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PARK AND CEMETERY 
Nurserymen, American Forestry Asso- 
ciation and many state and local organ- 
izations. He has made a specialty of 
evergreens, of which he has had as many 
as ioo varieties and is said to have the 
largest collection of hardy herbaceous 
plants in the United States. Mr. Man- 
ning has five sons, all of whom have 
achieved unusual success in landscape 
and nursery work. Warren H. and J. 
Woodward are well-known landscape ar- 
chitects, William S. is superitendent of 
the extensive Essex County, N. J., park 
system and A. C. and B. F. have been 
associated with their father in the Read- 
ing nurseries. 
John Storer Cobb, founder of the New 
England Cremation Society and an un- 
tiring worker in behalf of cremation, 
died at Northampton, Mass., in Febru- 
ary. He was the author of “A Quarter 
Century of Cremation in North Amer- 
ica.” 
Publisher's Notes. 
The Peterson Nursery, of Chicago, re- 
cently sent 18 species and 107 varieties 
of peonies to Cornell University, Ithaca, 
N. Y., to be placed in the peony testing 
fields. This firm has moved its down- 
town nursery office to the nursery 
grounds at Lincoln and Peterson ave- 
nues, but will retain the present down- 
town office at 164 La Salle street, as the 
headquarters of the landscape depart- 
ment, which is rapidly increasing in im- 
portance. 
Mr. John Applebee, Ashtabula, O., 
would like to hear from cemtery super- 
intendents who have had experience with 
concrete in the construction of receiv- 
ing vaults. 
“Everybody’s” was a popular maga- 
zine published up to the coming of 
Thomas W. Lawson’s “Frenzied Fi- 
nance” and its circulation was constantly 
growing, but now it is increasing by 
such leaps that the publishers promise a 
circulation of 400,000 with the next is- 
sue. Getting Mr. Lawson to write his 
now famous story was a great stroke of 
enterprise. 
The American Undertaker, of Boston, 
has been merged with the Embalmers’ 
Monthly, published by the Trade Peri- 
odical Co., 355 Dearborn street, Chicago. 
Cemetery Pointers. 
Order nursery stock this month. Pat- 
ronize Park and Cemetery advertis- 
ers and tell them where you saw their 
ndv. 
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