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PARK AND cb:me;te;ry 
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 suhjects pertinent to these 
columns by persons practically acquainted with 
them, are especially desired. 
ANNUAL REPORTS of Parka, 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 Sl.OO a Year in Advance. 
Foreign Subscription $1.50. 
Published Monthiy. 
ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN CEME- 
tery Superintendents : President, Frank Eu- 
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.; Secretary, Warren H. Man- 
ning. Tremont Building, Boston, Mass.; 
Treasurer. O. C. Simonds. Chicago. 
Sixth Annual Meeting, Boston, August 5-7, 
1902. 
Publisher's Notes. 
The Brooklyn Horticultural Society, 
composed of Brooklyn and Long Island 
florists, was recently organized, for the 
purpose of preparing for the coining 
meeting of the American Carnation So- 
ciety, to be held in that city in February, 
1903. Alex. Wallace, 2 Duane St., 
New York City, is secretary. 
One hundred dollars reward will be 
paid for information leading to the re- 
covery of three scrap books filled with 
clippings and other matter pertaining to 
the proposed Appalachian National For- 
est Reserve, which were left on the mail 
box in the National Hotel in Washing- 
ton, D. C. The books were wrapped 
separately and addressed to Dr. C. P. 
Ambler, Asheville, N. C. Information 
should be addressed to him or to Hon. 
J. M. Moody, National Hotel, Washing- 
ton, D. C.. 
Personal. 
Frank H. Nutter, landscape architect 
and engineer, of Minneapolis, Minn., is 
preparing plans for the Island Park at 
La Crosse, Wis., a gift from Mr. A. W. 
Pettibone, a wealthy manufacturer of 
that city. The park covers about 250 
acres, and is to be improved on an elab- 
orate scale at the expense of Mr. Petti- 
bone. Mr. Nutter has also been en- 
gaged to prepare a plan for the city of 
Red Wing, Minn., for improving the 
streets and public squares in the center 
of the city, including the depot surround- 
ings and public river banks. 
Alattrup Jensen, formerly superinten- 
dent and secretary of Westwood ceme- 
tery, Oberlin, O., is now engaged in 
landscape gardening at San Jose, Cal. 
Mr. Charles Nichols, the senior mem- 
ber of the Association of American Cem- 
etery Superintendents, now holds the 
position of advisory susperintendent of 
Fairmount Cemetery, Newark, N. J. 
Mr. Nichols w’ill be 84 years old on July 
31, and writes that he expects to attend 
the coming convention of the superin- 
tendents at Boston in August. 
Mr. Otto Meurer, for 29 years super- 
intendent of. Trinity Cemetery, New 
York City, died March 25 last. Mr. 
Meurer had been connected with the 
Trinity Corporation for 36 years, and 
was one of its most valued members. 
He took charge of the cemetery when it 
was practically a wooded tract, and 
made it a place of beauty. 
■ Mr. Byron A. Stearns, formerly super- 
intendent of Pine Grove Cemetery, Man- 
chester. N. H., died suddenly on June 
25. He had been in poor health for two 
years. He was 51 years old, and had 
been a resident of Manchester all his 
life. 
H. H. Hunnewell, of Wellesley, Mass., 
died on May 20, at the age of 91 years. 
Mr. Hunnewell was a well-known bank- 
er and a generous patron of horticul- 
ture. On his fine estate at Wellesly he 
had one of the largest collections of rho- 
dodendrons and the rarer varieties' of 
coniferae in the country. He was for 
50 years a member of the Massachu- 
setts Horticultural Society, and had al- 
ways been one of its most enthusiastic 
workers, having been especially active 
in the cultivation of choice evergreens, 
and in the adornment of home grounds. 
He was a widely read and scholarly 
man, and possessed a large and valua- 
ble library on horticulture and kindred 
subject.s. He had a thorough knowledge 
of these branches, and relied largely on 
his own taste in improving his estates. 
He held the honorary degree of Master 
of Arts from Harvard University, and 
was a prominent member of many influ- 
ential societies and organizations. 
j BOOKS, REPORTS, ETC., RECEIVED. ^ 
Transactions of the Massachusetts 
Horticultural Society for the year 1901, 
Part 1 . This book contains a valuable 
collection of papers and discussions 
given at the various meetings of the so- 
ciety during the year. It contains 144 
pages, and is illustrated with half-tone 
views of trees and shrubbery. Among 
the papers which it contains are the fol- 
lowing : Evergreens for Winter Effect, 
by J. Woodward Manning (illustrated) ; 
Trees of Our Neighborhood, by Miss 
Emma G. Cummings ; A Visit to Kew 
Gardens and Hampton Court, by Benja- 
min P. Ware ; A Quarter Century’s Ev- 
olution in American Horticulture, by 
Patrick O’Mara; Studies of Some Tree- 
Destroying Fungi, by Prof. Geo. F. At- 
kinson. Each of the papers is fol- 
lowed by a general discussion of the 
subject, and the collection will prove a 
worthy addition to the horticulturist’s 
library. 
Cremation ; Its History, Practice and 
.Advantages ; published by the Mount 
Royal Cemetery Company, Montreal, 
Quebec. An attractively bound and il- 
lustrated book, showing a number of ex- 
cellent views of the recently erected 
crematorium at Mount Royal Cemetery. 
It gives a general history of cremation, 
ancient and modern, as well as the local 
history and account of the establishment 
of the Montreal crematory and conserv- 
atory combined. .A plan of the build- 
ing and specimens of the official forms 
used in its operation are also given. 
Bulletin of the New York Botanical 
Garden ; \-olume 2, No. 7. Contains 
complete reports of all the officers and 
committees, and a number of valuable 
botanical contributions, accompanied by 
plates. They include : Mycological 
Studies, by F. S. Earle; .A Preliminary 
List of Montana Mosses, by R. S. Wil- 
liams ; and Geological and Botanical 
Notes, Cape Cod and Chappaquidick 
Island, Mass., by Arthur Hallick. 
New Rural Cemetery of the Capital 
City ■ Cemetery Corporation, Albany, N. 
Y. Contains a general summary, by- 
laws, and the first annual report of the 
comptroller. Illustrated with many 
half-tone views of cemetery scenery. 
Proceedings of the 35th Annual Con- 
vention of the American Institute of 
Architects, 1901. 
Fifteenth Annual Report of the State ^ 
Board of Health, to the Governor of 
the State of Ohio ; 603 pages. 
The Experimental Farms; appendix to 
the report of the Minister of Agricul- 
ture of the Dominion of Canada ; 1901 ; 
published at Ottawa, by S. E. Dawson; 
price, 40 cents. Contains reports of the 
director, agriculturist, horticulturist, 
chemist, entomologist, and other officials 
of the Canadian Experiment Stations. 
