PARK AND CE-METERY 
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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 i 
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. 
This issue of Park and Cemetery 
closes the 13th volume of this journal 
and the annual index is mailed with 
this number. Subscribers who may need 
missing numbers to complete their files 
are requested to make known their 
wants soon, as we do not carry over 
many copies of back numbers. We would 
recommend the use of a binder for 
filing the copies of Park and Cemetery, 
as they are received. This insures hav- 
ing the file intact and clean until trans- 
ferred to a permanent binding. We 
furnish a good cloth covered binder 
with patent device for holding the 
papers in place for 75 cents sent by mail 
postpaid. 
Country Life in America is making 
extensive preparations for a “Garden- 
ing Number,” which is expected to be 
a most important issue of this large and 
beautiful magazine. It will be a double 
number, covering every branch of plant- 
growing, and prizes will be offered for 
the best “experiences” of readers who 
follow out its suggestions through 
spring and summer for vegetable and 
home flower-gardening, as well as 
many kinds of landscape and village 
improvement gardening. 
The eighty-sixth birthday of Mr. 
George Ellwanger, of the firm of Ell- 
wanger & Barry, of Rochester, N. Y., 
was celebrated in December with a ban- 
quet at the Genesee Valley Club in that 
city. On the same day the firm also 
gave a banquet to the heads and sub- 
heads of departments of the Ellwanger 
& Barry nurseries. 
The annual report of the board of 
managers of the Wild Flower Preser- 
vation Society, organized about one 
year ago for the preservation of our 
native plants, shows gratifying progress 
in the dissemination of information by 
means of public addresses and by the 
circulation of literature. Arrangements 
are now being made for a lecture on 
“Vanishing Wild Flowers,” by Charles 
L. Pollard, secretary of the society, to 
be delivered at Johns Hopkins Univer- 
sity, in Baltimore, and at the Academy 
of Sciences in Philadelphia. 
The Horticultural Palace at the St. 
Louis Exposition will contain a large 
display of horticulture under the follow- 
ing classifications : Trees, shrubs, orna- 
mental plants and flowers ; plants of the 
conservatory ; seeds and plants for gar- 
dens and nurseries; garden appliances 
and methods, including landscape ar- 
chitecture, plans, drawings, models, 
books, pictures, etc. No charge will be 
made for space occupied, and a limited 
amount of power for the operation of 
mechanical devices will be allowed. 
Indian Planting and Gardening, for- 
merly Indian Gardening and Planting, 
published at Calcutta, India, in the in- 
terests of all forms of gardening and 
planting in that country, began its 
twelfth volume last month in greatly 
enlarged and improved form. This en- 
couraging growth and progress is due 
to the increasing importance of the 
planting section of the paper, which has 
been placed first. The new edition is 
ten pages larger than the old, and is 
much improved in both form and mat- 
ter. 
Obituary, 
P. S. Peterson, of the nursery firm of 
P. S. Peterson & Son, Chicago, died at 
his home in that city January 19, 1903. 
Mr. Peterson was 75 years old, and 
was the founder of the well-known 
Rose Hill nurseries. He was born in 
Sweden and acquired the groundwork 
of his craft in that country, but was for 
many years in the establishment of 
Louis Van Houtte in Belgium. In 1851 
he came to America and after working 
for a number of firms in the East set- 
tled in Chicago in 1853, immediately 
purchasing the first acre of his nur- 
series, which now cover 500 acres of the 
northern suburbs of Chicago. He was 
the first nurseryman in Chicago to 
transplant large trees, and specimens 
of his work in this line were seen in 
Jackson Park during the World’s Fair, 
and elsewhere in the parks and boule- 
vards of Chicago and other cities. Mr. 
Peterson was a deep and thorough stu- 
dent of his profession, enthusiastic, and 
widely read, and possessed one of the 
finest horticultural libraries in the 
country. He was held in high esteem 
personally by all who knew him and 
was a valued citizen of Chicago. Al- 
though he never sought public office, he 
was a trustee of the Town of Jefferson 
for many years and was largely instru- 
mental in obtaining for that community 
many of the good roads and bridges 
and other public improvements. Peter- 
son avenue, which was named for him, 
he opened for a distance of three miles 
at his own expense. As a philanthro- 
pist his name is known from one end of 
Sweden to the other. Mr. Peterson 
was for many years a member of the 
Union League and Germania clubs, and 
of horticultural societies at home and 
abroad. In 1894 he was made a Knight 
of Vasa by the King of Sweden. Mr. 
Peterson leaves a widow and one son, 
Mr. Wm. A. Peterson, who for some 
years past has managed the extensive 
business. 
Benjamin D. Judson, superintendent 
of St. Agnes Cemetery, Troy, N. Y., 
died at his home in that city December 
27th, 1902. Mr. Judson was born at 
West Sand Lake, N. Y., in 1853, and 
had been superintendent of St. Agnes 
Cemetery since 1886. He became a 
member of the Association of American 
Cemetery Superintendents in 1888, and 
always took a deep interest in its delib- 
erations. Mr. Judson’s remains were 
interred in the cemetery where he had 
labored so faithfully and which he 
did so much to beautify. Mr. Charles 
T. G. Flaherty, who has been Mr. Jud- 
son's assistant for fifteen years, has 
been appointed to succeed him. 
Mr. Frederick Mackenzie, secretary 
of Lake View Cemetery, Calumet, 
Mich., died of heart failure January 
17th, at the age of 70 years. Mr. Mac- 
kenzie was one of the directors and 
charter members of Lake View Ceme- 
tary Association, and was an earnest 
worker for the public welfare. He was 
proprietor and editor of the Copper 
Country Evening News, the only even- 
ing daily in Calumet. 
First Annual Report of the Montana 
Farmers’ Institute for the year ending 
November 30, 1902; edited by S. For- 
tier, secretary, Helena, Mont. : A re- 
