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the surroundings of their schools the means of forming 
correct tastes at the period when the mind is most impres- 
sionable. I do not need to say that I refer to Professor M. 
G. Kern, who has kindly consented to respond to the sen- 
timent ‘‘ the landscape gardener,’’ and whom I have much 
pleasure in introducing to you. 
MR. KERN. 
Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen: It gives me a great 
deal of pleasure to respond to the honorable mention of 
landscape gardening, a profession and an art to which I 
have devoted many of the most active years of my life. 
All of you gentlemen present here know how much Mr. 
Shaw has done for horticulture, but I would especially call 
your attention to his assistance and to his influence and to 
his noble offer to St. Louis of Tower Grove Park. He 
made that offer at a time when a certain popular indiffer- 
ence prevented the inauguration of such park improvements 
as a city of the size of St. Louis and of the importance of 
St. Louis demanded. At that time Mr. Shaw came for- 
ward with his most liberal offer of the site of Tower Grove 
Park. This very offer of his and his influence have paved 
the way to that system of public parks and prospective 
boulevards which we have at the present day. The sylvan 
beauties of Tower Grove Park, together with the attrac- 
tions of the Garden, are truly a most noble object lesson 
for the generation in which Mr. Shaw lived, and a really 
blessed message to a coming century. 
As for landscape gardening, I would wish to say that the 
art which has created all the ornamental grounds of modern 
times is commonly called landscape gardening. It is a 
compound of horticulture, of architecture, and of civil en- 
gineering. In consequence, we have a variety of land- 
scape gardeners ;— landscape architects, landscape engineers 
and landscape gardeners; —but no matter under what 
