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268 MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY 
PARK AND OUT-DOOR ART ASSOCIATION. 
(Report of Annual Meeting.) 
F. H. NUTTER, MINNEAPOLIS. 
The second annual meeting of The Park and Out-Door Art Asso- 
ciation was held in Minneapolis June 22nd to 25th, 1898, most of the 
sessions being held at the West Hotel. The attendance was gratify- 
ing to those interested in the welfare of the society, and different 
sections of the country were well represented, members being pres- 
ent from Boston, New York, Cleveland, Detroit, Chicago, Omaha; 
Kansas City, New Orleans, and many other of the principal cities 
and towns, with, of course,a numerous delegation from the “Twin 
Cities.” 
In the absence of the president, John B. Castleman, of Louisville, 
Ky.,who is nowin active service in the army,the meetings were 
most pleasantly presided over by Vice-President L. E. Holden, of 
Cleveland, Ohio, while the secretary and treasurer, Warren H. Man- 
ning, of Boston, was untiring in his efforts for the success of the 
meetings. It is pleasant to note that the labors of these officers, not 
only during the convention but also through the year just past, in 
inaugurating the society on so firm a foundation, were fully appreci- 
ated and recognized by those present. 
The firstsession convened at 10a m. on Wednesday, when our vis- 
itors were formally welcomed by Mayor Pratt, of Minneapolis, ina 
few earnest words in recognition of the part that their work hadin 
improving the conditions of our cities and homes, to which the 
chairman fittingly responded. 
The papers presented at this first day’s sessions were as follows: 
“Playgrounds and Public Squares,” by Pres. W. W. Folwell, of the 
Minneapolis Park Commissioners, in which he treated principally 
the first division of his subject, setting forth the important part that 
association with nature and an opportunity for proper out-door 
exercise had in developing not only the physical but also the men- 
tal and moral characters of our children and youth. 
“ Appreciation of Natural Beauty,” by O. C. Simonds, of Chicago, 
Ill., and “Suburban Home Grounds,” by Chas. N. Lowrie, of New 
York, proved that the landscape architects of today are not the blind 
devotees of the artificial that many of the self-claimed admirers of 
nature would have us believe, but in reality, doubtless, have a 
deeper appreciation of the true beauties of nature than many of their 
detractors. 
At4p. m, chartered cars took the visitors and their hosts to Min- 
nehaha, where some time was spent in viewing the falls and wan- 
dering through the glens and woods. 
The evening session was held at the Unitarian Church, and was to 
acertain extent under the auspices of the Ladies’ Improvement 
League of Minneapolis. Mrs. Robert Pratt read a paper setting 
forth the past successful work of the league, which was followed by 
a paper on “The Influence of Parks on the Character of Children,” 
prepared by the veteran landscape gardener, H. W.S. Cleveland, and 
read by his life long friend, Hon. C. M. Loring. A letter from the sec- 
