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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, 
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, 
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Subscription SI. 00 a Year in Advance. 
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Published Monthly. 
ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN CEME- 
tery Superintendents ; President, Frank En- 
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, Tremont Building, Boston, Mass.; 
Treasurer, O. C. Simonds, Chicago. 
Publisher's Notes, 
The Missouri State Horticultural So- 
ciety will hold its forty-fourth annual 
meeting at St. Joseph, Mo., December 3 
to s. Large displays have been ar- 
ranged, the railwaj's have granted a 
one and one-third fare for the round 
trip, and a large attendance is ex- 
pected. 
The forty-sixth annual meeting of 
the Illinois State Horticultural Society 
will be held in the agricultural building 
of the State University at Champaign, 
111., December lo to I 2 , 1901. The lib- 
eral premium list offered and a pro- 
gram of discussions by men prominent 
in their lines of work give promise of 
a large attendance and a profitable 
meeting. Special hotel and railroad 
rates are offered, and further informa- 
tion can be had from the secretary, L. 
R. Bryant, Princeton, 111 . The three 
district societies will hold their annual 
meetings as follows: The Central So- 
ciety, at Quincy, Nov. 20th and 21st, J. 
C. Blair, secretary, Urbana, 111 .; the 
Southern Society, at Carbondale, Nov. 
26th and 27th, E. G. Mendenhall, sec- 
retary, Kinmundy, 111. ; the Northern 
Society, at Dixon, Dec. 4th and Sth, 
Jacob Friend, secretary, Nekoma, 111. 
Frederick M. Ayers, for several years 
superintendent of Lake View Ceme- 
tery, Ithaca, N. Y., has resigned and 
will be succeeded by R. McDougall. 
Mr. J. Clyde Power, superintendent of 
parks, Indianapolis, Ind., has recently 
returned from Philadelphia, where he 
purchased from' the Andorra Nurseries 
at Chestnut Hill about 3,400 young trees 
for planting in the Indianapolis parks. 
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A Quarter century of Cremation in 
North America, by John Storer Cobb, 
Hon. Pres. New England Cremation 
Society. Boston : Knight & Millet, 1901. 
A history of cremation in the United 
States and Canada must be classed as 
a new book on a new subject, since the 
history of that method of disposing of 
the dead begins in this country with 
1876, and in Canada with 1900. The first 
crematory in this country was estab- 
lished at Washington, Pa., and in 1900 
their number had grown to twenty-six, 
located in fourteen different states. The 
first crematory at a cemetery was in 
Los Angeles, Cal., in 1887, and 
the author’s list of public crematoria 
in the back of the book shows eleven 
cemeteries that are now maintaining 
such institutions. The total number of 
incinerations in the sixteen years of 
cremation is 13,281, and the annual 
num'ber shows a- steady increase from 
25 in 1876 to 2,414 in 1900. These and 
many other facts are brought out in Mr. 
Cobb’s volume, which, in addition 
to being a compact and readable history 
of cremation in America, contains a 
bibliography, a directory of crematoria 
and their officers, and a number of 
tables that combine to make it a com- 
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West Laurel Hill Cemetery, Phila- 
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