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Program of tHe Cemetery Sviperintendents* Convention. 
The sixteenth animal convention of the Association 
of American Cemetery Superintendents will be held 
in Boston, Mass., August 19, 20, and 21, and in Lynn 
and Salem on August 22, for the purpose of visiting 
cemeteries in those cities. 
The headquarters will be at the Copley Square Ho- 
tel, on Huntington Ave., and all meetings will be held 
there, unless otherwise noted. Rates of from $r.oo 
to $2.50 per day have been' obtained, European plan, 
with board $2.00 per day additional, or $1.50 for 
breakfast and dinner. 
The program is as follows : 
Tuesday, August 19ih, 9^30 A, M, 
Meeting called to order. 
Prayer by Rev. C. H. Spaulding, D. D. 
Reception of new members and roll call. 
Address of welcome. 
President’s address. 
Report of secretary and treasurer. 
Communications. 
Appointment of committees. 
The cemetery statistics compiled by President Frank Enrich 
will be discussed as opportunity occurs. 
Recess. 
Afternoon session, 2 o’clock — 
Members will assemble in front of the Public Library, 
where guides will conduct them to the King’s Chapel, Granary 
and other noted burymg grounds, to Boston Common and the 
Public Garden. 
Evening session, 8 o’clock — 
Paper — “Old Cemeteries of Boston”. . Hon. J. Albert Brackett 
Paper — “Respect for the dead and justice to their de- 
scendants’,’ A. W. Hobart 
Some Good 
Few shrubs are more effective in late summer and 
early autumn than the Hypericums, or St. John’s 
Worts, as they are popularly called. A good plant- 
ing of the American and foreign species makes a beau- 
tiful group, very showy at this season. They may 
be used in many ways, and are especially useful for 
covering rough banks and for rock-work, while some 
kinds make good carpeting plants to cover the ground 
between larger shrubs. Nearly all of the species and 
varieties are pretty and useful. They are of various 
habit of growth ; some are bushy, others prostrate. 
They remain in flower for a long time when few other 
shrubs are in bloom. Their foliage is neat and clean, 
and they require little pruning. They will grow in 
any good soil. Most of them are quite hardy, and do 
best in partial shade and in a rather moist situation. 
There is a great diversity of appearance in the dif- 
ferent species and varieties, making a well-planted 
group of them beautiful and interesting. 
For such a group the taller kinds, like H. Ascyron, 
H. aureum and H. lobocarpum, if it can be procured, 
should be planted in the center, with smaller kinds 
like the Japanese H. patulum, H. Kalmianum, H. pro- 
The reading of papers to be followed by intormal dis- 
cussion. 
Wednesday, August 20fh, 
Street cars will be at the hotel promptly at 8:30 o’clock to 
convey the members to the following places : Harvard Col- 
lege, Cambridge, leaving there at 9 130 o’clock for the Botan- 
ical Garden, at which place the curator, Mr. Robert Cameron, 
will read a paper on “The Herbaceous Borders.” 
Visit to Mount Auburn and Newton Cemeteries. 
Evening session, 7 130 o’clock — 
Paper — “From the Undertaker’s Point of View” 
H. D. Litchfield 
Paper — “Progress of the Cemetery Memorial Industry 
During the Past Twenty Years”. .W. B. Van Amringe 
Paper — “Road Building” C. \V. Ross 
Paper — “Cremation” ..Oscar L. Stevens 
Thursday, August 21st, 
Morning session, 9 :oo o’clock — 
Election of officers. 
Paper ^V. N. Rudd 
Paper .Thomas White 
Afternoon session, i 130 o’clock — 
Visit to Mount Hope and Forest Hills Cemeteries, Arnold 
Arboretum and Franklin Park. 
Evening session, 7 o’clock — 
Paper — “Grasses” Archibald Smith 
Paper — “Notes on Tree Planting” J. A. Pettigrew 
'Friday, August 2 2d. 
At 9 130 o’clock members will assemble at Scollay Square 
to take cars for Pine Grove Cemetery, Lynn, Harmony Grove 
Cemetery, Salem. Shore dinner at Salem. Unfinished busi- 
ness. Adjournment. Return by electric cars to Boston. 
There wdll be no evening session. 
All cemetery corporations are cordially invited to 
send representatives to the convention. 
Hypericxims. 
lificum, and H. calycinum, grouped around the larger 
sorts. The ground between might be carpeted with 
the Creeping St. John’s Wort, Hypericum adpressum, 
and a border made of the beautiful variety, H. Moseri- 
anum, would complete the bed. H. Moserianum is 
quite dwarf, about two feet in height. It was raised 
bv Monsieur iMoses of Versailles, ten or twelve years 
ago and is a cross between H. patulum and H. caly- 
cinum. It has larger flowers than any other Hyperi- 
cum. These are a clear, bright yellow, from two to 
three inches in diameter, and very freely produced. 
The foliage is pretty, the young leaves delicately 
tinged with rose. 
Unfortunately, this variety it not quite hardy. It 
needs winter protection of a mound of ashes or a layer 
of dead leaves over the roots. It dies down to the 
ground in the fall, but springs up again from the 
roots in the spring. 
Its two parents, H. patulum and H. calycinum, are 
both fine sorts, neither of them native to this country. 
They are of low growth and have large, bright yellow 
blossoms, very freely and constantly produced. 
Hypericum lobocarpum is one of our little known 
