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PARK AND CEMRTERY 
Park and Cemetery 
-^ AND - 
LANDSCAPE GARDENING 
ESTABLISHED 1890. 
OBJECT: To advance Art-out-of-Uoors, W'lth 
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. ]. HAIGHT, Publisher, 
324 Dearborn St., CHICAGO, 
Eastern Office t 
1538 Am.Tract Society Bldg., New York, 
Subscription SSl.OO a Year in Advance. 
Foreign Subscription SSI. 50. 
Publi.shed IVlonthiy. 
ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN CEME- 
tery Superintendents : President, Frank Eu- 
rich, “Woodward Lawn"'. Detroit, Mich.; 
Vice-President, H. Wilson Ross, “Newton”, 
Newton Center, Mass; Secretary and Treas- 
urer, J. H. Morton, “City Cemeteries”, Boston, 
Mass. 
The Sixteenth Annual Convention will be 
held at Boston, Mass., 1902. 
THE AMERICAN PARK AND OUT-DOOR 
Art Association; President, E. J. Parker, 
Quincy, 111.; Secretary, Warren H. Man- 
ning, Tremout Building, Boston, Mass.; 
Treasurer, O. C. Simonds, Chicago. 
Publisher's Notes, 
The Kansas City Times quotes iMr. 
Sid. J. Hare, of that city, at consideralile 
length on the subject of the modern 
cemetery and illustrates the interviev.’ 
with several views of Forest Hills Cem- 
etery, which under Mr. Hare’s supervis- 
ion has been changed from “an almost 
prairie to a beautiful garden.” 
Mr. William C. Pirie has been elected 
secretary of Forest Homie Cemetery, 
Milwaukee, Wis., to succeed the late 
Capt. Edw'ard L. Ferguson. Mr. Pirie 
has served as assistant secretary for 
seven years. 
Obituary. 
Mt. Charles Creesy, for 33 years su- 
perintendent of Harmony Grove Ceme- 
tery, Salem, Mass., died recently at his 
home in Beverly, Mass., at the age of 84 
years. He was born and educated in 
Beverly, and obtained his first experi- 
ence as superintendent of Kernwood, the 
Francis Peabody Estate, in North Sa- 
lem. He was superintendent of Har- 
mony Grove from 1847 to 1880, when he 
was succeeded by his son, George W. 
Creesy. He was the oldest member of 
Essex Lodge, I. O. O. F., and leaves 
three sons, three daughters, ten grand- 
children and three great-grandchildren. 
^ BOOKS, REPORTS, ETC., RECEIVED. ^ 
The Improvement of Towns and Cit- 
ies, or The Practical Basis of Civic Aes- 
thetics, by Charles Mulford Robinson. 
New York and London : G. P. Putnam’'-' 
Sons. Price, $1.25, net. 
It is quite evident that the first step to 
be taken in comprehending and assisting 
the awakening sense of civic im- 
provement is to survey the field 
to see what has been done, and 
how it has been done, in order that we 
may better know what to avoid and what 
to strive for. In this process of getting 
acquainted with the vast field of im'- 
provement effort, the worker and the 
general reader can find no more valua- 
ble guide or pleasant companion than 
Mr. Robinson’s book. As the author 
says in his preface, volumes have been 
written on the subject of any one of 
the chapters, and the work makes no 
pretense of being an exhaustive treatise. 
It differs from such a work as an ex- 
quisite painting differs from a plotted 
diagram. It is not burdened^ with tables 
of statistics or official documents, but is 
everywhere readable and interesting, 
clear and concise in statement, and thor- 
oughly competent in both form and mat- 
ter. For the close student and the spe- 
cialist there is always reference to socie- 
ties, workers, publications, and official 
documents, so that statistics and details 
may be readily obtained at first hand. 
The liook thus has every effect of thor- 
oughness without bccom'ing burdensome 
to the general reader. In stating its pur- 
pose Mr. Robinson says: “It does not 
pretend to say all that can be said 
of the work for beauty in cities and vil- 
lages ; but reviewing the whole broad 
field of the modern effort, it tries to pick 
out the salient points, to declare the best 
that has been done along every line, and 
how, and when and where it was done — 
encouraging by showing the progress at- 
tainable because somewhere attained 
* * * It has seemed well, in the gre.at 
new awakening of enthusiasm and con- 
cern for city beauty in a score of direc- 
tions, at least to grasp them all, to group 
them logically in a single volume, and 
show the relative positions.” 
Some of the chapters that will be of 
especial interest to readers of Park and 
Cemetery are the following: The Ad- 
vertisement Problem, Making Utilities 
Beautiful, The Tree’s Importance, Possi- 
bilities of Gardening, Parks and Drives, 
Squares and Playgrounds, Function and 
Placing of Sculpture, Popular Education 
in Art, Work of Individuals and Socie- 
ties, Work of Officials. The book is ad- 
mirably adapted to its dual purpose as a 
work of reference and handbook for 
workers, and an inspiration and incent- 
ive to all who are interested in the mod- 
ern warfare against dirt and ugliness in 
our cities and towns. As an entertaining 
story of the m'ovement toward civic 
beauty, and a comprehensive guide to 
further efforts, it should attract a wide 
circle of readers. 
Forest Extension in the Middle West, 
by William L. Hall, Assistant Superin- 
tendent of Tree Planting, Bureau of For- 
estry. Reprint from Yearbook of De- 
partment of Agriculture. An in- 
teresting and valuable discussion of 
tree planting for commercial purposes 
in the middle West. The writer consid- 
ers the past success in planting, the fut- 
ure prospects, and the adaptability to 
certain sections of the country of such 
trees as the oak, catalpa, osage orange, 
locust, cedar, mulberry, black walnut, 
and tamarack. He points out that profit 
is the only basis on which planting can 
be carried on, and takes as the purpose 
of his article “to show that the time has 
arrived for the extensive development 
of forest plantations throughout the 
middle West, to indicate the sphere of 
general planting, and suggest a plan of 
procedure in carrying out the work.” 
Concerning the possibilities of forestry 
he says : 
“From every reasonable point of view, 
it appears that great profits are to be 
made in the growing of forest trees in 
the next twenty-five years. Every condi- 
;ion is so favorable that the matter passes 
from probability to certainty. That op- 
erations should begin in the middle West 
is due to the fact that there the supply 
of natural products is most nearly ex- 
hausted. prices are highest, soil most 
fertile, and people most familiar with 
the process of developing plantations.” 
Oakland Cemetery Association, St. 
Paul, Minn. Articles of Association 
with Revised By-Laws and Rules; 1901. 
Artistically bound and illustrated with 
excellent half-tone views of cemetery 
scenery. 
American Association of Nurserymen. 
Report of the twenty-sixth annual meet- 
ing, containing constitution and by-laws, 
full proceedings of the meeting, and list 
of members. 
Trade Literature, Etc., Received. 
William's & Sons, Batavia, 111 ., Whole- 
sale List of Florists’ and Nursery Sup- 
plies ; fall and winter 1901, 1902. Also 
sample of tree and plant labels. 
Fred’k W. Kelsey, 150 Broadway, Ne-w 
York. Catalogue of Specialties in choice, 
hardy Trees, Shrubs, Roses, Herbaceous 
Plants, Bulbs, etc., for fall planting; No. 
47, Autumn, 1901. Half-tone illustra- 
tions. Also Supplemental List, Autumn, 
1901, and Spring, 1902. 
Phoenix Nursery Company, Blooming- 
ton, 111 . Price List of Trees, Plants, 
Shrubs, Roses, Bulbs, Greenhouse and 
