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Park and Cemetery 
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LANDSCAPE GARDENING 
ESTABLISHED 1891). 
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 effecls, 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 Si. 00 a Year in Advance. 
Foreign Subscription SI. 50. 
Published Monthly. 
ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN CEME- 
tery Superintendents : President, Frank En- 
rich, “Woodward Lawn”, Detroit. Micb.; 
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 Massachusetts Horticultural So- 
ciety is conducting a series of lectures 
in Horticultural Hall, Boston, on a 
wide range of topics pertaining to hor- 
ticultural and outdoor art. Those de- 
livered during January and February 
were as follows: History and Habits 
of the Brown-Tail Moth — How to 
Make and Apply Insecticides, by A. H. 
Kirkland, M. S. ; The Horticultural 
Possibilities of New England, by Prof. 
F. W. Rane; The Business End of 
Horticulture, by Patrick O’Mara ; The 
Methods and Results of Soil Steriliza- 
tion, by Prof. G. E. Stone; The Fungus 
Diseases of Fruits, by Prof. M. B. 
Waite, Department of Agriculture. The 
following are to be given during the 
month of March : March 8, The In- 
fluence of American Expositions on the 
Outdoor Arts, by Warren H. Man- 
ning; March 15, The Evolution of Veg- 
etable Culture During the Last Forty 
Years, by Warren W. Rawson; March 
22, Birds Useful to Agriculture, by E. 
H. Forbush ; March 29, Some Famous 
Gardens of the World, by Miss Helena 
T. Goessmann. The Society will hold 
six exhibitions during the year, and has 
appropriated $8,075 for prizes and 
gratuities, distributed as follows : For 
plants, $2,000; for flowers, $2,500; for 
native plans, $175; for fruits, $1,700; 
for vegetables, $1,200; for gardens, 
greenhouses, etc., $500. The spring ex- 
hibition will be held in Horticultural 
Hall, March 19 to 23, inclusive. 
The Eastern New York Horticultural 
Society held its sixth annual meeting 
February 12 and 13 at the American 
Institute, New York City, and the ex- 
hibit of flowers, fruits and vegetables 
was held on the same dates. The meet- 
ings were devoted to the transaction of 
official business and the reading and 
discussion of a number of interesting 
papers, among which were ; 'Fhe San 
Jose Scale, by Prof. W. G. Johnson, 
Associate Editor American Agricul- 
turist; Insect Control, by Prof. M. V. 
Slingerland, of Cornell University, and 
addresses by the directors of a number 
of prominent experiment stations. The 
officers of the association are: Presi- 
dent, Geo. T. Powell, Briarcliff Manor, 
N. Y. ; vice-president, W. F. Taber. 
Poughkeepsie ; secretary-treasurer, Chas. 
H. Royce, Rhinecliff, N. Y. 
The Ottawa Horticultural Society, at 
its recent annual meeting, reported a 
total of 213 members as against 186 in 
1900, and showed gratifying progress 
in educational work, which is the chief 
object of the society. Monthly exhi- 
bitions were held during the summer 
and autumn, and much improvement 
has resulted to the city in the way of 
better-kept lawns, tasty flowerbeds and 
well-cultivated gardens. The society 
has elected the following officers : Pres- 
ident, R. B. Whyte ; first vice-president. 
John Graham; second vice-president, 
P. G. Keyes. 
^ BOOKS, REPORTS, ETC., RECEIVED. ^ 
Report of the Forester for 1901, by 
Gifford Pinchot ; government printing 
office, Washington, D. C. The report 
of the work of the Division of Forestry 
for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1901, 
and an outline of the plans of the new 
Bureau for the current year give's 
promise that the increased demand for 
the services of this department will tax 
to the utmost its enlarged resources. 
The Bureau has been called upon to 
give practical assistance and advice in 
the management of National, State and 
private forests, embracing an area of 
about 50,000,000 acres, a territory larger 
than the state of Nebraska. There were 
thirty-eight applications from private 
owners of forest lands aggregating 
288,555 acres, and the total area of pri- 
vate lands for which assistance in man- 
agement has been asked since 1898 is 
2,808,648 acres. The technical work 
pertaining to the treatment of the Na- 
tional forest reserves, comprising an 
area of 46,828,449 acres, accomplished 
by the Section of Working Plans, in- 
cluded field work in the Black Hills 
Forest Reserve, the Prescott, Big 
Horn and Priest River reserves, the 
preparation of working plans for prac- 
tical forestry in the New York State 
Forest Preserve, and a study of the 
region of the proposed Appalachian 
Forest Reserve. Besides these detailed 
studies were made of a number of ini- 
jiortant trees, such as the western yel- 
low, or liull pine, in the Black Hills 
region; the redwood, red fir, western 
hemlock, the big tree groves in Califor- 
nia. and monographic studies by the 
late Dr. Charles Mohr on the red cedar, 
white cedar, and bald cypress. A no- 
table development in the Section of 
Tree Planting was shown in the 148 
applications for assistance in forest 
planting, and detailed plans were pre- 
pared for 5,785 acres. Extensive forest 
measurement.^ will be made in the 
planted woodlands in New England and 
the Eastern States during the present 
year, and additional facts collected in 
the plantations already studied in the 
Middle West. The total appropriation 
for the Division was $88,520, which 
was expended in part as follows : 
Working plans, $29,088.73; special in- 
vestigations. $21,616.73; tree planting, 
$9,523.61 ; office work, $19,474.86. 
Important Details of Spraying; bulle- 
tin No. 68, University of Illinois Agri- 
cultural Experiment Station, Urbana,. 
111 . ; by Arnold V. Stubenrauch, M. S. A. 
The timeliness of anything that per- 
tains to spraying, and the fact that it 
seeks to supply a deficiency in the lit- 
erature of spraying, make this bulletin 
of present and practical value. In 
speaking of the many bulletins and' 
other publications that have appeared 
within the past ten years the writer 
says: “Nearly all of them treated the 
subject from the standpoint of the 
kinds of mixtures to be used, some of 
the desirability of spraying at all, but 
very few of the little technical details 
of the operation which constitute the 
foundation principles, and which go so 
far to make successful results possible.”' 
It is to supply this lack that Bulletin 
68 was designed, and all of the exact- 
ing details of the process, from the 
selection of apparatus and materials- 
through the mixing and application of 
the spray, are treated of in a thorough 
and practical manner. The work is il- 
lustrated with diagrams and photo- 
graphic plates showing methods of 
preparation, and the effects of goo<f 
and bad spraying, and will be a val- 
uable working guide to all sprayers. 
