him are the follow- 
ing: Clethra alnifolia\Celtis occidental- 
is, and Yucca Mamenlosa. He was 
an active member of the Masaschusetts 
Horticultural Society for 45 years, and 
also a member of the American Porno- 
logical Society, American Association of 
Sprinklers Built Especially for Use in Parks 
and Cemeteries. 
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