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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, 
Eastern Office ; 
1538 Am,Tract Society Bldg., New York. 
Subscription Sl.OO a Year in Advance. 
Foreign Subscription S' 1.50. 
Pubiished Monthly. 
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, Tremont Building, Boston, Mass.; 
Treasurer, O. C. Simonds, Chicago. 
Publisher's Notes, 
Assn, of Am. Cemetery Supts. 
The printing of the report of the 
Pittsburg convention has been unavoid- 
ably delayed by reason of correspond- 
ence between members of the advisory 
committee and the treasurer relative to 
the extra expense involved in printing 
two of the addresses. The reports will 
be sent out this month and the tabulated 
statistics compiled by Mr. Enrich will 
be issued separately and be mailed in 
January, 1902. 
H. Wilson Ross, Secy. 
The twelfth annual Shaw banquet giv- 
en by ihe Missouri Botanical Garden to 
Gardeners, Florists and Nurserymen, 
was held at the Mercantile Club, St. 
Louis, December 7, 1901. The princi- 
pal subject of discussion was Street 
Planting. 
Ihe Ohio State Horticultural Society 
held its thirty-fifth annual meeting De- 
cember 4, 5 and 6, at Lancaster, O. 
.Among the papers read were the follow- 
ing: "How Shall We Combat the Cod- 
dling Moth?’’ and "The Timber Trees 
of Ohio,” by Prof. W. R. Lazenby, and 
"Civic Improvement,” by Mathew 
Crawford. 
The Iowa Park and Forestry Associ- 
ation held its first annual meeting at 
Des Moines, la., December 10, at which 
interesting papers were read. The 
following officers were elected : Presi- 
dent, T. H. MacBride. State Univer- 
sity, Iowa City: Vice-President, Wes- 
ley Greene, Davenport: Secretary, L. 
H. Pamniel, Ames; Treasurer, Silas 
Wilson, -Atlantic. The objects of the 
association are: to create an interest in 
and to encourage the establishment of 
parks, the beautifying of our cities and 
cemeteries, the i)lanting of trees in 
country homes for aesthetic purposes 
as well as to sujiply timber for com- 
merce, tlie proper utilization of our re- 
maining timber, and to assist in the in- 
auguration of rational forestry methods. 
-At a recent monthly meeting of the 
New Jersey Floricultural Society at Or- 
ange. N. J.. a loan exhibition of land- 
scape engravings was held embracing 
examples of the work of nearly all of 
English school of engravers of the 
eighteenth century. 
The new Horticultural Hall was dedi- 
cated by the Massachusetts Horticultu- 
ral Society in November. The e.xercises 
included speeches by representatives of 
the State and Federal governments and 
officers of the Society. The Massachu- 
setts society was chartered in 1829, and 
the history of its organization and work 
formed the subject of an interesting ad- 
dress by General Francis H. -Appleton, 
one of its former presidents. 
Major Richard B. Hill, who has for 
the past six years been superintendent 
of the National Cemetery at Fredericks- 
burg. Va., has been transferred to the 
National Cemetery at Alound City, 111 . 
Capt. Dillard, who has been in charge 
at Mound City, will succeed Maj. Hill. 
Obituary. 
Mr. William Gray Storrs, Vice-Presi- 
dent and General Manager of the Storrs 
& Harrison Co., Painesville, Ohio, died 
at his home in that city October 22, as 
the result of a strain received from lift- 
ing. He was born in Lapier, N. Ah. in 
1840. and came to Painesville in 1854, 
where his father founded the well- 
known Storrs & Harrison Nursery. He 
served with credit during the entire 
period of the Civil War, and was in 
many of the important engagements of 
that conflict. 
His early education was received in 
Painesville, and he was from his youth 
associated with the building up of the 
firm which bears his name. He was 
widely known as one of the foremost 
nurserymen in the country, and highly 
esteemed as a citizen of Ohio. 
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The Relation of Sparrows to -Agricul- 
ture, by Sylvester 1 ), Judd, Ph. D.. -As- 
sistant, Biological Survey. Bulletin No. 
15. U. S. Department of Agriculture. 
Government Printing Office, 1901. I'he 
sparrow, as a notorious seed-eater, has 
long been the subject of much discus- 
sion, and it is the object of this report 
to determine the precise nature of his 
food and its effect on agriculture and 
plant life. It is based on extended field 
observations and laboratory examina- 
tions of the stomachs of 4.273 sparrows. 
The tendency of Dr. Judd’s investiga- 
tions is to dissipate the popular impres- 
sion that all sparrows are dangerous to 
vegetable life by showing that the native 
species feed on seeds of no-xious weeds, 
and are of great value as weed destroy- 
ers. It is the English sparrow, alone, 
the writer holds, who is an enemy to 
plant life, while more than 27 varieties 
of the American sparrow are to be 
characterized as valuable allies of the 
farmer and the planter. The report is 
thorough and is emhellished with many 
illustrations and diagrams showing the 
character of the food .and tJie propor- 
tions of different articles consumed by 
various types of sparrows. As a prac- 
tical investigation of a practical ques- 
tion it is of much value to those who 
want to know the status of the sparrow. 
Practical Forestry in the South ern 
-Appalachians, by Overton \V. Price, Di- 
vision of Forestry; a reprint from the 
A ear Book of the Department of Agri- 
culture for 1900. The bill to come be- 
fore the present congress for the estab- 
lishment of a forest reserve of about 
2.000,000 acres in this territory makes 
this report of timely interest. -A gen- 
eral description of the region, its forest 
types, the different systems of lumber- 
ing, the forest fires, and suggestions for 
management, are the different divisions 
of the discussion, which takes as its 
text the need and value of .systematic 
and conservative forest management. 
Excellent half-tone illustrations. 
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