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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 Viilage Improvement Associations, 
DISCUSSIONS of subjects pertinent to these 
columns by persons practically acquainted with 
them, are especially desired. 
ANNUAL REPORTS 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 •. 
1538 Am.Tract Society Bldg., New York. 
Subscription $1.00 a Year in Advance. 
Foreign Subscription $1.50. 
Published Monthly. 
ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN CEME- 
tery Superintendents ; President, H. Wilson 
Ross, “Newton”, Newton Center, Mass; Vice- 
President, J. C. Dix, Cleveland, O.; Secretary 
and Treasurer, J. H. Morton, “City Ceme- 
teries”, Boston, Mas^. 
Seventeenth Annual Convention, Rochester, 
N. Y., 1903. 
THE AMERICAN PARK AND OUT-DOOR 
Art Association: President, Clinton Rodgers 
Woodruff, Philadelphia; Secretary, Charles 
Mulford Robinson, Rochester, N. Y.; Treas- 
urer, O. C. Simonds, Chicago. 
Seventh Annual Meeting, Buffalo, 1903. 
Publisher's Notes, 
Several interesting articles which 
were to have appeared in our columns 
in tins and the preceding issue have 
been crowded out owing to the space 
that- was necessarily devoted to reports 
of the Boston conventions. 
I'he Anthony Republican, Anthony, 
Kas., devotes considerable space to an 
account of the work of Mayor James 
Glover, of Bluff City, Kas., in estab- 
lishing a park in that city. Mr. Glover 
is very warmly commended for his sys- 
tematic efforts to beautify Bluff City, 
which finally resulted in giving it one of 
the prettiest parks of any of the towns 
in Kansas. A full account of Mr. 
Glover's work with views of the park 
appeared in a recent issue of Park and 
Cemetery. 
In response to a letter sent out to 
railroad presidents and other officials by 
the .\merican Park and Outdoor Art 
Association, the Illinois Central Rail- 
road has taken up the work of beautify- 
ing its terminals and station grounds on 
lines suggested by Mr. E. J. Parker, the 
former president of the association. 
President Fish, of the Illinois Central, 
recently held a conference with Mr. 
Parker on the subject, and the road's 
landscape gardener, Mr. John Porter 
has visited Quincy, 111 ., to obtain ideas 
and suggestions for proceeding with the 
work. 
Col. Henry J. Latshaw, recently ap- 
pointed City Forester, of Kansas City. 
Mo., is taking energetic measures to 
prevent the mutilation of trees by hitch- 
ing horses to them. He has had placed 
on every block of residence street in 
that city placards bearing warnings to 
the effect that : “Any person hitching 
to or near trees or permitting horses to 
stop or stand within reach of any street 
tree will be prosecuted for violating city 
ordinances.” The section of the city 
ordinance applying to the case is quoted, 
and Col. Latshaw reports that the effect 
on the careless and inconsiderate has 
been very salutary. Mr. Sid J. Hare, 
of that city, is also assisting in the work 
of educating the citizens to care for 
their trees, and in a recent newspaper 
interview he recommends the teaching 
of the children in the public schools to 
care for their grounds and to plant trees 
and shrubs. 
The Minneapolis Commercial Club 
has issued an attractive illustrated fold- 
er giving announcements of prizes for 
planting and beautifying home grounds 
in that city which are offered by that 
organization for the year 1902. The 
folder gives directions for planting 
trees, shrubs, and flowers, and illustrates 
the proper methods of trimming and 
planting trees. The city was divided 
into six sections, and 36 prizes with a 
total value of $180 are to be awarded. 
Twenty-four of the prizes are for the 
best kept and most attractive yard, 
front or back, of premises owned or oc- 
cupied by one whose salary does not ex- 
ceed $1,200 per year, and 12 children’s 
prizes, of five dollars each, are to go to 
the six boys and six girls for the most 
attractive flower-beds during the sum- 
mer and early fall. 
The New Hampshire State Grange 
offered last spring three prizes, $100. 
$60, and $40. respectively, to the subor- 
dinate granges in the state, for setting 
out the largest number of shade or or- 
namental trees, and Secretary E. C. 
Hutchinson, of Milford, N. H.. writes 
that a great deal of interest was taken 
in the contest. The rules governing the 
competition specified that trees must be 
at least A/i inches in diameter, and 
could be set along highways, in school 
yards, church yards, cemeteries, public 
commons, and around private residences. 
The trees were to be set on Arbor Day, 
1902, when they were inspected by the 
District Deputies, and the prizes will be 
awarded in December, 1903. 
Henry F. Michell. 1018 Market St., 
Philadelphia, has been awarded the con- 
tract to supply all of the bulbs for the 
Capitol grounds and for the "White 
House grounds and greenhouses at 
Washington, D. C. This firm is also 
supplying the bulbs for the public 
squares in Philadelphia for the fifth con- 
secutive year, and has furnished large 
numbers for the parks of Baltimore. 
I BOOKS, REPORTS, ETC,, RECEIVED. | 
Mount Auburn Cemetery, Boston, 
Mass., has issued a handsomely illus- 
trated book of the cemetery, showing 
views of the administration buildings, 
the crematory, a number of the monu- 
ments, and many beautiful bits of 
scenery. The illustrations are photogra- 
vures of fine quality, and the book is 
artistically executed throughout. A 
plan of the cemetery, and a list of the 
famous people interred there, giving the 
location of their graves, accompanies the 
book. 
First Annual Report of Knollwood 
Cemetery, Boston, Mass. The book 
contains reports of the comptroller and 
landscape architect, Leonard W. Ross, 
of the Board of Directors, rules and 
regulations and information concerning 
the cemetery. The comptroller also 
sends a plan and colored map of Knoll- 
wood, and several specimens of attract- 
ive advertising literature. 
“The Future,” a neatly printed and 
illustrated book of Locust Wood Ceme- 
tery, near Camden, N. J., (office, Phila- 
delphia, Pa.), has been received. It is 
profusely illustrated with excellent half- 
tone views of cemetery scenery, and is 
artistically designed and printed. Con- 
tains full information concerning the 
cemetery, and is accompanied by a map. 
Descriptive Catalogue and tickets to 
the seventy-first fair of the American 
Institute of the City of New York to be 
held in New York City, September 23d 
to 2Stb, 1902, giving premiums to be 
awarded for flowers, ornamental plants, 
fruits, garden vegetables, field crops, etc. 
West Laurel Hill Cemetery, Philadel- 
phia. Pa., sends an attractive advertising 
blotter, showing two views of cemetery 
scenery, and giving prices of lots and 
other information. The perpetual care 
fund amounted on January ist, 1902, to 
$113,383.25. 
The Fairview Cemetery Company, 
Fairview, N. J. A handsomely illus- 
trated descriptive book, giving rules and 
regulations, and complete information 
concerning the establishment of the 
cemetery which was incorporated Jan- 
uary 15, 1901. Also a large map of the 
grounds. 
Twenty-seventh annual rCk,ort of the 
Board of Park Commissioners of Bos- 
ton, Mass., for the year ending January 
31, 1902. A neatly printed report of 76 
pages, giving reports of all the officers, 
park statistics, financial statements, etc. 
Illustrated with a number of excellent 
views. 
