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PARK AND CEMETERY 
Park and Cemetery 
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LANDSCAPE GARDENING 
ESTABLISHED 1890. 
OBJECT: To advance Art-out-of-Doors, with 
special reference to the Improvement of parks, 
cemeteries, home grounds, and the promotion of 
Town and Village Improvement Associations, 
etc, 
DISCUSSIONS of subjects pertinent to these 
columns by persons practically acquainted with 
them, are especially desired, 
ANNUAL REPORTS of Parks, Cemeteries, 
Horticultural, Local Improvement and similar 
societies are solicited, 
PHOTOGRAPHS or sketches of specimen 
trees, new and little known trees and shrubs, 
landscape effects, entrances, buildings, etc,, are 
solicited, 
John W. Weston, C. E,, Editor. 
R. J, HAIGHT. Publisher, 
324 Dearborn St., CHICAGO. 
Eastern Office t 
1538 Am.Tract Society Bldg., New York. 
Subseription S 1 .00 a Year in Advance. 
Foreign Subscription !S1.‘.J5. 
ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN CEME- 
tery Superintendents : President, Geo. M. 
Painter, "West Laurel Hill,” Philadelphia; 
Vice-President, Frank Eurich, "Woodward 
Lawn.” Detroit, Mich.: Secretary and Treas- 
urer, H. Wilson Ross, Newton Center, Mass. 
TPhe Fifteenth Annual Convention will be 
held at Pittsburg, Pa., September, 10th, 11th, 
12th, 1901. 
THE AMERICAN PARK AND OUT-DOOR 
Art Association ; President, L. E Holden, 
Cleveland, O.; Secretary, Warren H, Man- 
ning, Tremont Building, Boston, Mass.; 
Treasurer. O. C. Simonds, Chicago. 
The Fifth Annual Convention of the Asso- 
ciation will be held at Milwaukee, Wis., 
June 2t>, 27, 28, 1901. 
Publisher's Notes, 
The Westminster Cemetery Com- 
pany, Thirteenth and Arch streets, Phil- 
adelphia. announces a change of offi- 
cers beginning May I, igoi. Mr. Wm 
J. Phillips, Jr,, for seventeen years iden- 
tified with the West Laurel Hill Ceme- 
tery. will be secretary and treasurer, 
and will take personal charge of the city 
offices. Mr. George M. Painter, who 
has been superintendent of West Laurel 
Hill for fourteen years, will be the new 
superintendent of Westminster. Mr. 
Albanus L, Smith, treasurer and gen- 
eral manager of West Laurel Hill, suc- 
ceeds Mr. Painter as superintendent, 
and Mr. C. B. Jefferson succeeds Mr. 
Phillips as assistant secretary and treas- 
urer. 
} BOOKS, REPORTS, ETC, RECEIVED. } 
CYCLOPEDIA OF AMERICAN 
HORTICULTURE, comprising sug- 
gestions for cultivation of liorticultural 
plants, descriptions of the species of 
fruits, vegetables, flowers and orna- 
mental plants sold in the United States 
and Canada, together with geographical 
and biographical sketches. By I-. H. 
Bailey. Professor of Horticulture in 
Cornell University, assisted by Wil- 
helm 3 Iiller, Ph. D.. and many expert 
cultivators and botanists. Illustrated 
with over 2,000 original engravings. In 
four volumes. Vol. Ill, N.-Q. New 
York: The Macmillan Co. Chicago: 
A. C. McClurg & Co. Price. $5. 
The third volume of Prof. Bailey’s 
valuable work is in every way a worthy 
successor of the two preceding ones, 
which have been reviewed in detail in 
Park and Cemetery. In method, mat- 
ter and arrangement it differs in no 
essential particular from the two vol- 
umes which have already won a well- 
deserved place in the library of Ameri- 
can horticulture. The list of collabora- 
tors, containing the names of the fore- 
most specialists and practical workers 
in every branch of horticulture, is in 
itself a guarantee of the accuracy -and 
breadth of the work, and leaves little 
to he said save words of praise. This 
volume contains 430 pages, and follow- 
ing its predecessor in less than a year, 
testifies to the energy as well as to the 
skill of the editors and contributors. 
A few of the longer contributions 
which our limited space permits ns to 
mention are the following: 
The contribution on Parks by Fred- 
erick Law Olmsted, Jr., is one of the 
most valuable in the book, coming as 
it does from one of the family of park- 
makers who have been identified with 
the largest undertakings in that line in 
this country. It contains seven illus- 
trations and maps, and is grouped in 
the following divisions: (i) The large 
rural park — Prospect Park, Brooklyn, 
a typical example; (2) The small city, 
park — Morningside Park, New York, 
typical: (3) Neighborhood pleasure 
grounds; (4) Squares, places, gardens, 
etc.; (5) Parkways and boulevards; (6) 
Outlying reservations. In addition to 
these are short paragraphs on Manage- 
ment, Statistics and Bibliography. 
Some of the other more important 
contributions are: “Nymphaea," by 
Henry S. Conard, E. D. Sturtevant, 
Wm. Tricker and Assistant Editor Mil- 
ler; ‘'Quercus,” by Alfred Rehder; 
“Pansy," by Prof. Bailey and Denys 
Zirngieliel; “Palm,” by Prof. Bailey, 
Ernest Brannton and W. H. Taplin; 
"Paeonia,” by K. C. Davis and W. -A.. 
Peterson; “Perfumery Gardening,’’ by 
E. S. Steele; “Primula,” by Prof. Bai- 
ley. Robert Cameron and Adolf Jae- 
nicke; “Pinns.’’ by Alfred Rehder: 
"Petunia,” by Mrs. Thomas Gould; 
and "Pelargonium.” by Prof. Bailey, C. 
W. Ward and T. D. Hatfield. 
A Text-Book of Plant Diseases 
caused by Cryptogamic Parasites, by 
George Massee, F. L. S., Principal As- 
sistant, Royal Herbarium, Kew. Lon- 
don: Duckworth & Co. New York: 
The Macmillan Company, Price, $1.60. 
A practical book to help those direct- 
ly occupied in the cultivation of plants 
to determine the nature of diseases 
caused by parasites of vegetable origin, 
and to take curative and preventive 
measures according to methods ap- 
proved by experience; 458 pages; many 
illustrations. Some of the chapters are 
as follows: Fungi, Fungicides, Fun- 
gous Parasites, Spraying. Lichenes, 
Bacteria, Mvxogastres, Diseases of 
Uncertain Origin, Economic Consider- 
ations. Descriptions of diseases in 
both technical and popular terms, and 
the eminently practical directions for 
spraying, manuring, detection and pre- 
vention of diseases are features which 
commend the book to scientists, prac- 
tical gardeners and amateurs alike. 
“Plums and Plum Culture,” by F. A. 
Waugh, University of Vermont Experi- 
ment Station. New York; Orange Judd 
Co. A monograph of the plums culti- 
vated and indigenous in North Amer- 
ica, with a complete account of their 
propagation, cultivation and utilization. 
A complete list and descriptions of all 
the native plums and many of the Do- 
mestica varieties; 370 pages, profusely 
illustrated. A valuable book for stu- 
dents of pomology and practical plum 
cultivators as well. The following chap- 
ters are especially worthy of note: The 
Propagation of Plums, Orchard and 
Garden Management, Diseases of the 
Plum, Insect and Other Enemies of the 
Plum, Plum Trees as Ornamental 
Plants. 
Extermination of the Oak at Lake 
Geneva, Wis., by James Jensen. In 
pamphlet form, reprinted from The 
Forester, Vol. VII. No. 3, March, 
igoi. Mr. Jensen, after making a care- 
ful study of the causes of the threatened 
destruction of the beautiful forest lands 
around Lake Geneva, attributes the 
trouble largely to insufficient moisture, 
and suggests the following preventive 
measures: Protection, by inducing 
growth of shrubbery and long grass; 
cultivation, which makes the soil por- 
ous and permits heat and moisture to 
penetrate; artificial watering during ex- 
treme hot weather. Copies of the pam- 
phlet will be sent on receipt of a two- 
cent stamp, by James Jensen, 534 Sac- 
ramento avenue, Chicago. 
Report of the Board of Park Com- 
missioners for 1900, New Bedford, 
Mass. A systematic and orderly re- 
port, attractive in appearance, profusely 
illustrated with half-tone views from the 
parks. 
Eighteenth Annual Report of the 
Board of Park Commissioners, Minne- 
apolis, Minn,, containing the presi- 
dent’s address, reports of the attorney, 
the superintendent and the secretary’s 
financial report. Many well-executed 
half-tone engravings of park scenery. 
The Board of Park Commissioners, 
Toledo, Ohio, Annual Report for the 
year 1900. Complete statement of the 
organization and finances, extent of 
work done, work proposed, relations 
of the parks to the railroad and trac- 
tion companies, embodied in the presi- 
dent’s report. Detailed reports of 
other officers. Neatly illustrated. 
Eighth Annual Report of the Massa- 
chusetts Highway Commission, Bos- 
ton, 1901, containing account of work 
done and projected by the commission, 
and tables giving valuable detailed in- 
formation and statistics of Massachu- 
setts highways. 
Seventeenth Annual Report of the 
Trustees of Cemeteries, Malden, Mass., 
for the year ending Dec. 31, 1900, com- 
prising financial statements and super- 
intendenPs report of the three ceme- 
teries of Malden. 
Condensed Rules and Regulations of 
the new Graceland Cemetery, New Cas- 
tle, Pa., together with an announcement 
to the friends and lot-owners of Green- 
wood Cemetery, proposing the union 
of the two cemeteries. 
Map of country surrounding Oak 
Tree, N. J., showing location and ad- 
vantages of sites of the proposed ceme- 
teries of that place. From Adam 
Frank, attorney, 32 Nassau St., New 
York. 
Mount Auburn Cemetery, Boston, 
Mass. Handsomely illustrated and at- 
tractively bound booklet, illustrating 
beautiful views and monuments in the 
cemetery, together with map and ex- 
planatory circular showing location of 
graves of famous people interred there. 
