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PARK AND CE:M£.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, 
DISCUSSIONS of subjects pertinent to these 
columns by 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, J, H^AIGHT, Publisher, 
324 Dearborn St., CHICAGO. 
Eastern Office t 
1538 Am.Tract Society Bldg., New York, 
Subscription SI. 00 a Year in Advance. 
Foreign Subscription $11.60. 
Published IVlonthly. 
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, 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. Simonds, Chicago. 
Seventh Annual Meeting, Buffalo, 1903. 
Publisher's Notes. 
Mr. Charles Nichols, formerly advis- 
ory superintendent of Fairmount Ceme- 
tery, Newark, N. J., and the oldest 
member of the Association of American 
Cemetery Superintendents, resigned his 
position with that cemetery July i, 1902, 
and has retired from active service. He 
desires his friends to address him at 46 
Milford Ave., Newark, N. J., inscead of 
at the cemetery, 489 S. Orange Ave. 
Mr. Charles M. Loring, of Minneapo- 
lis, recently delivered a stereopticon ad- 
dress in that city at an entertainment 
given by the American Federation of 
Labor. The subject was street and park 
improvement, and a number of interest- 
ing views taken by Jacob Riis, illustrat- 
ing outdoor improvements among the 
working classes, were shown. Mr. Lor- 
ing also spoke at the exercises in pre- 
sentation of prizes to the Adams School 
in that city for the best kept school 
grounds. The prizes consisted of a num- 
ber of handsome pictures offered by the 
Commercial Club. 
The second annual meeting of the 
Iowa Park and Forestry Association 
was held in Des Moines, December 8 
and 9, and a number of interesting pa- 
pers were read and discussed. Among 
the subjects discussed were the follow- 
ing: The Farmer’s Wood Lot, Street 
and Shade Trees, Evergreens and Ce- 
dars, Civic Improvements and City 
Planting of Trees, Shrubs and Other 
Wild Plants for Decorative Purposes, 
School Gardens and Forestry in Europe, 
Iowa Parks and Natural Scenery, etc. 
The Christmas double number of 
Country Life in America is a magnifi- 
cent picture of winter out of doors, and 
merely a glance at the illustrations is 
sufficient to drive the nature lover into 
the country whether he will or no. It 
contains 96 pages of beautiful pictures 
and special articles on many phases of 
out-door life, and should be a part of 
every Christmas library. The opening 
article is a poem by Rudyard Kipling on 
“Pan in Vermont,” depicting in a hu- 
morous vein the wiles of the traveling 
nursery agent. Some of the other spe- 
cial features are : Nancy’s Country 
House Party, by Eleanor Hoyt ; Win- 
ter Sports, — a Symposium ; Poems of 
Winter; A Cabin Christmas; The Win- 
ter Eireside; A Florida Home at Christ- 
mas Time, and three beautiful supple- 
ments — Winter, a series of four photo- 
graphs, by Rudolf Eickenmeyer, Jr., The 
Old Fireplace on Christmas Morning, 
and Old Mammy’s Christmas Lesson : 
Doulileday, Page & Co., New York; 
price, 50c ; $3.00 a year. 
The October number of the Fern Bul- 
letin, published quarterly by Willard N. 
Clute & Co., Binghampton, N. Y., cele- 
brates the tenth anniversary of that 
journal and contains a number of spe- 
cial articles that will be of interest to all 
lovers of ferns. Among them is “A 
Ten Years’ Retrospect,” by Willard N. 
Clute, giving an interesting history of 
fern literature in America. 
Obituary. 
Mr. Henry Probasco, president of the 
board of directors of Spring Grove Cem- 
etery, Cincinnati, O., died October 26, 
after a service of 37 years in that ca- 
pacity. The following tribute to his 
memory by Jos. C. Spear, secretary of 
the association, was recently published 
in the Cincinnati Commercial Tribune: 
“In the fifty-eight years of its corporate 
existence the cemetery of Spring Grove 
has had but two presidents of its board 
of directors, the last of these being Mr. 
Henry Probasco. Elected a director in 
1865, he at once took a leading part in 
the management of the cemtery. Al- 
ways enthusiastic and energetic in what- 
ever he undertook, he gave to it his best 
thought and much of his time. The lot 
owners generally can have but a faint 
idea of how well he served them, and 
only to those who have been behind the 
scenes, as it were, are known the efforts 
he put forth for everything that would 
in any way forward the interests of his 
beloved Spring Grove. In his personal 
relations and dealings with his fellow- 
men Mr. Probasco was always kind and 
considerate, and while quick to condemn 
a wrong, his generous heart more quick- 
ly prompted him to praise the right. His 
greatest pleasure was in bringing hap- 
piness to others. Many are the in- 
stances in support of this of which the 
public knows, but almost innumerable 
are those not so generally known. Al- 
ways of a bright and happy tempera- 
ment, it was a pleasure to meet him, and 
the adversities of his late years, instead 
of souring, seemed but to make sweeter 
his lovable disposition. His host of 
friends will miss him sadly, but be com- 
forted with the knowledge that “all is 
well with him.” 
Charles H. Miller, formerly consult- 
ing landscape gardener of Fairmount 
Park, Philadelphia, died at his home in 
that city, November 2, at the age of 73 
years. Mr. Miller was born in England 
and received his professional training at 
the Royal Gardens at Kew. He came to 
America in 1858 and settled in North 
Carolina, but soon after removed to 
Philadelphia. Mr. Miller stood high in 
his profession, and planned many hand- 
some private estates in addition to his 
public work. He was chief of the bu- 
reau of horticulture for the Centennial 
Exposition, and was one of the vice- 
presidents of the Pennsylvania Horti- 
cultural Society at the time of his death. 
He founded the nursery business of 
Yates & Co., under the name of Miller 
& Hayes, but in 1887 withdrew from 
the firm to give his whole time to land- 
scape gardening. He leaves a widow 
and two daughters. 
t BOOKS. REPORTS, ETC,, RECEIVED J 
Annual report of the Smithsonian In- 
stitution for 1901, Government Printing 
Office, Washington, D. C., 1902: This 
popular volume contains fifty articles, 
many of them illustrated, nearly all pre- 
pared by masters of the respective sub- 
jects, telling in clear and interesting 
language of the latest progress in all 
the principal branches of knowledge. 
Among the interesting features is a 
short sketch of the history and the work 
of the institution, which begins with a 
paragraph from President Roosevelt’s 
first message to Congress, in which he 
calls attention to the institution’s func- 
tions and its present needs. The report 
contains an appendix giving a summary 
of the most interesting events of the 
scientific year, prepared for that large 
body of the public which does not care 
for professional memoirs, but has a gen- 
eral interest in such matters. Some of 
the other contributions are papers on 
utilization of the sun’s energy, the Bog- 
osloff volcanoes of Alaska, forest de- 
struction, irrigation, the Children’s 
