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OFFICE BUILDING AND SHELTER HOUSE, FOREST HOME CEMETERY, CHICAGO. 
Cemetery Office Buildings, CHicago 
The office building and rest cottage shown in the 
illustration were recently erected at Forest Home 
Cemetery, Chicago. They combine office buildings, 
waiting rooms and lavatories, and are well arranged 
and fitted with modern equipments. 
The exterior construction is of Bedford buff stone, 
with tile roofs, and the interiors are trimmed in oak, 
the lavatories being fitted with marble Mosaic floors 
and plate glass windows constitute the other interior 
construction. Conservatories adjoin the office, and a 
steam heating plant is provided. The cost of the struc- 
tures was about $25,000. 
Forest Home embraces about 200 acres of territor}" 
on both sides of the Desplaines river on the outskirts 
of Chicago, and is conducted entirely on the lawn plan. 
The cemetery has a well equipped pumping plant, con- 
sisting of a gasoline engine and a 1,000-barrel tank 
mounted on a 50-foot tower. Considerable concrete 
and brick work is used. The main drive one and a 
half miles long, is paved with brick and supplied 
with a cement gutter and curb. In the conserva- 
tories the benches are l^uilt of galvanized iron and 
cement slabs, no wood being used except in the 
sash bars. Ten thousand cement grave and lot 
markers are in use in the cemeterv. 
BooKs and Current Literature 
Forest Trees and Forest Scenery. By G. Frederick 
Schwarz. The Grafton Press, New York. 1901. 
The growing interest in forestry and forest trees 
lends timely force to this work, which takes as its 
leading object the appreciation of the esthetic value of 
some of our commonest forest trees. The author 
divides the trees into the Broadleaf class and the 
Cone-bearers, gives descriptions, and locates geo- 
graphically many of the better known forest trees. 
The descriptions are clear and accurate and given 
with the sympathetic appreciation of the true forest 
lover. Especial attention is devoted to the decorative 
and artistic value of the trees, and the excellent half- 
tone illustrations supplement the descriptions in re- 
vealing new beauties in many of our old friends of 
the forest. Some of the specimens illustrated are; 
The oak, dogwood, maple, tulip tree, several different 
pines, including the bull pine in its California home, 
the fir, the birch, etc. The chapter on forest adorn- 
ment treats of shrubbery, vines and other growths 
that give landscape beauty to the woods. 
Old-Time Gardens, newly set forth by Alice Morse 
Earle ; a book of the sweet o’ the year. The Mac- 
millan Company, New York. Price, $2.50 net. 
This charming volume of garden lore is ample evi- 
dence that the old-fashioned garden, with its quaint 
historical setting, has not lost its beauty and at- 
tractiveness. In a free and rambling fashion the 
writer takes us to many of the historical landmarks 
of the country, and shows us, with the aid of many 
excellent photographs, the flowery nooks and corners 
that were the delight of our forefathers and are still 
objects of beauty. Washington’s garden at Mount 
Vernon ; the garden of Abigail Adams at Quincy, 
Mass., and Kenmore, the home of Betty Washington 
Lewis, at Eredericksburg, Va., are among the old 
colonial gardens illustrated and described. A chap- 
ter is devoted to sun dials, of which the writer tells us 
there are over 200 in this country, and some of the 
other particularly suggestive chapters are : Colonial 
Garden Making, Eront Dooryards, Box Edgings, Old 
Elower Eavorites, Gardens of the Poets, The Charm 
of Color, The Blue Elower Border, Garden 
Boundaries, and a Moonlight Garden. 
