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PARK AND CE-M EATERY. 
ParK Stiperintendents Meet. 
The fifth annual meeting of the New England As- 
sociation of Park Superintendents; held at the Quincy 
House, Boston, Mass., Jitne 20 and 21, was one of 
the best in the history of that active and useful associa- 
tion. 
The first day’s session was given over to a ban- 
c|uet, election of officers, and addresses of both social 
and professional interest. Mr. James Draper, of 
Worcester, was elected toast-master, and Mr. J. A. 
Pettigrew, of Boston, delivered the address of wel- 
come to the visiting superintendents, which was re- 
sponded to on behalf of the association by Mr. T. W. 
Cook, of New Bedford, Mass. Mr. George H. Cox, of 
Cambridge, told briefly of park improvements in that 
city, and invited the association to visit Cambridge. 
Mr. W. S. Egerton responded for the association. 
Mr. G. A. Parker, of Hartford, the retiring secre- 
tary, was then given a pleasant surprise in the form of 
a gold watch and chain presented to him as a token of 
esteem from the members. Mr. Nathaniel Morton, of 
Plymouth, Mass., made the presentation in a clever 
speech, and Mr. Parker responded with much feel- 
ing, after which the members joined in singing, “He’s ,^ 
a Jolly Good Eellow.” 
Mr. J. H. Kirkland, of Boston, delivered an inter- 
esting and valuable stereopticon address on the insect 
pests that ravage- the shade trees in the parks, and 
was followed by -an illustrated address on the plant 
life of Hawaii, by Mr. J. K. M. L. Earquhar. 
The second day, Saturday, was occupied with a trip 
about the city under the guidance of Mr. Pettigrew. 
The party spent a day of thorough enjoyment, not- 
withstanding a slight drizzling rain, and visited the 
Charles hank, Cambridge Eield, Harvard Square, the 
Esplanade, Olmsted Park, -the Arboretum and Frank- 
lin Field, where lunch was served, and the afternoon 
spent in Franklin Park. 
Twelve new members were elected and the fol- 
lowing new officers ; 
President, Joseph D. Fitts, Providence, R. I. ; sec- 
retary, J. W. Duncan, Boston, Mass. ; treasurer, J. H. 
Hemingway, Worcester, Mass. ; vice-presidents, A. W. 
Smith, Portland, Me. ; W. H. Richardson, Concord, N. 
H. ; C. S. Anthony, Taunton, Mass.; Theodore Wirth, 
Hartford, Conn. ; J. S. Mies, IMontpelier, Vt. ; W. S. 
Egerton. Albanv, N. Y. 
THe Bronx Conservatories. 
The new public conservatories of tbe Bronx Bo- 
tanical Gardens, New York, the largest in America, 
are described as follows in the March issue of the 
Four Track Netvs: The range consists of fifteen 
separate compartments, grouped so as to form a court 
open to the southwest, where it is approached from a 
plaza on the main park driveway ; there are also path 
approaches from all directions, now in course of con- 
struction. About two-thirds of this range was com- 
pleted and opened to the public in the summer of 
1900; the remainder is just being finished by the Lord 
& Burnham Company, and will be ooened in the 
summer of 1902. The plant collections already in- 
stalled in these conservatories are of surpassing in- 
terest and beauty, illustrating some four thousand 
kinds of plants from tropical and warm temperate 
regions, including magnificent palms, choice orchids, 
ferns, and pitcher plants, bananas, aroids, bromeliads, 
cactuses, century plants (Agaves )and other succulents 
in immense variety, and other types too numerous to 
mention. 
The out-of-door, hardy plant collections are also 
most interesting' and extensive. The herbaceous gar- 
den is located in a beautiful natural valley about ten 
minutes’ walk east of the great glass houses. Here 
the herbaceous plants are grouped according to their 
relationships in plots, these plots being arranged in 
botanical sequence. This collection now includes 
about three thousand different species. 
The shrub collection (fruticetum) is installed on 
a broad plain, ten minutes’ walk to the north of the 
museum building. The shrubs are here arranged sim- 
ilarly to the herbs in the herbaceous garden, the plots 
being, however, much more distant from each other 
in order to allow for expansion by growth. 
North of the shrub collection, and occupying the 
northern end of the garden reservation are low mead- 
ows and marshes in which collections of bog plants 
are being brought together, among others, the collec- 
t’on of willows, many different kinds being already 
])lanted. 
The Bronx river runs through the entire length of 
the garden from north to south, and that portion of 
the garden reservation east of the river is devoted to 
the collection of deciduous trees (arboretum), and 
over two hundred kinds of trees have already been 
planted in this part of the grounds ; being yet small, 
they do not attract much attention, b at the tract is well 
supplied with large native trees of about fifty kinds ; 
the collection of evergreen, coniferous trees (pine- 
turn) will be located on the slopes around the great 
conservatories and, between them and the museum 
building, as soon as the extensive grading operations, 
now in progress, render their planting practicable; 
some have already been set out. 
