PARK AND CEMETERY 
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caused the article on that cemetery which 
appeared in Park and Cemetery last 
month, to be reproduced in the Hamil- 
ton Republican-News. Publicity of this 
kind is a good thing for cemeteries, 
there should be more of it. 
“Elmlawn" is the title of a neatly print- 
ed and illustrated six-page folder issued 
by Elmlawn Cemetery, Buffalo, N. Y. 
It bears a striking half-tone title design, 
a picture of the new funeral car recently 
illustrated in these pages, two other half- 
tone views, a brief description of the 
cemetery, and a list of prices of lots. 
Wood- Stubbs & Co., Seedsmen, of 
Louisville, Ky., were awarded the Gold 
Medal at the Louisiana Purchase Expo- 
sition at St. Louis, for a general exhibit 
of Seeds. The exhibit is located in 
block 120, Agricultural Hall, on one of 
the main aisles and has been highly 
complimented as one of the most com- 
plete and attractive of the exhibits in 
this line. The general design is taste- 
fully arranged and the exhibit com- 
prises a complete assortment of Garden 
and Field Seeds, each sort being nicely 
displayed and labeled in blue with gold 
letters in keeping with their trade mark 
of “Blue Ribbon Seeds.” This firm has 
developed a large trade in the seed busi- 
ness in Louisville and sell seeds to all 
parts of this country and Canada as well 
as many foreign countries. Their an- 
nual catalogue issued in January and 
mailed free on request is a complete 
book, containing full lists and descrip- 
tions of all kinds of seeds with curtural 
instructions, hints about the time to 
sow, varieties best suited for various 
soils and much other valuable informa- 
tion of interest to planters. 
The Porcupine — A Road Machine. 
I he accompanying illustration shows 
two views of the “Porcupine, ”a new road 
scarifier, a machine designed 
to simplify and cheapen the 
repair of macadam roads. 
The machine is attached by 
a chain to an ordinary eight 
or ten-ton steam roller. It 
loosens and separates the 
particles of the road sur- 
face without breaking the 
pieces of crushed stone 
composing it. The Porcu- 
pine weighs about 4,000 
pounds, and will break up 
the surface of the hardest 
macadam in a uniform 
manner to a depth that 
will remove ruts and per- 
mit of re-forming the road. 
The surface can then be 
rolled to put the road in 
ESTABLISHED 1844. 
Hitchings' 
NEW 
MOGUL 
BOILERS 
For Hot Water or Steam. 
HOT WATER Radiation from 
4,200 Square Feet and Up. 
STEAM Radiation from 2,500 
Square Feet and Up. 
Hitchings & Co. 
Horticultural Architects 
and Builders, 
233 Mercer St., NEW YORK. 
good condition either with or without 
the addition of new crushed stone. The 
spikes which form the working part of 
the scarifier can readily be removed for 
sharpening and replaced at small ex- 
pense. The machine is manufactured by 
Julian Scholl & Co., 126 Liberty St., 
New York, wdto will send Circular No. 
34, illustrating and describing it. 
Trade Catalogues Etc., Received. 
Fall, 1904. Wholesale Trade List of 
Thomas Meehan & Sons, Dreshertown, 
Pa. 
Otto Katzenstein & Co., Atlanta, Ga., 
and New r York City; 1904-5 catalog of 
American seeds and plants. 
Peony Catalog, fall 1904; Cottage 
Gardens Co., Queens, Long Island. N. Y. 
E. Ferrand & Son, Detroit, Mich.; 
trade price-list of choice nursery stock ; 
fall and spring, 1904-5. 
Climax Road Machine Co., Marathon, 
N. Y. ; annual illustrated catalog of road 
machinery, stone and ore crushers, ele- 
vators, distributing wagons, bridges, 
traction engines, screens, etc. 
Autumn 1904 wholesale catalogue, 
Mt- Desert Nurseries, Bar Harbor, 
Me. ; hardy herbaceous perennials, seed- 
lings, young plants, etc. Illustrated 
catalogue of trees, shrubs, etc. 
Advertisements, limited to five lines, ■will be 
inserted in this column at the rate of so cents each 
insertion^ words to a line. Cash must accom 
pany order. 
A cemetery superintendent thoroughly 
experienced in all kinds ol' cemetery 
management wants a position as such 
anywhere in United States; practical 
landscape gardener, competent to lay out 
and organize new cemeteries or improve 
existing ones. F. M. A., care Park and 
Cemetery. 
THE PORCUPINE ROAD SCARIFIER IN OPERATION. 
