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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
Park and Cemetery 
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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, 
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, 
324 Dearborn St., CHICAGO. 
Eastern Office ; 
1538 Am.Tract Society Bldg., New York. 
Subscription $1.00 a Year in Advance. 
Foreign Snbscription $1.50. 
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., August 19, 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. 
Sixth Annual Meeting, Boston, August S-7, 
1902. 
Publisher's Notes, 
The Civic League, an organization of 
children of the Adams School, Minne- 
apolis, was recently addressed in mass- 
meeting by Mr. Charles M. Coring. The 
League was formed in February for the 
primary purpose of beautifying the 
school grounds, and now has a member- 
ship of 1,100, and is gradually extend- 
ing the scope of its work. Mr. Coring 
spoke enthusiastically of the League’s 
work and of the wisdom of beginning 
with the children in movements for the 
oromotion of public beauty. His talk 
was accompanied by stereopticon views 
showing the results of intelligent im- 
provement work in Europe and America. 
At a recent meeting of the executive 
committee of the Society of American 
Florists and Ornamental Horticultur- 
ists to discuss plans for the coming con- 
vention of the Society at Asheville, 
N. C., Augu.st 17 to 23, the Treasurer’s 
report showed a larger balance than at 
any time in the Society’s history, the 
amount on hand in the general fund 
being $2,111.11, and in the permanent 
fund $1,574.68. The Secretary was in- 
structed to send a circular letter to bulb 
growers throughout the country invit- 
ing them to exhibit at the convention. 
Free space will be given for one dozen 
of each variety, the bulbs to become the 
property of the Society, to be used for 
testing as to their forcing qualities. The 
committee on distribution of medals 
recommended the continuance of the 
awarding of medals through various 
floricultural organizations, and in addi- 
tion favored the awarding of one silver 
and one bronze medal for new and mer- 
itorious plants or flowers of American 
origin shown at a regular public exhibi- 
tion. 
In the recently published table of 
Cemetery Statistics compiled by Mr. 
Frank Eurich, the address of Oakdale 
Cemetery should appear as Wilmington, 
N. C., instead of Wilmington, Del., as 
printed. 
We have received from Mr. Geo. B. 
Faxon, Secretary, Treasurer and Mana- 
ger of Forest Hill Cemetery, Memphis, 
Tenn., a copy of the Memphis Commer- 
cial-Appeal containing an account of a 
unique monument erected in that ceme- 
tery by Col. William Robert Moore be- 
fore his death. It consists of a rock- 
faced shaft of Vermont granite 15 feet 
high, surmounted by a bronze statue of 
Col. Moore. Beside it stands a sarco- 
phagus surmounted by a statue of his 
wife, symbolized as Faith. The memo- 
rial cost $15,000. 
The Bomg^rdner Lowering Device 
Co. have recently added an improvement 
to their device in the form of a sliding 
loop to be placed on the webbing, so 
that the upper web can be left slack 
enough to set the casket perfectly level, 
while the lower one is taken out en- 
tirely. Former customers, who have 
purchased the device of this company 
without this improvement will be sup- 
plied with it free of charge on applica- 
tion to the Bomgardner Lowering De- 
vice Co., 16 High St., Cleveland, Ohio. 
Mr. H. J. Diering, for 37 years super- 
intendent of Woodlawn Cemetery, New 
York City, has resigned his post to re- 
tire from active work. He will be suc- 
ceeded by his son, Fred R. Dieting, for- 
merly his assistant. 
A Bulletin of Practical Suggestions on 
Outdoor Art, together with an outline 
of the proceedings of the Milwaukee 
Convention of last year ; volume V, part 
II, of the publications of the American 
Park and Outdoor Art Association. Con- 
tains the addresses of the President, the 
retiring President of last year, and many 
valuable suggestions for outdoor im- 
provements, illustrated by half-tone 
views, showing successful examples of 
decorative planting, and the before and 
after aspects of school and home 
grounds, together with diagrams illus- 
trating plans in conformity with the sug- 
gestions offered. Some of the subjects 
treated under the “Practical Sugges- 
tions” are as follows: The Railroad Sta- 
tion, The School Garden, Prizes for 
School Children, Instruction in Element- 
ary Gardening, Planning and Planting 
Home Grounds, The Cemetery, The 
Billboard Nuisance, Outdoor Art in the 
Prairie States, Outdoor Gymnasia, The 
Open-Space Movement in England, The 
Work of the Women’s Auxiliary, The 
American Park and Outdoor Art Asso- 
ciation’s Exhibit at Turin, Italy, and In 
the Interests of General Outdoor Im- 
provement. 
Tree Planting in St. Louis; report of 
the tree planting committee of the Engel- 
mann Botanical Club of St. Louis. The 
tree planting committee of the Engel- 
mann Botanical Club has for several 
years collected information on tree plant- 
ing both in this country and in Europe, 
and has now issued this little book of 
specific directions for the purpose of 
stimulating active work in the beautify- 
ing of St. Louis, but the matter con- 
tained in it is of such a practical nature 
as to be of use to tree planters any- 
where. The committee suggests the 
formation of clubs on each block, to see 
to the planting and care of trees, shrubs 
and flowers, and gives detailed direc- 
tions as to how to plant and how to 
combat injurious influences. The book 
is illustrated with half-tone views, show- 
ing good and bad e.xamples, and with 
drawings illustrating methods of pro- 
cedure. The following are some of the 
subjects treated of in the different sec- 
tions : When to Prune, How to Prune, 
Care of Mounds, Soil Conditions, Gas, 
Drought, Smoke, What Trees to Plant, 
When to Plant, Position of Trees on 
Sidewalks, How to Plant a Tree, Sub- 
sequent Treatment, Spraying, Planting 
of Yards and Grounds, Window Gar- 
dens, Vacant Lots, etc. The titles of 
some of the illustrations are suggestive 
of valuable information, such as the fol- 
lowing: A Poorly Planted Yard, A 
Well-planted Yard. Staking a Tree, A 
Tree Poorly Planted, A Tree Well 
Planted, How to Save a Tree When the 
Grade is Changed, Correct and Incor- 
rect Pruning, How to Prune a Young 
Tree, etc. The trees recommended as 
of surest growth are the sycamore, silver 
maple, and Carolina poplar, and the 
sweet gum, white birch, tulip tree, and 
ash are classified as good, but more 
difficult to grow. The tree-planting 
committee is composed as follows : Dr. 
John Green. H. C. Irish, Missouri 
Botanical Garden ; W. J. Stevens : and 
Herman von Schrenk, of the Shaw 
School of Botany. 
Annual Report of the Columbus Hor- 
ticultural Society, Columbus, Ohio, for 
the year 1901, comprising the Constitu- 
tion of the Society, List of Members, 
and Officers, proceedings of meetings, 
papers and discussions. Some of the 
