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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, 
etc, 
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, 
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ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN CEME- 
tery Superintendents : President, FranU En- 
rich, “VV^oodward Lawn'% Detroit. Mich.; 
Vice President, H. Wilson Ross, ‘*Ne\vton’% 
Newton Center, Mass; Secretary and Treas- 
urer, J. H. Morton, "‘City Cemeteries’’, Boston, 
Mass. 
The Sixteenth Annual Convention will be 
held at Boston, Mass., Auj/ust 10, 1902. 
THE AMERICAN PARK AND OUT-DOOR 
Art Association: President, E. J. Parker, 
Quincy, 111.; Secretary, Waireii H. Maii- 
tiingr* Tremont Building’, Boston, Mass.; 
Treasurer. O. C. Sinionds, Chicag’o. 
Sixth Annual Meetinif. Boston, Aug’usi 5 7. 
1902. 
Publisher's Notes, 
Governor Van Sant, of ^Minnesota, 
has reappointed Geo, H, Hazzard, of 
St, Paul, as Minnesota Commissioner 
of the Inter-State Park in the Dalles 
of the St. Croix. Mr. Hazzard was the 
originator cf the idea of the states of 
\^hsconsin and Minnesota acquiring the 
Dalles for park purposes, and was the 
working member of the commission to 
acquire the land. 
^ BOOKS, REPORTS, ETC., RECEIVED. ^ 
Cyclopedia of American Horticulture, 
comprising suggestions for cultivation 
of horticultural plants, descriptions of 
the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers 
and ornamental plants sold in the 
United States and Canada, together 
with geographical and biographical 
sketches, by L. H. Bailey, Professor of 
Horticulture in Cornell University, as- 
sisted by Wilhelm Miller, Phd., associ- 
ate editor, and many expert cultivators 
and botanists: illustrated with over 
2,000 original engravings: in four vol- 
umes; price $20; volume IV. R-Z; the 
Macmillan Company, New York, 1902. 
The appearance of the last volume of 
Professor Bailey’s Cyclopedia marks an 
epoch in the history of American hor- 
ticulture. and it is safe to say that the 
plan and scope of the work, and the 
zeal and genius with which they have 
been carried out. have produced a work 
wlicse practical value to workers in 
the field of horticulture has never been 
equalled. That the book has done its 
whole duty as near as it could be done 
as a record of contemporary American 
horticulture, no one can doubt who has 
examined the book and the plan on 
which it was projected as told in the 
editor’s preface to the fourth volume. 
It is his hope that the work may never 
be revised, and that subsequent pro- 
gress may be recorded in supplemental 
volumes to be issued each year with a 
cumulative index. The detailed system 
of the work has been reviewed in 
Park and Cemetery in connection with 
previous volumes, and it only remains 
to consider volume IV and to give 
some general facts in connection with 
the accomplishing of the work. That 
the task has lieen achieved with dis- 
patch is shown by the dates of publi- 
cation of the different volumes which 
are as follows: Volume i, February 14, 
looc; volume II, July 18, 1900: volume 
III, April 23. 1901; volume IV, Feb- 
ruary 26. 1902. The total number of 
entries or articles, including cross ref- 
eiences, is 4.357. embracing descriptions 
of 2,255 genera. The number of spe- 
cies fully described is 8,793, and their 
different varieties number 3.635. The 
total number of Latin binomial and tri- 
nomial plant names accounted for is 
approximated as 24.434. and some of 
the other statistics are as follows : syn- 
onyms. 7,482; species in supplementary 
lists. 4,524; species native to North 
America north of Mexico, 2.419. 'I'he 
last volume contains the customary 
long list of well-known writers, a few 
of whose contributions on subjects of 
peculiar interest to readers of Park and 
Cemetery may he mentioned. A sub- 
ject of modern and timely importance 
by reason of its recent rapid growth, 
and which serves to show the broad 
field covered by the cyclopedia is an 
extended article on Railroad Garden- 
ing, by Frances Copley Seavey. Th.e 
contribution emphasizes the superiority 
of the natural style of jilanting over 
the frail and ornamental bedding, and 
shows an encouraging and intelligent 
growth in the increasing use of hardy 
trees, shrubs, and vines, instead of 
showy annuals. It is illustrated with 
a ni'mher of diagrams showing plant- 
ing plans for station grounds, and a 
large half-tone plate giving six I'iews 
of successful railroad gardening on the 
Boston & Albany Railway. The contri- 
bution on Transplanting Large Trees, 
by Henry Hicks and William A. Peter- 
son. gives the practical methods em- 
bodied in the experience of those two 
experts, and is illustrated with a half- 
tone plate , showing the four views re- 
cently given in a series of articles on 
the same subject in these columns, and 
a number of other diagrams, showing 
details of operation. Rock Gardens, 
treated by Warren H. Manning and 
Edward J. Canning, is one of the most 
valuable of the contributions to volume 
IV, illustrating many different arrange- 
ments of rockeries, and describing in 
detail successful methods and the best 
materials for planting. A few of the 
other articles which space permits ns 
to merely mention are ; Rose, by 
Ernest Braimton, Jackson Dawson, and 
Alfred Rehder; Village Improvement, 
by Jessie M. Good; Romneya, by Wil- 
liam Falconer; Rhododendron, by J. 
Woodward Maiming; Trees, by Alfred 
Rehder, and others; Shrubbery, by O. 
C. Simonds; Yucca, by William Tre- 
lease. 
Prize Gardening. The experience of 
the prize winners in the American Agri- 
culturist Garden contest. ' Illustrated 
from original photographs and draw- 
ings. Compiled by G. Burnap Fiske; 
322 pages: New York: The Orange 
Judd Co.; price, postpaid. $1. This 
book summarizes the experiences of 
5,000 gardeners throughout the country 
who kept a daily record of their meth- 
ods and results for an entire season in 
competition for a series of prizes ag- 
gregating $2,500. The chapters tell the 
story of the contest, describe the prize 
gardener's methods. gardening for 
profit, good farm gardens, the home 
acre, town and city gardens, experi- 
mental gardening, methods under glass, 
success with specialties, prize flowers 
and fruits, lessons from winners, gar- 
den symposium, success in town or 
city, fertilized gardens, gardening by 
women, hoys and girls, irrigation, se- 
crets. The experiences given are al- 
most all of vegetable and market gar- 
dening for profit, and are recorded in 
a detailed and interesting manner. A 
chapter on Prize Flowers and Fruit 
touches on the decorative side of gar- 
dening. 
Forty-fourth annual report of the 
State Horticultural Society of Mis- 
souri. Being Reports of Meetings at 
New Haven, June 4, 5. and 6, and at 
St. Joseph. December 3, 4, and 5, 1901. 
reports of officers, and papers read at 
the two meetings. A comprehensive 
report of 407 pages, containing many 
papers of value in many branches of 
liorticulture. Some of those of partic- 
ular interest to those interested in or- 
namental horticulture are the follow- 
ing: Ornamentation of Home Grounds, 
by Ruth Jackson: Evergreen and Its 
Usefulness, by F. C. Meyer; Flower- 
ing Bulbs, by Mrs. T. Lee Adams: City 
Forestry, by L. A. Goodman; The For- 
