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THE GARDENERS' CHRONICLE OF AMERICA. 



AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PARK SUPERINTENDENTS 



OFFICIAL 

 G. X. AMRHYN, Pres., New Haven, Conn. 



COMMUNICATIONS. 

 R. W. COTTERILL, Sec.-Treas., Seattle, Washington. 



ASSOCIATION NOTES. 



With committees apijointed as announced in last issue, arrange- 

 ments are well muler way for our annual convention in San 

 Francisco, August IS. 



Herman ilerkel, chairman of the transportation committee, is a 

 live wire when he gets to work and he is determined to make the 

 special party a success, and indications are that the attendance at 

 this year's convention will break all records. N'arious cities 

 along the route are already at work on plans for entertainment 

 and the trip will simply be one continual round of pleasure and 

 instruction. Secretary Cotterill is planning to go to San Francisco 

 in .June and confer with Chairman McLaren, of the Convention 

 Committee, and the local committee at San Francisco, regarding 

 details of all arrangements, program, halls, hotels, tours, etc., so 

 that complete detailed information can be sent to all members by 

 July 1 at latest. 



There are a few members wlio have not as yet paid their dues 

 for the current year, and the secretary wishes to urge these mem- 

 bers to remit at once, so that we may have funds in hand to 

 carry forward our work without going in debt. It costs no more 

 to pay dues now than to pay them at the convention, and it will 

 avoid the accumulation of unpaid bills as has been the custom 

 heretofore. The Association right now does not owe a cent, and 

 your officers are anxious to keep it in this condition. If you are 

 one of tlie delinquents, send in a check right now. 



Tlie Association needs more members in order to provide suffi- 

 cient funds to properly carry on its work, and members are 

 urged to bear this in mind and secure as many new members as 

 possible for the San Francisco session. There are surely men 

 in your section of the country eligible for membership in the 

 Association. Talk to them, write to them, or send names and 

 addresses to the secretary, and he will correspond with them, 

 send ajjplication blanks and extend convention invitation, etc. 

 The secretary promises to help on any prospects forwarded and 

 himself will have five applications for membership at the next 

 session. Who will do the same? 



Through our member. L. P. Jenson, superintendent of Grounds 

 at Busch Place, at St. Louis, an invitation has been extended to 

 our Association, in connection with its San Francisco convention, 

 to visit Busch Gardens, at Pasadena, near Los Angeles. The 

 Busch sunken gardens and parks have a national reputation and 

 the invitation should be taken advantage of. 



PARK DEPARTMENT PERSONALS 



Dwight P. Davis, who recently retired as Commissioner of 

 Parks of St. Louis, after many j'ears of efficient service, was 

 tendered a farewell banquet by 300 members of the St. Louis Park 

 Department Employes Association. 



A "Smoker" followed the dinner, speeches eulogizing the work of 

 Mr. Davis were made by various city officials, and a beautiful 

 bound volume testimonial, setting forth the innovations and im- 

 provements introduced by Mr. Davis, was presented to him by his 

 employes. 



Jlr. Davis will be succeeded bv Mr. Nelson Cunliffe. 



Frank Brnbeck. formerly superintendent at Terre Haute. In- 

 diana, who lost out on account of political changes and entered 

 the U. S. Revenue Service, has received a promotion to the posi- 

 tion of General Travelling Deputy for the states of Indiana and 

 Michigan. Mr. Brnbeck, however still has hopes of returning to 

 park work, and is merely awaiting the right opportunity, 



John D. McEwen, superintendent of Queens Borough Park De- 

 partment, New York, has been nominated for membership in the 

 Association by Frank Hamilton, of Bronx Park Department. 

 Mr. McEwen and his wife are planning to attend the San Fran- 

 cisco convention. 



Chas. G. Carpenter, superintendent at Milwaukee, and for many 

 years one of our most active members, it seems, has been confined 

 to his home seriously ill since last July, but hopes to resume his 



duties in the near future, his place having been held open for him 

 by the Milwaukee Park Board. 



This belated information comes to the secretary from an in- 

 direct- source, and explains why Mr. Carpenter was not with us 

 at the New York convention. 



Herman H. Beyer, formerly an active member of the Associa- 

 tion, while superintendent at South Bend, Indiana, is now located 

 at ilichigan City, Indiana, where he serves as superintendent of 

 parks and is also in business as a landscape architect. Mr. Beyer 

 will probably attend the August convention, and affiliate again 

 with the Association. 



Emil T. Mische, of Portland, Oregon, and one of the "war 

 horses'' of the Association, is so pleased over the convention 

 coming to the Pacific Coast that he promises to have five new 

 members for the convention. This is the right spirit, as we 

 eertainlv should have more members. 



The annual report of R. Brooke Maxwell, City Forester of 

 Baltimore, and a member of our Association, is an interesting 

 document. Baltimore is handling the street tree problem in a 

 practical way, a feature which is. unfortmiately. not given the 

 a.teiition it deserves by most cities. 



The writer visited Baltimore last August, and was much im- 

 pressed with the beautiful planting and floral display in street 

 parkings and squares, which excelled those of any other of ten or 

 twelve cities visited. 



Messrs. Manning and JIaxwell have produced results which are 

 a credit to Baltimore and a shining example to other cities. 



"Parks and Parkways of Bronx Borough,'" is the title of a 

 booklet recently issued by the Bronx Board of Trade, and in the 

 judgment of the writer, it is the best publication yet sent out 

 from the metropolis, on the subject of New York park administra- 

 tion. The usual official New York publications are massive docu- 

 ments, with extensive detail and a mass of statistics, but this 

 little booklet is quite compact, is attractively arranged and 

 illustrated, and contains more valuable information, both from 

 the standpoint of the local citizen or the outside observer, than 

 all other publications combined. It is rather unique in that it is 

 evidently issued by a commercial organization, yet it contains 

 just the sort of information one should find in an official report. 

 If .you received a copy look it over carefully and you will find 

 that it is out of the ordinary and is the finest kind of a model for 

 a comprehensive and useful annual report. If you do not get one. 

 send to the Bronx Board of Trade and get this valuable booklet 

 for vour files. 



Members from the eastern and middle w-estern states who con- 

 template attending the summer meeting at San Francisco in 

 August, should place themselves in communication with Mr. 

 Herman Merkel. so that he can give them full particulars and 

 inforniatinn on the plans of the California party, which will leave 

 New York on August 5. Chicago 6. An itinerary of the trip, 

 giving full details of the route, cities to be visited, rates, etc.. is 

 now in the printers' hands, and will be ready for distribution in 

 a. few da vs. 



POSTPONING THE FLOWERING OF SHRUBS. 



Since the use of the cold storage houses has become a feature 

 with so many nirrserymen. it has opened a way to havini; shrubs 

 in flower at seasons differing from their natural one. which often 

 is desirable. Many florists in cities have calls for cut (lowers in 

 summer which are quite out of season, but which late planting 

 makes feasible. Hydrangeas, both panieulata grandiflora and 

 arborescens grandiflora, represent two such shrubs, their large 

 panicles of flowers being so useful to the florist. When in cold 

 storage or even when heeled in in a cool place outdoors, their 

 planting can be delayed a long time, and a delay of a month or so 

 in planting in spring brings them in flower that much later in 

 summer. Though the practice is not- yet general, there are many 

 who follow it, and much to their profit. Besides the hydrangeas 

 there are other shrubs that could be used, and even putting aside 

 the commercial view of this late planting, many a gardener 

 would give much pleasure to his employer by so managing some 

 of his shrubs to have them in bloom at a desirable time. 



