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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 hy persons practically acquainted with 
them, are especially desired. 
ANNUAL REPOE,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. ], HAIGHT, Publisher, 
324 Dearborn St,, CHICAGO, 
Eastern Office i 
1538 Am,Tract Society Bldg,, New York, 
Subscription SI.OO a Year in Advance. 
Foreign Subscription $1.50. 
Published Monthly. 
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, 19U2. 
THE AMERICAN PARK AND OUT-DOOR 
Art Association; President, E. J. Parker, 
Quincy, 111.; Secretar3-, 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 special summer meeting of the 
American Forestry Association will be 
held at Lansing, Mich., August 27 and 
28. and an attractive program of dis- 
cussions and entertainment has been ar- 
ranged. There will be five business ses- 
sions, which will be held at the state 
Capitol, and the society will be the guest 
of the Michigan Forestry Commission 
and the Michigan .Agricultural College. 
E.xcursions will be made to the Michi- 
gan Forestry Preserve, in Roscommon 
and Crawford counties, to the hardwood 
forests in .Antrim county, and thence to 
Mackinac Island. 
The State Forestry .Association, re- 
cently organized at Cheyenne, Wyoming, 
has recommended that a superintendent 
of forestry be appointed for each coun- 
ty in the state, and is also using its 
influence to have a department of for- 
estry established in the University of 
Wyoming. The officers of the associa- 
tion are; President, H. B. Henderson; 
vice-president, W. H. Halliday ; secre- 
tary, W. C. Deming; treasurer, F. Chat- 
terton. 
'fhe eighteenth annual meeting and 
e.xhibition of the Society of .American 
Florists and Ornamental Horticulturists 
will be held at Asheville, N. C., August 
19-22. Railroad rates lower than ever 
before obtained have been granted, and 
the program gives promise of one of the 
most successful meetings in the history 
of the society. 
The recently-organized Wild Flower 
Preservation Society held an enthusiast- 
ic and successful meeting, July 2, at the 
Phipps Conservatory, Pittsburg, Pa., at 
which plans were formulated and ad- 
dresses made hy Mrs. N. L. Britton, 
Prof. Chas. E. Bessey, and Prof. S. 
AI. Tracy. It is the intention of the 
•secretary, Mr. Charles L. Pollard, to de- 
liver a number of illustrated lectures 
during the late summer and early fall 
on "Vanishing Wild Flowers.’’ 
We know of no periodical that will 
do so much good in the home, especially 
where there are young children, as Our 
Dumb Animals, published by the Massa- 
chusetts Society for the Prevention of 
Cruelty to .Animals, at 19 Milk St., Bos- 
douhle purpose by being adapted to use 
for rolling roads, lawns, and walks, and 
also for use as a power for running 
stone crushers, etc. Mr. A. Austin, 
manager of the cemetery, recommends 
the roller highly. 
Chicago Building Commissioner has 
denied permission to erect a bill board 
that was to have been one hundred and 
fifty feet long and has issued an order to 
one of the local companies to pull down 
a huge billboard, in which it is said near- 
ly a carload of lumber was used. 
Personal. 
Col. Henry J. Latshaw has been ap- 
pointed city forester of Kansas City, 
Mo. He will begin planting trees this 
fall. 
PHCTJ COURTESY JULIPN SCHOLL A CO., N- Y, 
VIEW IN NOKTHWOOD CEMETERY, PHILADELPHIA, SHOWING ROAD ROLLER 
AT WORK. 
ton, Alass. We firmly believe that 
through the efforts of Mr. George T. 
Angell this little publication has done 
more in the cause of kindness to man 
and beast than all other agencies com- 
bined. In one family that the writer 
knows of a little boy became so im- 
pressed with its teachings that he was 
found one morning currying the cow be- 
cause he thought she needed as kind 
treatment as the horse. 
The illustration on this page gives a 
view in Northwood Cemetery, Philadel- 
phia, Pa., showing one of the “Univer- 
sal" Road Rollers of Julian Scholl & 
Co. at work. This firm has given much 
attention to the preparation of a roller 
especially adapted to cemeteries, and the 
one shown here embodies many features 
essential in cemetery work. It serves a 
Mr. J. Y. Craig, of Omaha, Neb., has 
been laying out an addition to Wyuka 
Cemetery, Lincoln, Neb., and improv- 
ing the old grounds, which comprise 
forty acres. 
Charles N. Snyder, for thirty-two 
years secretary of the West Laurel Hill 
Cemetery Co., of Philadelphia, Pa., 
died June 7th, 1902, of heart disease, 
and was buried in West Laurel Hill 
Cemetery, in his lot in Summit sec- 
tion — the first part of any Philadelphia 
cemetery laid out in the modern land- 
scape lawn plan. Mr. Snyder was born 
January 4th, 1827, in Philadelphia. He 
served with distinction in the Civil War, 
during which service he contracted the 
disease which resulted in his death. 
While in the hospital on account of in- 
juries he was taken into the apothecary 
