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HORTICULTURE 



July 17. 1909 



RELICS OF THE SAN FRANCrSCO 

 FIRE. 



An especially difficult feat of land- 

 scape gardening that has taken the 

 time of six men for nearly two weeks, 

 was accomplished by the MacRorie, Mc- 

 Laren Co., when two huge thirty-foot 

 specimen Phoenix canariensis were re- 

 moved from the abandoned residence 

 of H. E. Huntington on the top of Nob 

 Hill, San Francisco, and transported a 

 distance of five hundred miles to his 

 new residence at Los Robles, near San 

 Gabriel, Cal. 



Palm-moving is quite an every-day 

 occurrence in California, but I question 

 whether any have ever been moved 

 such a great distance with so much 



success. The accompanying illustra- 

 tions will give a fairly good idea of 

 the size of the palms. Each palm when 

 boxed weighed eighteen tons, and a 

 string of ten horses was required in 

 order to transport the palms to the 

 railway station, a distance of two 

 miles, through some of the busiest 

 streets in San Francisco. 



The palms figured were also of more 

 than ordinary interest to the citizens 

 of San Francisco, having stood there 

 for over twenty years. In addition to 

 this fact, they might be classed as 

 mo.st interesting relics of the earth- 

 quake-fire of 1906, at which time Mr. 

 Huntington's magnificent residence 

 was destroyed, along with everything 

 in that district. The fire stripped the 

 palms completely of their foliage, leav- 



ing only the bare and blackened stems. 

 Since that time, in the course of three 

 years, fresh growth has been made by 

 them, new well-developed crowns have 

 appeared and they bid fair to become 

 two of the most interesting objects 

 on the Huntington estate. 



The work of removal was under the 

 supervision of D. MacRorie, and from 

 start to finish was done without a 

 hitch. WM. McM. BROWN. 



CIVIC IMPROVEMENT IN CHICAGO. 

 On July 3rd the Commercial Club 

 made public its plans for the enlarge- 

 ment and beautification of the city of 

 Chicago. The work of this club has 



covered a period of thirty months and 

 is submitted in a lC4-page volume, giv- 

 ing detailed plans and pictures of pro- 

 posed changes that will show the new 

 Chicago in a harmony of parks, boule- 

 vards, plazas, public buildings, and per- 

 haps most needed of all. systematized 

 traffic. 



First is the improvement of the lake 

 front by building out into the lake a 

 park and lagoon to run the length of 

 the lake front and the establishment 

 of a big harbor at the river's mouth. 

 Second, the creating of a system of 

 four highways outside the city with 

 cross-roads conveying to the heart of 

 the city like a spider's web. Third, 

 improvement of railway terminals. 

 Fowrth, the acquisition of the long- 

 talked-of outer park system. This pro- 

 vides for the buying up of the natural 

 forests surrounding Chicago on three 

 sides. Fifth, refers to the more sys- 

 tematic arrangement of the streets; 

 and sixth, to the centers of intellectual 

 life and civic administration. As the 

 club realizes, the first step now is to 

 educaJ^p the people up to it Tlie pro- 

 posed changes are illustrated by a se- 

 ries of paintings, drawings and de- 

 signs exhibited in the Art Institute 

 and opened to the public, July 12th. 

 These are the original paintings by 

 Jules Guerin, Ferdinand Janin and 

 other artists, and the photographs are 

 of the beauty spots of otber cities. 



This movement has been under way 

 ever since the World's Fair, and the 

 long struggle for the improvement of 

 the city will be appreciated by people 

 all over the country. 



Louisiana, Mo. — Stark Bros. Nurser- 

 ies & Orchards Co. have elected A. E. 

 Senteny secretary, to succeed the late 

 Hon. Eugene Stark; Eugene Duncan, 

 director; and William, son of W. P. 

 Stark, assistant treasurer. 



THE SECOND NATIONAL APPLE 

 SHOW. 



Widespread as was the interest in 

 the first national apple show last win- 

 ter, when growers from various dis- 

 t'icts in the Northwest and South and 

 other parts of the continent exhibited 

 their choicest fruit in competitions, 

 ranging from a full car of 640 boxes 

 to a single apple, there are already 

 many indications that the second ex- 

 position, planned for the week of De- 

 cember 6 at the state armory In Spo- 

 kane, will bring even greater results 

 in popularizing the apple as a national 

 fruit and food. 



Ren H. EiCE 



Sci'.v M'a'r of Natioual Apple Show, 1909. 



The board of trustees, headed by 

 E. F. Cartier Van Dissel, has plans 

 in hand which will give more room 

 than was allotted last year, when 75,- 

 000 square feet of floor space was 

 filled to overflowing, making it neces- 

 sary to refuse exhibits after the open- 

 ing day, as no additional room could 

 be prepared to accommodate them. 



Tlie original organization, headed by 

 Louie W. Hill of St. Paul, president 

 of the Great Northern Railway Com- 

 pany, has been maintained with two 

 changes in the executive board. Harry 

 J. Neely becomes first vice-president, 

 succeeding L. F. Williams, retired, 

 and Ren H. Rice succeeds Mr. Neely 

 as secretary-manager, with headquar- 

 ters in room 216 of the Hutton build- 

 ing, Spokane, where a staff is already 

 at work preparing for the coming 

 show. 



"The show will be complete in every 

 detail,'' said Secretary Rice in making 

 the preliminary announcement, "and 

 advices already to hand indicate that 

 we shall have even a greater variety 

 of exhibits than in 1908." 



Miivlus Large Palms. 



Denver, Colo. — Albert E. Mauff has 

 fili'd a complaint against the State 

 Horticultural Board charging that 

 Mrs. Martha Shute is drawing the 

 salary of secretary while another per- 

 son holds the appointment. 



