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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, 
DISCUSSIONS of subjects pertinent to these 
columns by persons practically acquainted with 
them, are especially desired. 
ANNUAL REPOP»TS 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 i 
1538 Am.Tract Society Bldg., New York, 
Subscription Sil.OO a Year in Advance. 
Foreign Subscription $1.50. 
Published Monthiy. 
ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN CEME- 
tery Superintendents : President, Frank En- 
rich, “Woodlawn", 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.; Secretarv, Warren H. Man- 
ning, Tremont Building, Boston, Mass.; 
Treasurer, O. C. Siraonds, Chicago. 
Sixth Annual Meeting. Boston, August 5-7, 
1902. 
Publisher's Notes, 
'J'he summer meeting of the Missouri 
State Horticultural Society was held at 
Eldon, Mo., June lO, ii and I 2 . and 
many papers of interest read. Half of 
the program Thursday, June I 2 , was 
devoted to spraying, the various phases 
of which were discussed by A. V. Scher- 
merhorn, W. D. Maxwell, F. B. Mum- 
ford, and M. Butterfield. Prof. H. C. 
Irish, of the Missouri Botanical Garden 
at St. Louis, contributed a valuable paper 
on Beautiful Shr'ubs and Herbaceous 
Plants. 
A convention of the mayors of all the 
principal cities and towns of Georgia is 
to be held in Atlanta some time this 
summer on a date not yet decided upon. 
Mayor Mims of Atlanta is arranging for 
the convention, and is at present confer- 
ring with mayors of the other cities. A 
wide variety of subjects including every 
liranch of municipal interest and civic 
improvement will be discussed. One of 
the sulijects scheduled for discussion 
is “Parks and Tree Planting.” The busi- 
ness sessions will be held in the City 
Hall or in one of the prominent hotels, 
and the visitors will he entertained by 
the city. 
James Tucker, for 25 years superin- 
tendent of St. Agnes Cemetery, Syra- 
cuse, N. Y., died June i, after an illness 
of seven weeks. Mr. Tucker was born 
in Ireland in 1838 and came to this coun- 
try in 1846. He first settled in Canada, 
but soon after came to New York and 
was for a time keeper at the Auburn 
State Prison. He served in the navy 
throughout the Civil War, and was on 
the battleship Kearsarge when she sunk 
the Alabama. He was 64 years old at 
his death, and leaves a widow and two 
sons. 
The rapid growth of the business of 
Thomas Meehan & Sons has made it ne- 
cessary to establish a complete office at 
their Dreshertown, Pa., nurseries. This 
will be under the direct charge of Thom- 
as B. Meehan, who will devote his entjre 
energies to increasing the wholesale 
branch of the business. The innovation 
will be made July ist, and after that date 
all wholesale business will be transacted 
at Dreshertown. At that place the firm 
owns 200 acres of land specially adapted 
for growing high grade hardy orna- 
mentals. 
Bulletins Nos. 71 and 72, University of 
Illinois Agricultural Experiment Station, 
Lirbana, 111 . Experiments with Insecti- 
cides for the San Jose Scale, by S. A. 
Forbes, State Entomologist. The exper- 
iments described in these two bulletins 
were primarily for the purpose of test- 
ing the efficiency of the lime, salt and 
sulphur mixtures used in California and 
Oregon in the variable climate of Illi- 
nois with the view of ascertaining the 
possibility of the successful use of these 
compounds farther East where they are 
reported to have been failures owing to 
the frequent occurrence of rains soon 
after the insecticide had been applied. 
The effect of rains was experimentally 
ascertained by heavily spraying the trees 
with water at selected intervals after 
treatment with the wash, and making 
careful count of the dead and living 
scales in each case. The general aver- 
age result of a single spraying of twenty- 
trees with lime, sulphur and salt was 
the destruction of 90.6 per cent of the 
scales when no water was applied within 
five days, and 86 per cent when water 
was used. The corresponding result of 
the application of lime, sulphur and blue 
vitriol to fifteen trees was the destruc- 
tion of 93 per cent of the scales without 
water, and 92.2 per cent when water was 
applied. Detailed results of the experi- 
ments, accompanied by tables, are given 
in the bulletins, and the writer says that 
there is nothing to indicate that these 
mixtures are less effective in Illinois 
than on the Pacific Coast, and that they 
are more harmless and cheaper than the 
well-known whale-oil soap or kerosene 
emulsion remedies. The California wash 
was prepared as follow'S : Fifteen pounds 
of stone lime were slaked in a little very 
hot water, fifteen pounds of ground sul- 
phur being slowly poured in during the 
slaking process with constant stirring of 
the mixture. This was then boiled for 
an hour, after which fifteen pounds of 
salt was added and the boiling continued 
for fifteen minutes longer. The whole 
was then poured into a barrel through a 
strainer, and enough boiling water added 
to make fifty gallons. In the prepara- 
tion of the Oregon wash, a pound and 
a quarter of blue vitriol was used in- 
stead of the salt, the crystals of the blue 
vitriol being dissolved in hot water and 
the solution added slowly to the slak- 
ing lime. 
The Bowker Insecticide Co., 43 Chat- 
ham St., Boston, have issued a Hand- 
book of Injurious Insects and How to 
Destroy Them, which will be sent on ap- 
plication, and will be of value to those 
who are troubled with the codling moth, 
elm leaf beetle and other pests. Bow- 
ker’s Disparene, which is advertised on 
another page, has been much used 
against these insects by New England 
park superintendents and horticulturists 
generally. 
The Blue Book of the Woodlawn Im- 
provement Club, of Chicago, and Direct- 
ory of Woodlawn for 1902. Giving an 
historical account of the association, its 
methods of organization and operation, 
rules, regulations and by-laws, list of 
officers, business and residence direct- 
ories, and general information concern- 
ing Woodlawn. 
Report of the Board of Park Commis- 
sioners of Wilmington, Del., for 1901. 
Handsomely illustrated with half-tone 
views of park scenery. 
Maine Agricultural Experiment Sta- 
tion, Orono. Me. Bulletin No. 82, Or- 
chard Notes. 
University of Illinois, Agricultural 
Experiment Station. Bulletin No. 70, 
Canker on Apple Trees. 
Flatch Experiment Station of the Mas- 
sachusetts Agricultural College, Am- 
herst, Mass. Bulletin No. 79, Growing 
China Asters. 
Montana Agricultural Experiment 
Station, Bozeman, Mont. ; Bulletin No. 
33, “Sugar Beets in Montana.” 
University of Illinois, Agricultural 
Experiment Station, Urbana, 111 . Bul- 
letin No. 66, Individual Differences in 
Dairy Cows, and No. 67, Apple Scab. 
