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TRAXSACTIOXS OF THE AMKRICAN SOCIETY 



leaf, Lowrie, F. L. Olmsted, Parker, Pilat, 

 Pitkin, Taylor, Tealdi, Vitale, Weinrichter, 

 Wiselticr, 



Annual reports of the secretary and treas- 

 urer and the report of the auditors were sub- 

 mitted, accepted and ordered mailed to the 

 members. The treasurer's report showed that 

 the society's accounts are in a satisfactory 

 condition. 



President Olmsted submitted to the meeting 

 a summary of the various committee reports 

 for discussion so far as time permitted, these 

 reports have been studied, discussed and ac- 

 cepted by the Board of Trustees during their 

 session preceding the annual meeting. Re- 

 port of the Examining Board, James L. Green- 

 leaf, chairman, emphasized the necessity for 

 the proposer of a new member to familiarize 

 himself with the full requirements for member- 

 ship before making the proposal. Application 

 blanks will be sent only to members of the 

 society, and the proposer and seconder of a 

 new member will be made responsible for the 

 adequacy of the statements contained in the 

 proposal. The Examining Board has been 

 considerably handicapped in its work by the 

 difficulty encountered in obtaining necessary 

 information from the members relative to the 

 candidate and his work. 



The report of the Committee on Relations 

 with Trades, James F. Dawson, chairman, em- 

 bodied certain proposed changes affecting the 

 former "Statement of Obligations." etc., for- 

 warded to the members for a mail ballot vote 

 of approval, and also a resolution in regard to 

 Federal Plant Quarantine. Mr. Vitale, former 

 chairman of this committee, pointed out that 

 in the earlier negotiations with the nursery- 

 men, relative to this matter, it was shown that 

 of the nursery business as a whole, about ten 

 per cent, comes to the nurseryman from the 

 landscape architect, ninety per cent, from other 

 sources. There is a feeling among the nursery- 

 men that after their bills have been approved 

 by the landscape architect they should be al- 

 lowed to get in touch with the client and col- 

 lect the bill direct. Mr. Greenleaf asked if, 

 when a landscape architect sends his approval 

 of a nursery bill, the nurseryman should be 

 notified. The answer was yes, and it is so pro- 

 vided in the "Statement of Obligations," etc. 

 agreed upon with the nurserymen. 



The report of the Committee on Profession- 

 al Registration, F. L. Olmsted, chairman, ex- 

 plained that there is a rather wide-spread 

 nervousness as to the effect on landscape archi- 

 tects of state registration of engineers and 



architects now pending in many states. The 

 committee felt, however, that the previous 

 stand of the A. S. L. A. against state regis- 

 tration for landscape architects should be ad- 

 hered to. The president stated that a land- 

 scape architect who is really a competent 

 architect, in the ordinary sense of the term, 

 might of course register properly as an archi- 

 tect; but that a landscape architect who is not 

 also a good designer of buildings ought not to 

 register as an architect unless we want to 

 l)reak down all distinction between the two 

 professions; and that it is certainly undesir- 

 able to confine the legal practice of landscape 

 architecture to those who can secure regis- 

 tration as "architects" from a board of archi- 

 tectural examiners; that if a joint board of 

 examiners were appointed by the state, there 

 would be almost a certainty of the other pro- 

 fessions predominating in the personnel of the 

 board and thus work injury to the profession. 

 Moreover, even if the qualifications of land- 

 scape architects for registration were to be 

 determined by the landscape architect mem- 

 bers of the joint board or by a separate Board 

 of Landscape Architects, there are not enough 

 competent landscape architects available in 

 most states to make such a method workable. 

 He also stated that the ordinary practice of 

 landscape architecture does not involve suffi- 

 cient danger to life, health or property to justi- 

 fy the regulation of the profession under the 

 police power of the state. 



Report of the Committee on Publicity, Phelps 

 Wyman, chairman, was read by the president. 

 The report dwelt at length on the question of 

 advertising in magazines. The general opinion 

 of those present seemed to be that group ad- 

 vertising as outlined in the report of the com- 

 mittee would not be worth attempting. 



Chapter reports were presented by the presi- 

 dent in summary, and certain passages of the 

 report of the Pacific Coast Chapter were read 

 in full. 



Report of the Committee to Co-operate with 

 the Comite Neerlando-Belge d'Art Civique, 

 Stephen Child, chairman, was read. Reference 

 was made to the very interesting and very long 

 report of this committee giving an account of 

 the chairman's work and observations during 

 his mission to Belgium, undertaken at his own 

 expense during the summer of 1920 to collab- 

 orate with those engaged in reconstruction and 

 especially in town planning in Belgium. Time 

 did not permit submission of the full report. 



National Botanic Garden and .\rboretum: A 

 resolution approved by the Board of Trustees 



