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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 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 t 
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, 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. 
The third annual convention of the 
American League for Civic Improve- 
ment will be held at Chautauqua, N. Y., 
July 13-18, i<)03. 
The New England Society of Orange 
celebrated its thirty-third anniversary 
with a banquet at Orange, N. J., on 
Forefathers’ day, December 21, at which 
a number of interesting addresses by 
men of national reputation were given. 
Among the speakers were : Governor 
Murphy, of New Jersey; Thomas A. 
Edison, President Woodrow Wilson, of 
Princeton University; ex- Attorney 
General Griggs, and Frederick W. Kel- 
sey, president of the society. 
The park board of Milwaukee, Wis., 
recently passed a resolution authorizing 
the secretary to advertise for a park 
superintendent in the various park jour- 
nals of the country, and to write letters 
to prominent landscape gardeners ask- 
ing for recommendations for the posi- 
tion. Warren H. Manning, of Boston, 
is preparing plans for additions and im- 
provements for Washington, McKinley 
and Kosciusko parks in Milwaukee . 
The Studebaker Brothers’ Manufac- 
ing Company is to erect a handsome 
new building for the Y. M. C. A. of 
South Bend, Ind., in honor of the fifti- 
eth anniversary of the founding of the 
company. The plan is in response to a 
wish expressed by each of the five Stu- 
debaker brothers that the firm should 
give to the town of South Bend some 
building to be devoted to philanthropic 
purposes. 
The second annual meeting of the 
Association of Horticultural Inspectors 
of the United States and Canada was 
recently held at Atlanta, Ga. Prof. S. 
A. Forbes, state entomologist of I Hi- . 
nois, was chairman; state entomologist, 
W. M. Scott, of Georgia, secretary. A 
uniform law relating to the inspection 
of nursery stock was advocated to take 
the place of the varying state laws. Two 
of the papers discussed were the follow- 
ing : “Interstate Co-operation for the ■ 
Control of Horticultural Pests Whose 
Area of Distribution Extends Across 
State Lines,” and “Is It Desirable That 
Nurserymen Should Pay Any Part, or 
All, of the Expense of Nursery Inspec- 
tion Required by Law, Either directly 
or As a Fee for a Certificate?” 
The thirteenth annual Shaw banquet 
given to the market gardeners, florists 
and nurserymen of St. Louis and vicin- 
ity, was held at the Mercantile Club in 
that city Nov. 19, and was a very suc- 
cessful and entertaining gathering. In 
the absence of Director William Tre- 
lease, of Shaw’s Botanical Garden, H. 
C. Irish presided at the speakers’ table 
and Dr. Green acted as toastmaster. 
Among the speakers were : Dr. Hermann 
von Schrenk, A. T. Erwin, C. L. Wat- 
rous, president of the Ameiican Pomo- 
logical Society, and Dr. H. Bean, chief 
of the forestry department of the 
World’s Fair. 
The fifth annual meeting of the Mas- 
sachusetts Forestry Association was 
held in Boston, December ii. Mr. 
Theodore F. Borst, who is in charge 
of the forestry work of the Metropolitan 
Water Commission, read an interesting 
paper on “Forestry Work That Has 
Been Done in Missachusetts,” and at its 
close Mr. Borst gave valuable sugges- 
tions for immediate practical work to be 
done by the association. The following 
officers were elected ; President, Henry 
P. Walcott, of Cambridge; treasurer, 
George N. Whipple, of Boston; secre- 
tary, Edwin A. Start, of Billerica. 
Mr. Oglesby B. Paul has been ap- 
pointed landscape gardener to the city 
of Philadelphia to succeed the late 
Chas. H. Miller. Mr. Paul has had ten 
years’ experience in landscape work and 
received his early training at Harvard, 
University of Pennsylvania, and the Ar- 
nold Arboretum. He was formerly as- 
sociated with Frederick Law Olmsted. 
Mr. David Woods, superintendent of 
Homewood Cemetery, Pittsburgh, Pa., 
will have the sympathy of many of our 
readers in the loss of his wife, who de- 
parted this life after a brief illness Dec. 
19th, 1902. Mr. and Mrs. Woods had 
been married forty-nine years. The in- 
terment was at Homewood. 
^ BOOKS. REPORTS, ETC,, RECEIVED ^ 
The Woodsman’s Handbook, Part I, * 
by Henry Solon Graves, Director of the 
Yale Forest School; Bulletin No. 36 of 
the Bureau of Forestry; Government 
Printing Office, Washington, 1902 : This 
little book is a valuable addition to for- 
est literature, and comprises a collection 
of tables and rules that will be of much 
practical use to lumbermen, foresters, 
and others interested in the measure- 
ment of wood and timber. The author 
has endeavored to_ collect all the rules 
in use in the United States and Ganada, 
and explains as far as possible their or- 
igin and mode of use. The book is of 
pocket size, attractively bound and illus- 
trated with drawings showing the in- 
struments and processes used in forest 
mensuration. 
The Hardy Catalpa, by William L. 
Hall and Hermann von Schrenk; Bulle- 
tin No. 37, Bureau of Forestry : This 
Bulletin is in two parts. The Hardy 
Catalpa in Commercial Plantations, by 
William L. Hall, and The Diseases of 
the Hardy Catalpa, by Hermann von 
Schrenk. These papers present the re- 
sults of careful investigations made in 
the largest planted forests in this coun- 
try and contain an account of the be- 
havior and requirements of the hardy 
catalpa when grown in close stand in 
commercial plantations. The planta- 
tions studied were the Munger, Far- 
lington, Hunnewell, and Yaggy planta- 
tions in Kansas. Important cultural 
points in all phases of the industry are 
discussed, amplified hy tables and many 
fine half-tone illustrations. Dr. von 
Schrenk gives the soft rot as the prin- 
cipal fungus enemy of the tree and con- 
siders the remedies and methods of pre- 
vention to be taken. 
Eucalypts Cultivated in the United 
States, by S. J. McClatchie, of the Ari- 
zona Experiment Station, Phoenix, Ari- 
zona ; Bulletin No. 35, Bureau of For- 
estry, Washington, D. C. : The Euca- 
lyptus is now extensively grown in the 
Southwest for ornament, windbreaks 
and timber, and has a phenomenally 
rapid growth and an adaptation to dry 
climates which make it of great impor- 
tance in that section. This report de- 
scribes and illustrates the different spe- 
cies, gives information as to require- 
ments of soil and climate, the character 
and uses of the wood and forms a prac- 
tical guide for the planter. The Euca- 
lyptus is characterized as the most ex- 
tensively grown exotic forest tree in 
America, and many suggestions for its 
propagation and culture, and for the 
