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PARK AND CEMETRRY 
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 by persons practically acquainted with 
them, are especially desired. 
ANNUAL REPOPvTS 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 t 
1538 Am,Tract Society Bldg,, New York, 
Subscription SI. 00 a Year in Advance. 
Foreign Subscription S1.50. 
Published Monthly. 
ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN CEME- 
tery Superintendents : President, H. Wilson 
Ross, “Newton”, Newton Center, Mass; Vice- 
President, J. C. Dix, Cleveland, (>.; Secretary 
and Treasurer, J. H. Morton, “City Ceme- 
teries”, Boston, Mass, 
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. Siraonds, Chicago. 
Seventh Annual Meeting, Buffalo, 1903. 
Publisher's Notes. 
Instruction in forestry is being of- 
fered in the University of Nebraska, 
t’le University of Michigan, and the 
Michigan Agricultural College, hegin- 
ning with this collegiate year. At Ne- 
braska the work will be in charge of 
Prof. Chas. E. P>essey, at .'Vnn Arbor 
under Prof. C. .A.. Davis, and at the Ag- 
ricultural College, under Prof. C. C. 
P)Ogue. 
'I'he Society for the Protection of New 
Hampshire Forests recently held a suc- 
cessful meeting at Concord, N. H., at 
which steps were taken for the estab- 
lishment of a reservation in the White 
Mountain Region. 
We have received from Mr. E. J. 
Parker, of Quincy, III., a souvenir tray 
of aluminum on the face of which is 
shown a view of Riverview Park in that 
city. The work is tastefully executed 
and makes a very artistic and attractive 
souvenir. 
'I'he manufacture of tanks and towers 
for parks and cemeteries as well as for 
industrial purposes, is large and grow- 
ing. The W. E. Caldwell Company, of 
Louisville, Ky., send out, on an average, 
thirty tanks and towers a month. 'I'hey 
are used for water supply in villages 
and small towns, in parks and in private 
grounds as well as for fire protection at 
factories. They also ship from 50 to 
200 tanks a month that are not mounted. 
Their yearly output calls for about 3,- 
000,000 feet of selected timber mostly 
Louisiana cypress and Georgia pine, and 
300 tons of steel bands. 
Mr. Sid. J. Hare, of Kansas City, Mo., 
delivered an address before the Missouri 
Valley Horticultural Society at its recent 
convention on “Our Home Grounds ; 
Some Landscape Aids in P)eantifying 
'rhem," in which he emphasized the im- 
portance of the natural in landscape 
work, and gave many valuable hints for 
imprordng home grounds. 
Shade Trees, by W. A. Mnrrill, Ph. 
D., has been issued as Bulletin 205. 
Cornell Lhiiversity Agricultural Experi- 
ment Station, Ithaca. N. Y. This bul- 
letin is a careful study of shade trees in 
cities, drawn from a year's study of 
trees in Ithaca, N. Y., a number of otlier 
American cities, and some of the capi- 
tals of Europe. 'I'he injuries which 
come to trees as the result of their en- 
\-ironment in cities and methods to he 
taken for their protection are discussed, 
as well as the general care of shade 
trees, tlie selection of suitable varieties, 
and methods of planting and pruning. 
'I'he relative merits of the different street 
trees are considered, and a great variety 
of methods of protection illustrated. 
Message from the President transmit- 
ting a report of the Secretary of Agri- 
culture in relation to the forests, rivers, 
and mountains of the Southern Appala- 
chian Region; Washington, Government 
Printing Office, 1902 : 'hhis report is a 
valnal)le book of 210 pages, comprising 
a detailed report of the results of the in- 
\-estigation authorized by the last Con- 
gress relative to creating a national for- 
est reserve in this region, a hill for 
which is now before Congress. 'fhe 
hook is illustrated with more than seven- 
ty-five fine half-tone plates and maps, 
and constitutes a compendium of timely 
information about the proposed Appala- 
chian National Park. Some of the con- 
clusions drawn by the Secretary of Ag- 
riculture are as follows : The Southern 
Appalachians embrace the highest peaks, 
and largest mountain masses east of the 
Rockies ; they have the heaviest rainfall 
in the United States which washes good 
soil from the mountain sides where they 
are denuded of their forests ; the rivers 
which originate here toncli every state 
from Ohio to the Gulf, and from the 
Atlantic to the Mississippi, and their 
flow can only be regulated by the con- 
servation of the forests ; they contain 
the heaviest and most beautiful hard- 
wood forests on the continent ; the pres- 
ervation of these forests is imperative 
because floods will increase in frequency 
if forest destruction continues, and can 
be accomplished only by purchase and 
creation of a National Forest Reserve. 
Transactions of the Massachusetts 
Horticultural Society for tlie year 1901 ; 
part H, Boston, 1902: The work of 
this society, , for the past year includ- 
ing the erection and dedication of the 
new Horticultural Hall in Boston, fur- 
nishes material for an interesting report 
of over 300 pages, containing reports of 
officers and committees and accounts 
of exhibitions. Of especial interest are 
the reports of the Committee on School 
Gardens and Children's Herbariums, 
and on Forestry and Roadside Improve- 
ments. 'I'he former tells of the work of 
the well-known gardens at Dayton, O., 
of the School of Horticulture at Hart- 
ford, Conn., and of other successful 
work in this direction in Bath, Me., and 
Boston, Mass. .'I'lie treasurer's report 
shows receipts for the year of $260.- 
791.28 and expenditures of $234,309.56, 
leaving a cash balance of $26,481.72. The 
following are the officers of the Society ; 
President, O. B. Hadwen, of Worcester; 
treasurer, C. E. Richardson, of Brook- 
line; secretary. William P. Rich, Bos- 
ton. 
'I'hirtieth Annual Report of the Fair- 
mount Park Art Association. Philadel- 
phia : Contains an account of the work- 
done by the society, a list of the works 
of art erected in Fairmonnt Park un- 
der its auspices, a list of members and 
an illustrated address l)y Walter Cope 
on “'fhe Relation of Natural to Artificial 
Beauty in Landscape." 
First Annual Report of the Board of 
'frustees of the Pleasure Driveway and 
Park District of Springfield, 111 ., 1902 : 
A well printed and superbly illustrated 
report ; review in Park Notes. 
Annual Report of the Cemetery De- 
partment of Boston, 1901, 1902: Reports 
of Officers, Rules and Regulations, and 
list of Lotholders in Mount Hope Ceme- 
tery ; reviewed in Cemetery Notes. 
Elm Lawn, Buffalo's New Burial 
Park : A neatly printed attractive book- 
let issued by the Buffalo Burial Park 
Association, Buffalo, N. Y. ; illustrated 
with half-tone views. Reviewed in 
Cemetery Notes. 
Memorial of the Municipal Art So- 
ciety relative to proposed changes in and 
about City Hall Square, New York: 
Contains a map of New York City. 
Clover as a Fertilizer, Bulletin No. 40, 
of the Central Experimental Farm at 
Ottawa, Can. 
Manufacture of Semolina and Maca- 
roni, Bulletin No. 20, Department of 
Agriculture. Washington, D. C. 
