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PARK AND CEMETERY 
Park and Cemetery 
AND - . 
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, 
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 ^1.00 a Year in Advance. 
Foreign Subscription !$1.50. 
Published Monthly. 
ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN CEME- 
tery Superintendents : President, Geo. M. 
Painter, "West Laurel Hill,” Philadelphia; 
Vice-President, Prank Eurich, “Woodward 
Lawn,” Detroit, Mich.; Secretary and Treas- 
urer, H. Wilson Ross, Newton Center, Mass. 
The Kilteenth Annual Convention will be 
held at Pittsburg, Pa., September, 10th, 11th, 
12th, 1901. 
THE AMERICAN PARK AND OUT DOOR 
Art Association; President, E. J. Parker, 
Quincy, 111.; Secretary, Warren H. Man- 
ning, Treniont Building, Boston, Mass.; 
Treasurer, O. C. Siraonds, Chicago. 
Publisher's Notes. 
Warren H. and J. Woodward Man- 
ning, Boston, Mass., liave entered into 
co-partnership as landscape architects, 
under the firm name of Manning Broth- 
ers. 
The 17th annual meeting of the So- 
ciety of American Florists will be held 
at Buffalo, N. Y., August 6-10. Rail- 
roads in the Trunk Line Association 
have made a rate of one and one-third 
single fare for round trip tickets. 
Mr. Dav'id Woods, Pittsburg, Pa., 
chairman of the executive committee 
for the 15th adnual convention of the 
Association of American Cemetery Su- 
perintendents, to be held at Pittsburg 
September 10, ii, 12, 1901, has com- 
pleted the program for that occasion. 
The papers are fewer in number than at 
recent conventions, insuring more time 
for discussion. The points of interest 
to be visited in and around Pittsburg 
during the afternoon outings will make 
the occasion a pleasant and profitable 
one. The programme will be printed 
in full in our next issue. 
Mr. J. A. Naff, Dublin, Va., has been 
appointed superintendent of East Hill 
Cemetery, Bristol, Tenn. 
Photographs of views in Tranquifity 
Cemetery, Tranquility, N. J., have been 
received from Mr. H'. S. Wintermute. 
superintendent. 
A photograph of a group of Yucca 
filamentosa in full bloom on the 
grounds of iMr. John Way, Jr., Sewick- 
ly. Pa., has been received from that 
gentleman. 
I BO^IrEPORTS, ETC,, RBCEIV^S^^ 
“Our Ferns in their Haunts,” by Wil- 
lard Nelson Clute, editor of the Fern 
Bulletin, and formerly assistant curator 
of the New York Botanical Garden. 
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Com- 
pany; 332 pages; price, $2.15, net, $2.35, 
postpaid. The scarcity of our fern lit- 
erature should bespeak for this excel- 
lent work a hearty welcome from all 
quarters. It is written in bright inter- 
esting style, and is well calculated to 
stimulate the interest of the lay reader 
as well as to convey more detailed in- 
formation regarding the haunts and 
habits of the ferns than is found in the 
text books. Descriptions and illustra- 
tion of every species known to grow in 
North America north of the Gulf States 
and east of the Rocky Mountains, with 
both botanical and common names, 
make the book as well adapted to the 
careful student as to the layman. The 
illustrated key to the genera, making 
identification particularly easy; a com- 
plete account of the recent changes in 
scientific nomenclature and a check list 
giving the other names by which differ- 
ent species have been known; the in- 
dex of both common and scientific 
names; and the handsome illustrations 
— over 200 in number — in color, in 
wash and pen and ink, are some of the 
features which give value to the work 
and show care and accuracy in prepara- 
tion. 
“Sylvan Ontario, A Guide to Our Na- 
tive Trees and Shrubs,” by W. H. Mul- 
drew, B. A., D. Paed. Toronto; Win. 
Briggs, price, $1.00. An attractive lit- 
tle book, bound in flexible leather and 
sylvan from cover to cover. Its pur- 
pose is to introduce the forest trees in 
a popular way to the intelligent reader. 
It is a practical guide to the study of 
trees, illustrated by many drawings of 
leaves made from nature by the author, 
and accompanied by condensed descrip- 
tions of the native trees and shrubs of 
Ontario. The exactness of the descrip- 
tions and the use of both scientific and 
common names will commend the book 
to the botanist as well as the layman as 
a ready and accurate work of reference. 
The Missouri Botanical Garden; 
twelfth annual report, 1901. Contains 
reports of the officers of the Board of 
Trustees, the report of the Director, 
William Trelease, and six scientific 
papers as follows: A Disease of the 
Black Locust, by Herman von Schrenk; 
Crotons of the United States, by A. M. 
Ferguson: An Undescribed Agave 
from Arizona, by J. W. Tourney; A 
Cristate Pellaea, and A Pacific Slope 
Palmetto, by William Trelease; Gar- 
den Beans Cultivated as Esculents, by 
H. C. Irish, 165 pages; illustrated with 
half-tone engravings. 
Proceedings of the Thirty-fourth An- 
nual Convention of the American In- 
stitute of Architects; edited by the Sec- 
retary Glenn Brown, Washington, D. 
C. 
Annual Report of the Board of Park 
Commissioners, Saint Paul, Minn., 1900- 
igoi. Contains reports of the President, 
Superintendent, Secretary and detailed 
financial and other statements; a well- 
ordered report, attractively bound, and 
illustrated with half-tone views of park 
scenery. 
Report of the State Board of Health 
of Ohio, for 1899; 644 pages; State 
printer, Columbus, Ohio. 
Transactions of the Massachusett.s 
Horticultural Society for the year 1900, 
Part II. Contains reports of commit- 
tees on flowers, native plants for- 
estry and roadside improvements, 
school gardens and other interesting 
branches of work carried on by the so- 
ciety. Illustrated with half tones. 
U. S. Department of Agriculture, Di- 
vision of Forestry, A Forest Working 
Plan for Township 40, New York State 
Forest Preserve, Hamilton County, N. 
Y. Four maps and numerous half-tone 
illustrations. 
Souvenir of the California State 
Floral Society. Description of the an- 
nual flower show, and containing con- 
tributed articles and poems on some of 
California’s flowers. Neatly illustrated. 
The Macmillan Company, New York: 
Descriptive circular of "Flowers and 
Ferns, and Their Haunts,” by Mabel 
Osgood Wright. A botanical narrative 
for both lay readers and botanists; 352 
pages; 57 full page plates; 118 text il- 
lustrations; price, $2.50. 
Maine Agricultural Experiment Sta- 
tion, Bulletin No. 74, Orono, Me., "The 
Manurial Value of Ashes, Muck, Sea 
Weeds, and Bones.” 
Cornell University Agricultural Ex- 
periment Station, Bulletin 190, "Three 
Unusual Strawberry Pests, and a 
Greenhouse Pest,” by M. V. Slinger- 
land. 
Annual Report upon the improvement 
and care of oublic buildings an.l 
grounds, and care and maintenance of 
the Washington monument, in the Dis- 
trict of Columbia, in charge of Col. 
Theo. A. Bingham, U. S. A., being Ap- 
pendix HHH of the Annual Report of 
the chief of engineers for 1900. Wash- 
ington, Government Printing office. 
