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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, I. 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 SI. 60. 
Published Monthly. 
ASSOCIATION OP AMERICAN CEME- 
tery Superintendents : President, Geo. M. 
Painter, “West Laurel Hill,” Philadelphia; 
Vice-President, Frank Enrich, “Woodward 
Lawn,” Detroit, Mich.; Secretary 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, E. J. Parker, 
Quincy, 111.; Secretary, Warren H. Man- 
ning, Tremont Building, Boston, Mass.; 
Treasurer, O. C. Simonds, Chicago. 
Publisher's Notes, 
The first number of “The American 
Botanist” has been received. It is edit- 
ed by Willard N. Clute, editor of the 
Fein Bulletin, and author of “Ferns 
in Their Haunts,” and describes 
itself as a “monthly journal for the 
plant lover.” It is intended primarily 
for the lay reader; common names of 
plants are used, and the scientific 
names carefully enclosed in parenthesis 
so as not to impede the progress of 
the uninitiated. The following classes 
of subjects are specified as among those 
of which The Botanist will treat; 
“Records of the increase or decrease of 
any species, of the finding of rare spe- 
cies, the effect of environment upon 
plants, the uses made of our native 
species, the names by which they are 
known to farmers and 'herb-doc- 
tors,’ and the meaning of such names, 
experiments in cultivating and propa- 
gating our plants, and any subject 
connected with plant-ecology.” 
The three original leading articles in 
the first number are: “Balder’s Brow,” 
by C. F. Saunders, a picturesque ac- 
count of the familiar weed Anthemis 
cotula, and the origin of its name; 
“Devastation of Nature,” by G. Arm- 
ington Sayre, an appeal for moderation 
in the gathering of plants by collectors 
and others; and “Some Phases of Plant 
Distribution,” by the editor, a discus- 
sion of some of the peculiarities of 
plant distribution throughout the coun- 
try. The Botanist' is attractively 
bound, the articles are interesting and 
well-written, and should appeal to a 
wide class of readers. Subscriptiori, 
$1.00 a year; lo cents a copy; Willard 
Mr. George E. Kessler, Kansas City, 
N. Clute & Co., Binghampton, N. Y. 
Mo., has been appointed landscape arch- 
itect to the St. Louis Fair Commission. 
Mr. Kessler has been prominent in 
landscape work since 1882, when he re- 
turned from an extensive study of 
European parks. He planned the en- 
tire park system of Kansas City which 
was developed at a cost of $2,500,000, 
and a large part of the Baltimore park 
system. 
Mr. C. M. Loring, Minneapolis, 
Minn., writes as follows: 
Enclosed please find P. O. order for 
renewal of subscription to Park and 
Cemetery. I would not be without it 
for many times the cost. I wish a copy 
of it could be placed in every family in 
the country. It is an educator too 
many need. 
) BOOKS, REPORTS, ETC., RECEIVED. ) 
The Century Supplement to “Nich- 
olson’s Dictionary of Gardening,” 
Vol. II. Price $5.00 per volume: 
George T. King, Hyde Park, Mass. 
The second and concluding volume of 
the Supplement to the Dictionary and 
Cyclopedia of Horticulture by Geo. 
Nicholson, Curator Royal Gardens. 
Kew, and a staff of scientific special- 
i.sts, is now ready, and together with 
the four original volumes con- 
stitutes' a work that no one interested 
in any branch of horticulture can afford 
to be without. The completion of the 
supplement to this work, for many 
years the standard authority in its 
field, means that it has been brought 
down to date with the same elaborate 
care and scientific accuracy that char- 
acterized the earlier volumes of the 
book, and the first volume of the sup- 
plement which was reviewed at length 
in Park and Cemetery in September, 
IQOO. The latest discoveries in new 
plants, in hybridizing, in cultivation, in 
plant diseases and their treatment, 
which have been going on since the 
first publication of the dictionary, have 
been collected and incorporated in 
the Supplement, with the same admir- 
able method and arrangement, which 
have made the book both a practical 
working guide and a storehouse of in- 
formation. It constitutes also an in- 
teresting chapter in the history of hor- 
ticulture by comparing it with the 
earlier volumes, and noting the changes 
in nomenclature, and the advance in 
horticultural science that have taken 
place. That it is a supplement that 
really supplements, can be readily seen 
by examining a few examples of well- 
known plants taken at random from 
the last volume. Under Nymphaea 
are given twenty-two different species 
and varieties in addition to those 
found in Vol. II; of Gladiolus there 
were 55 new names; under Lilium 
there were 88. under Quercus, 97. and 
under Iris no. 
Vol. II from G to Z contains 7.17 
pages, profusely illustrated wnth half- 
tone engravings and many full page 
colored plates, and is well fitted both 
in form and substance to stand at the 
end of such a valuable work. 
“Laws of Cemetery Associations,” by 
John Power, comprising the law as to 
cemeteries, undertakers, embalmers, 
and burials in the state of New York, 
with statutory amendments down to 
and including the session of 1901. Al- 
bany, N. Y.; W. C. Little & Co.; price, 
$1.00. This book contains the entire 
body of law of the state of New York, 
case law as well as the unrepealed leg- 
islation, and prominent decisions from 
other states. It is designed not merely 
for the use of lawyers, but for ceme- 
tery and towm officials, religious cor- 
porations, clergymen, undertakers, eni- 
balmers, physicians, dealers in monu- 
ments, lot owners and others. Techni- 
cal terms have been avoided, but close 
references to the section of the legal 
code are always given, so that the ex- 
act wording of the laws can be readily 
asqertained. There are 15 chapters 
with references to 90 cases, and a use- 
ful series of legal forms annexed, such 
as: Certificates of Incorporation, Deed 
of Cemetery lots. Transfer of lot. 
Forms of Devise or Beciuest, etc. 
Some of the chapters are: Incorpora- 
tion of Cemeteries. Eminent Domain. 
Government and Management of Cem- 
eteries. Sale, Mortgage and Lease of 
Cemetery Property. Opening High- 
ways Through Cemeteries, Desecra- 
tion of Cemeteries, Transfer of Lots, 
etc. The book contains 150 pages, and 
is well written and readable, as well as 
full of valuable legal information. 
Cornell University Agricultural Ex- 
periment Station, Ithaca, N. Y.. Bulle- 
tin iQ.i — “Studies of Some Shade Tree 
and Timber Destroying Eungi,” by 
Geo. F. Atkinson. 
Forty-first Annual Report of tbe 
Board of Park Commissioners, Hart- 
ford, Conn., for the year ending April 
50, igoi. Illustrated with half-tone 
views of park scenery, and a diagram 
of Goodwin Park and interesting sta- 
tistics. 
Oakland Cemetery. Princeton, 111 . 
Ordinances, Rules and Regulations and 
Description of Grounds; illustrated 
with half-tones. 
Belleville Cemetery Co.. Belleville, 
Ont. Organization, Record of Officers. 
By-Laws, Rules, and Tariff. 
Sixteenth Annual Report of the 
Maine Agricultural Experiment Sta- 
tion, Orono, Me., 1900; 228 pages, il- 
lustrated. 
Eighth Annual Report of the Board 
of Park Commissioners, Des IMoines, 
la., for the year ending April i. 1901. 
Contains the state laws in regard to 
parks. Reports of officials, and discus- 
sions of park matters by specialists. A 
neatly bound book of 78 pages with 
many half-tone views of park scenery. 
Twenty-sixth Annual Report of the 
Board of Park Commissioners, Bos- 
ton, Mass. A comprehensive report, 
giving full statistics and information 
concerning the Boston park system. 
Excellent half-tone illustrations, and 
map of Olmsted Park. 
.Articles of Association with the re- 
vised By-Laws and Rules of Oakland 
Cemetery Association. St. Paul, Minn. 
Neatly bound and handsomely illus- 
trated with half-tones. 
Mount Hope Cemetery, Rochester, 
N. Y. Address to the Lot-Owners 
relative to perpetual care. List of 
Lot Owners. Neatly illustrated. 
Rules and Regulations of Wyoming 
Cemetery. Melrose, Mass. Also speci- 
mens of official forms, neatly printed 
and conveniently arranged, used by the 
Wyoming Cemetery. 
