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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
Concerning fox grass, the most success- 
ful way to get rid of this pest is to dig it 
up, preferably before July. It seeds during 
July and August. It will ruin the lawn if 
allowed to stand. As it grows more or 
less in clumps it is comparatively easy to 
uproot. Clark & Pike, 
Landscape Engineers. 
Willoughby, O. 
Selling Abandoned Lots. 
The cemetery was started in 1857 
and we now have some 300 lots from 
which we receive no compensation for care 
of, and it is quite a drain on our resources. 
The trustees have employed attorneys to 
find if we can legally take the unused 
parts of these apparently abandoned lots 
and sell the same to create a fund to per- 
petually care for them. We wondered if 
you could not give us some information 
along this line, perhaps put us in touch 
with some cemetery that has had the same 
experience and been through the courts 
with it. — O. C., Ia. 
We hare never had any experience of 
the kind. Our association gives quit claim 
deeds for all ground sold and we cannot 
legally sell the unused parts of neglected 
lots to create a fund to perpetually care for 
them. J- C. Cline, 
Supt., Woodland Cemetery. 
Dayton, O. 
Where a cemetery company, owning 
land, sells or deeds a lot to a purchaser 
for burial purposes, or sells to a purchaser 
the perpetual right of burial in a lot, evi- 
denced by the certificate delivered, as in 
our case, the cemetery company cannot 
thereafter take from the purchaser or his 
heirs the ground or the use of the ground 
sold. The purchaser has the same rights 
as the purchaser of any other title or in- 
terest in the use of land and is protected 
by the law. The burial of a body is the 
taking of actual possession of the ground 
and the possession cannot be interfered 
with, without liability for trespass. In 
addition to this, a cemetery company stands 
in the position of a trustee and as such is 
bound to protect the purchaser against the 
very acts suggested in your letter. A cem- 
etery company in this city wanted to do 
what you suggested in your letter, but very 
wisely abandoned the idea. 
Robt. Campbell, 
Supt., Cave Hill Cemetery. 
Louisville, Ky. 
Ornamental Fountains. 
Editor Asked and Answered : Our cem- 
etery association wishes to place an orna- 
mental fountain in the cemetery here. 
Where can I get a catalog of medium- 
priced fountains? — C. Cem. Assn., Ia. 
James B. Clow & Son, who advertise 
fountains on another page in this issue, 
can furnish you with anything in the way 
of bubble fountains or ornamental foun- 
tains. 
Starting Perpetual Care Fund. 
Editor Asked and Answered: Ten years 
ago this association was formed and in- 
corporated under the laws of this state. 
When we took hold of our cemetery it 
was very much run down and in a dilapi- 
dated condition — fences down and cattle 
running all over the grounds — so we 
bought from the party that had platted the 
ground all his interest and title and had it 
resurveyed, and enclosed it with a good, 
substantial iron fence at quite a large out- 
lay. Have close to 500 lot owners who 
pay a yearly assessment of $1.50 for the 
maintenance of the place, and, together 
with the sale of lots, have now accumu- 
lated in the ten years, after paying for 
necessary buildings and other expenses, 
$3,500. Our intention is to continue in the 
future as in the past, until our reserve 
fund, which now stands at $3,500, shall be 
of such an amount to make the cemetery 
self-sustaining. We are also selling per- 
petual care contracts, which augments our 
surplus or reserve fund considerably. As 
the majority of the trustees and officers of 
the association are getting old and feeble, 
we are earnestly thinking of making such 
provision for the future that our last rest- 
ing place may be cared for with assurance 
for all time to come. This money we 
have on hand, with more added, was and 
will be all realized out of our burial 
ground, and we desire to arrange matters 
so that those who succeed us after we are 
dead are forever barred to disburse this 
money in any other way, shape or form 
than for the care and maintenance of the 
cemetery, for a rising generation might say, 
we must purchase new ground for a burial 
place and use our money for such pur- 
chase of new ground, leaving our old place 
The conspicuous, unsightly nests or tents 
of the apple tree tent caterpillar are famil- 
iar objects in the spring in trees along 
roadways, streams and fences, in neglected 
orchards and elsewhere. Several methods 
of checking the depredations of this cater- 
pillar are given in a new publication of the 
Department of Agriculture, Farmers’ Bul- 
letin No. 662. 
The tent caterpillar feeds principally on 
wild cherry and apple trees, but will attack 
many other plants, and where such trees can 
be removed without disadvantage this 
should be done, thus lessening its food 
supply. 
During the dormant period of trees, 
when the leaves are off, the egg masses are 
fairly conspicuous, and with a little practice 
may be readily found. It is then that they 
should be cut off and burned. Trees in- 
fested with larvie during the early part of 
the year, or those in the immediate vicin- 
ity, are perhaps more likely to be chosen 
by the parent moth for the deposition of 
her eggs, and such trees at least should be 
neglected and unprotected. We would be 
very thankful to you in giving us such ad- 
vice as you think will absolutely cover the 
case. — M. Cem. Assn., Neb. 
As near as we can advise you from the 
facts given in your letter, we should sug- 
gest that all of your lots be sold with per- 
petual care and that your prices be placed 
high enough so that the income would take 
care of every lot forever. 
In addition to this, you should place as 
many of your old lots under perpetual care 
as possible by personal solicitation or ad- 
vertising the advantages of this plan to 
your lot owners. This fund should be 
placed in trust with a trust company or 
board of trustees, so that it could never be 
used for any other purpose than keeping 
the ground in condition. 
As to just how this is done would de- 
pend on the laws of your state governing 
this matter, and you should consult other 
cemetery officials in your state who have 
had experience in administering cemetery 
trust funds. 
It will be advisable for you to have a 
report on your proposition from an ex- 
pert landscape architect who has made a 
specialty of developing and managing cem- 
eteries, and any of the landscape architects 
who advertise this service in Park and 
Cemetery could give you much assistance. 
Manufacturers of Crematory Retorts. 
We would very much appreciate it if you 
could give us a list of people manufactur- 
ing crematory retorts. Thanking you for 
any information you may give us along this 
line.— I. M. C, 111. 
The Jarvis Engineering Co., 61 Oliver 
street, Boston, is the leading manufacturer 
of crematory retorts and builder of crema- 
tories. 
searched if it is not practicable to extend 
the work to the orchard as a whole. This 
work may be combined with pruning to 
good advantage and a lookout should be 
kept not only for the eggs of this insect, 
but for the eggs and cocoons of other in- 
jurious species which pass the winter on 
the trees. 
When ill convenient reach, the nests may 
be torn out with a brush, with gloved hand 
or otherwise, and the larvae crushed on 
the ground, care being taken to destroy any 
caterpillars which may have remained on 
the tree. 
The use of a torch to burn out the 
nests will often be found convenient, espe- 
cially when these occur in the higher parts 
of trees. An asbestos torch, such as is 
advertised by seedsmen, will be satisfactory, 
or one may be made simply by tying rags 
to the end of a pole. The asbestos or rags 
are saturated with kerosene and lighted 
and the caterpillars as far as possible cre- 
mated. Some caterpillars, however, are 
likely to escape, falling from the nest upon 
FIGHTING TWO COMMON TREE PESTS 
