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TRANSACTIONS OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY 



pecially because they usually impair the 

 amenity of the district in which they occur. 



15. Policy No. 5— The A. S. L. A. believes 

 that additions should be made to the number 

 of our National and State Parks as oppor- 

 tunity arises, with the object of preserving 

 examples of our most characteristic, rare and 

 rapidly decreasing natural scenery against en- 

 croachment by economic forces. 



The report of the E.xamining Board was 

 read and approved, as was also the report of 

 the Committee on Exhibitions and of the 

 standing Committee on Professional Practice 

 and Ethics, Mr. Taylor announced that the 

 statement had been mailed to all members and 

 that the committee would welcome any sug- 

 gestions for its improvement. Various other 

 committee reports were read and accepted, and 

 the president presented one from the Standing 

 Committee on Relations with Trades, which 

 included (1) copy of the report of the meeting 

 of the Joint Committee, January 24, 1919, (2) 

 copy of the statement "Obligations Which 

 are Normally Implied by the Placing and Ac- 

 ceptance of an Order," etc., (3) copy of form- 

 al agreements covering issuance of nursery 

 stock. A discussion of the fundamental points 

 involved in this report was asked for by the 

 president. Mr. Dawson stated that in his 

 opinion thirty days was too short a period af- 

 ter the receipt of nursery stock for the ap- 

 proval of nursery bills, and Mr. Lay agreed 

 with him. Mr. Dawson thought that under 

 no circumstances should nurserymen take up 

 the matter of payment directly with the clients. 

 Mr. Leavitt stated that on all orders from his 

 office there is a printed statement that the or- 

 der is made for the client and on his credit 

 and that the order is given with the under- 

 standing that the price was the lowest that 

 the nursery receiving the order would quote 

 to anyone. Mr. Taylor explained that he ac- 

 companied all approved bills with a letter 

 stating that all further business should be be- 

 tween the nurserymen and the client. A vote 

 of the members present was taken which 

 showed that twelve members felt that thirty 

 days was too short a period to allow for pay- 

 ing nursery bills while eight considered it 

 long enough. Mr. Hubbard proposed that 

 nurserymen should notify the landscape archi- 

 tect when they wished to take up the matter 

 of the bill direct with the client. 



The report of the Standing Committee on 

 Town Planning and Industrial Housing was 

 read and the president stated that a copy of 

 this report would be mailed to all members. 



Mr. Caparn, chairman of the Special Commit- 

 tee on Policies, proposed the following new 

 policies to be formulated and considered, 1. 

 Town Planning and Housing, 2. War Me- 

 morials, 3. State and City Art Commissions. 

 It was the sense of the meeting that the above 

 policies should be prepared for the considera- 

 tion of the members. Mr. T. Glenn Phillips 

 reported that during the past three years $600 

 has been subscribed by the members to defray 

 the society debt which amounted to $300 and 

 a rising vote of thanks was taken in apprecia- 

 tion of Mr. Phillips' efficient work. The 

 treasurer's report was presented in summarized 

 form for each year, 1913-1920. Mr. F. L. Olm- 

 sted reported orally for the Committee on 

 Plant Nomenclature, stating that the joint 

 committee had not met during the past year, 

 but the sub-committee had been very busy 

 and was planning to meet in Washington for 

 one week in the near future. He added that 

 the new report would include all herbacious 

 plants, as listed in the principal nursery cata- 

 logues. The incidental expenses of this work 

 had been met by funds contributed by the 

 constitutent organizations, excepting the A. S. 

 L. A.; it will be necessary to raise a substantial 

 fund to print the report, this brought up the 

 question of selling advertisement space to a 

 representative list of nurserymen. A vote of 

 those present on this question showed thir- 

 teen in favor and three opposed. 



President Olmsted announced in reference 

 to the Fellowship in Rome, that the Board of 

 Trustees had voted to authorize the chairman 

 of the Standing Committee on Education to 

 recommend the extension of Mr. Lawson's 

 term for six months. It was also voted to 

 authorize sending a second Fellow to Rome, 

 his term to begin October, 1920, and to enter 

 into a formal agreement with the trustees of 

 the .Academy regarding the second Fellowship. 



Mr. Taylor, chairman of the Committee on 

 A. S. L. A. Annuary announced that he had 

 obtained an estimate of $750 to print 100 

 copies of a report of 112 pages, modeled after 

 the A. I. A. Annual. 



Dinner Session. Present: Mrs. Farrand, 

 Messrs. Blossom, Brinckcrhoff, Caparn, Child. 

 Chamberlain, Clarke, Dawson, Desmond, El- 

 wood, Fleming, Gay, Geiflfert, Greenleaf, Hub- 

 bard, Lay, Manning, F. L. Olmsted, Pilat, 

 Saltus, Taylor, Vitale, Wheelwright. Guests 

 of the society: Mr. Burt L. Fenner, Mr. D. 

 Everett Waid, Mr. Alfred D. Flinn; of mem- 

 bers: E. Gorton Davis, F. A. Davis. 



After dinner F. L. Olmsted, who presided, 



