58 MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BULLETIN 
Clyde M. Blankenship was born near Springfield, Missouri, 
May 5, 1874, his early youth being spent in Missouri and 
California. He came to the Garden from Berkeley, Cali- 
fornia, in 1892, graduating in 1896. He was very active in 
the Missouri state militia, and during the Spanish-American 
war enlisted in his country’s service. After graduating he 
practiced landscape gardening about one year, and then left 
St. Louis and became interested in civil engineering. After 
serving the Frisco Railroad as a civil engineer for eight years 
he was obliged to give up his work on account of illness, and 
for about a year travelled in Colorado seeking to regain his 
. health. He was married, August 14, 1903, to Alice Dunford. 
After a lingering illness he died in St. Louis, May 9, 1906. 
Homer Riggle was born May 20, 1872, in Washington, 
Pennsylvania. He was the son of Clark and Martha (Dagg) 
Riggle. His early education was received in the public 
schools of Washington, Pennsylvania. In 1890 he was 
awarded the Garden scholarship, and graduated in 1894. 
After leaving the Garden he was employed as a florist in dif- 
ferent parts of Missouri, and was for a time at the Ohio State 
University, Columbus. For about two years he served as 
motor-cycle policeman in Kansas City, and was killed Febru- 
ary 28, 1913, while in the performance of his duties. 
OBSERVATIONS OF A LANDSCAPE GARDENER 
ABROAD 
The landscape gardener abroad will see much of interest in 
every country, but for a study of examples of design which 
might directly affect his practice in America he will find 
England the most valuable. Not only will he be inspired by 
the larger estates but also by the charm of the small villages to 
which every householder contributes—houses covered with 
vines, flowery hedges separating the fields, and fine old trees 
everywhere regarded and preserved. An example of English 
cottage landscaping, as seen at Salisbury, is shown in Plate 12, 
fig. 1. As always, hedge or fence marks the boundary, the 
space between the house and hedge being filled with a variety 
of flowers, and beeches, elms or other trees forming the back- 
ground. Another illustration of good landscape work which 
may be seen at Salisbury is the bishop’s palace, a beautiful 
vine-covered old house surrounded by trees and fronting on 
a lake. Every place with a modest acreage has been well 
planned for attractive and economical use of the ground, the 
influence of English traditions on our own landscape methods 
being easily recognized. 
