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PARK AND CEMRTKRY 
Park and Cemetery 
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LANDSCAPE GA RDENING 
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, 
^^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 i 
1538 Am.Tract Society Bldg,, New York, 
Subscription SI. 00 a Year in Advance. 
Foreign Subscription SI. 50. 
Published Monthly. 
ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN CEME- 
tery Superintendents : President, Geo. M. 
Painter, “West Laurel Hill,” Philadelphia; 
Vice-President, Frank Eurich, “Woodward 
Lawn,” Detroit, Mich.; Secretarj' and Treas- 
urer, H. Wilson Ross, Newton Center, Mass. 
The 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, Tremoiit Building, Boston, Mass.; 
Treasurer, O. C. Simonds, Chicago. 
The Fifth Annual Convention of the Asso- 
ciation will be held at Milwaukee, Wis., 
June 26, 2", 28. 1901. 
Publisher's Notes, 
We have received the first number of 
“The Southland,” a monthly magazine 
illustrative and descriptive of the indus- 
tries, commerce and resorts of the 
South. Published at Asheville, N. C. 
Edited by A. H. McQuilkin. Subscrip- 
tion, $i per year. It is clothed in an 
attractive cover, designed in green and 
gray, and has excellent presswork and 
half-tone illustrations. It will devote 
much of its space to the interests of the 
Appalachian National Park Associa- 
tion, which is engaged in promoting the 
establishing of a national forest re- 
serve in the Southern Appalachians. 
It will donate half the proceeds of its 
annual subscriptions to this association. 
T]je Appalachian National Park Asso- 
ciation is engaged in keeping public 
interest alive to the need of legi.slative 
action to save the non-agricultural for- 
est lands of the Southern Appalachian 
Mountains from destruction. The work 
will be taken up at the next Congress, 
and in the meantime the association is 
urgently in need of funds. Subscrip- 
tions can be sent to Dr. C. P. Ambler, 
Treasurer, P. O. Drawer 666, Asheville, 
N. C. 
Superintendent Edward W. Mitchell, 
of Oak Grove Cemetery, Medford. 
Mass., writes concerning the method of 
recording burials adopted by that cem- 
etery, enclosing specimens of interment 
cards, lot cards, and of certificates of 
burial, which are deposited by the cem- 
etery officials with the city health au- 
thorities. The interment card is filled 
out for every body placed in the tomb, 
and should the interment be in other 
than single graves, the record is also 
made on the lot card, giving grave 
number, name, date of interment and 
age. The returning of a certificate of 
burial to the health office, the Oak 
Grove officials believe, is a distinctive 
feature of their plan. 
In the next issue, in the adv. of the 
Bomgardner Lowering Device Co., of 
Cleveland, will appear a cut showing a 
34x90-inch burglar proof steel vault 
with a cedar slab, copper-lined casket 
and body weighing over 200 pounds, be- 
ing lowered, and also the same device 
with a 3-6 casket, showing its adjusta- 
bility to extreme sizes. 
“What Is A Kindergarten,” by Geo. 
Hansen, Landscape Architect, Berkeley, 
Cal. ; Elder & Shepard, San Francisco ; 
price, 75 cents. This little book is 
written to teach the importance of na- 
ture in the equipment and development 
of the kindergarten. The author ap- 
proaches his subject with the enthusi- 
asm of one who loves his work, tem- 
nered by the practical knowledge of the 
landscape gardener. Its pages are filled 
with practical suggestions for laying out 
kindergarten grounds, accompanied by 
nine diagrams showing details of plant- 
ing and arrangement on lots of differ- 
ent sizes. Some of the sections of par- 
ticular interest are: “Sidewalk Trees,” 
“Flowering Shrubs,” “Vines and 
Climbers,” “Perennial Border,” “Care of 
Plants and Grounds,” etc. Attractively 
bound and illustrated. 
Bulletin of the New York Botanical 
Garden, Vol. 2, No. 6; issued May 27, 
TQOi, and index to Vol. i. Reports of 
Committees and Officers, and botanical 
contributions illustrated with 21 plates, 
as follows : “Propagation of Lysima- 
chia Terrestris.” by D. T. Mac Dougal ; 
“The Mimosaceal of the Southeastern 
States,” by John K. Small : “Four Con- 
tributions to the Botany of the Yukon 
Territory,” bv Marshall A. Howe, R. S. 
Williams. L. M. Underwood, N. L. Brit- 
ton and P. A. Rydberg; “The Oakes of 
the Continental Divide North of Mex- 
ica.” by P. A. Rydberg. 
Cave Hill Cemetery Co.. Louisville. 
Ky., Charter, By-Laws, and Rules and 
Regulations and Charter of Cave Hill 
Investment Co. A book of 72 pages, sub- 
stantially bound in cloth containing a 
history of the cemetery and its charter, 
and all legislation, state and municipal, 
affecting it. Also an excellent map, 5 
feet bv 3 feet, showing location of lots 
by numbers. 
Pine Grove Cemetery. Lynn. Mass., 
Rules, Regulations and General Infor- 
mation, together with a Directory of 
Paths. Avenues, and I>ot Owners, igoo. 
A book of 114 nages. handsomely hound 
in cloth, and illustrated with half-tone 
views of cemetery scenery. 
Twentieth Century Memorial to Lot 
Owners of Glenwood Cemetery, Wash- 
ington, D. C. Historical Account. Re- 
cent Improvements, Charter and 
Amendments. Rules and Regulations, 
financial statements, and man, embodied 
in a handsome, wed-arranged book of 40 
pages. Attractively bound in brown 
and gold, and profusely illustrated with 
half tones. 
Annual Report of the Board of Re- 
gents of the Smithsonian Institution, 
showing the operations, expenditures, 
and condition of the Institution for the 
year 1899; 671 pages; Government 
printing office. 
The Kensico Cemetery, New York, N. 
Y. Annual Report to the Lot Owners 
for 1900, with Rules and Regulations. 
Contains list of lot owners, and infor- 
mation of value to visitors to cemeteries, 
as well as those connected with them. 
Handsomely bound and illustrated with 
half tones. 
Fifth Annual Report of the Commis- 
sioner of Highways, Ontario, Canada. 
Published by the Ontario Department of 
Public Works. Contains sections on 
“Provincial Co-operation,” “Roads and 
Agriculture,” “The Township Road Sys- 
tem,” and statistics and information of 
the highways of Ontario. Illustrated. 
Springfield, Mass., Park Commis- 
sioners’ Report for 1900. Reports of 
Officers, Financial Statements, Histor- 
ical sketch, and contributed articles on 
the birds and the flora of Forest Park. 
Neatly bound in cloth and illustrated 
with half-tones. 
Mount Royal Cemetery, Pittsburg and 
Allegheny, Pa. Descriptive illustrated 
booklet, handsomely bound in purple 
and gold. Containing Rules and Reg- 
ulations, Statistics and information and 
map of cemetery. 
Appendix to the Report of the Min- 
ister of Agriculture, Canada, on Exper- 
imental Farms, printed by order of Par- 
liament ; price 35 cents ; contains reports 
of the Director, the Agriculturist, the 
Horticulturist, the Chemist, the Ento- 
mologist and Botanist, the Poultry Man- 
ager, and the Superintendents of Ex- 
perimental Farms at Nappan, N. S., 
Brandon, Man., Indian Head, N. W. T., 
and Agassiz, B. C. 
Articles of Association of the West- 
wood Cemetery, Oberlin. O., together 
with revised By-Laws, Rules and Regu- 
lations, list of lot owners and map. Half- 
tone illustrations of cemetery views. 
The Propaganda for Nitrate of Soda ; 
John A. Myers, 12 John St., New York 
City. Twelve pamphlets on the “Use of 
Nitrate of Soda in Horticulture and 
Gardening.” 
Prospectus of Fern Dale Cemetery, 
Cloversville and Johnstown, N. Y., 1901. 
Neatly illustrated and bound. 
Annual Report of the Board of Trus- 
tees and other officials of the village of 
Morgan Park, 111 ., for the year ending 
April 16, 1901. Illustrated. 
Thirty-first annual report of the Buf- 
falo Park Commissioners, January, 1901. 
Complete financial statements and re- 
''”’'ts of all officers. An orderly and 
systematic statement of the park affairs 
of Buffalo. 
Manchester - in - the-Mountains, Ver- 
mont. An illustrated descriotive booklet 
issued by the Manchester Development 
Association. Copies sent on request to 
Secretary. 
Riverview Cemetery, South Bend, Ind. 
Historical and descriptive booklet, neatly 
printed and illustrated with half-tones. 
Trade Literature, Etc., Reteived. 
With an invitation to visit the Peony 
display at the nurseries of P. S. Peter- 
son & Sons, Chicago, comes an instruc- 
tive circular on “Peonies and Their 
Cultivation,” by Wm. A. Peterson, re- 
nrinted from the Cyclopedia of Amer- 
ican Horticulture. Mr. Peterson is 
an authority on this subjeect and any- 
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