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ness" for meeting effectively the problem of 

 rebuilding, along efficient and beautiful lines. 

 Belgian cities wholly or partially destroyed in 

 the present War, and, in the event that, at the 

 close of the War, the said Committee shall 

 have the opportunity to liring this "prepared- 

 ness" to bear, the American Society of Land- 

 scape Architects will do all in its power to aid 

 the said Committee in its great undertaking. 



December 7, 1918. 



Resolved, That the American Society of 

 Landscape .Architects heartily endorses the 

 spirit of the Platform adopted by the National 

 Municipal League Conference on Reconstruc- 

 tion, at Rochester, on November :.'■.'. 1918, fa- 

 voring Government encouragement and super- 

 vision of the proper housing of industrial 

 workers as far as may be consistent with the 

 Constitution of the United States and an en- 

 lightened public opinion. 



December 7, 1918. 



Whereas, The .Architectural League of New 

 York have e.xpressed their willingness to es- 

 tablish a gold medal in Landscape Architec- 

 ture to be offered annually to the most meri- 

 torious work exhibited at their annual exhibi- 

 tion, under conditions to be established by the 

 American Society of Landscape .Architects. 

 and whereas this medal will be identical with 

 the medals m Architecture. Decoration and 

 Sculpture offered annually by the League, be 

 it 



Resolved. That the .American Society of 

 Landscape .Architects welcome this opportuni- 

 ty of promoting the advancement of the art of 

 Landscape Architecture through the helpful 

 competition arising from the establishment of 

 this medal and request the Board of Trustees 

 to formulate the terms of the award and sub- 

 mit them to the Society for approval. 



January It), 1921. 



Whereas, There is great need for a really 

 adequate National Botanic Garden and .Ar- 

 boretum, in which shall be tested and grown 

 living specimens of the great range of woody 

 and herbaceous plants that are or can be made 

 available for use in the United States as their 



qualities come to be accurately known, in 

 which those qualities can be studied as in no 

 other way, by which the identity of plants can 

 be authoritatively determined for the purposes 

 of science, trade and art, and liy means of 

 which the enormously fruitful possibilities of 

 plant breeding and of plant introduction under 

 safe conditions can best be attained; and 



Whereas, The climatic and other conditions 

 of Washington are peculiarly well adapted for 

 a Central Botanic Garden and Arboretum of 

 this sort, — operating in connection with a 

 limited number of sub-stations or affiliated in- 

 stitutions in the extreme climatic zones of the 

 country; and 



Whereas, A Committee of Congress has al- 

 ready had under consideration, in connection 

 with the proposed removal of the inadequate 

 so-called Botanic Garden which has existed for 

 many years near the Capitol, a proposal for 

 the estalilishment of a true National Botanic 

 Garden and Arboretum on a tract in northeast 

 Washington, some 800 acres in extent, occupy- 

 ing in part lowland and marsh owned by the 

 Government along the .Anacostia River, and in 

 part a very diversified upland, including Mount 

 Hamilton, to be acquired for the purpose; an<l 



Whereas, Representatives of the .American 

 Society of Landscape Architects have examined 

 this tract and found it to be admirably adapted 

 to the proposed National Scientific purpose 

 and at the same time a valuable addition to 

 the local park system of the District of Col- 

 umbia. Now, therefore, be it 



Resolved, By the American Society of Land- 

 scape .Architects that Congress be urged to set 

 apart the said tract as a National Botanic 

 Garden and Arboretum and to adopt the most 

 carefully considered means for its administra- 

 tion, on far-seeing, scientific, artistic and prac- 

 tical lines. 



March 8, l<):n. 



Whereas, The communities centering in the 

 District of Columbia and in Baltimore, Mary- 

 land, are giving rise to constantly increasing 

 developments of many kinds in the intervening 

 and surrounding region, and 



Whereas, The welfare of each of tliese great 

 communities and of the many lesser communi- 

 ties of this region is in many ways dependent 



