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PHOTO BY BROWN, RIVERSIDE 
A DRIA/iliWAY IN RIVERSIDE, CAL. 
ber of street trees in any city in the 
country approximating the size of 
Riverside, and is exceeded in very 
few of the much larger cities. 
Under the control of the new board 
of Park Commissioners street tree 
planting will go on more systematic- 
ally and rapidly than ever before, un- 
til all vacancies on the old streets are 
filled, and newly laid out streets are 
promptly planted, thereby securing 
uniformity. 
Mr. Reed, the Tree Warden, writes 
as follows of this work: “The view 
of Chestnut street is a fair sample of 
our common shaded residence streets. 
Our aim has been to beautify our city 
as a whole rather than to secure show 
parts, and. we have not many bare 
streets left. The frontage photo is 
of one of the older planted streets. 
Since our systematic planting com- 
menced, we are producing an en- 
tirely different type of pepper tree, 
(the most favorite shade tree with 
us). The pepper is a biddable tree 
and easily trained to a straight stem 
and shapely top, if intelligently han- 
dled from the first. 
“Until three years ago, our street 
tree planting and care was for the 
most part left to the abutting prop- 
erty owners. Each followed his own 
taste and convenience as to varieties, 
etc., with the usual unfortunate re- 
sults of unintelligent or unsystematic 
work. About that time the city au- 
thorities were persuaded to create the 
office of Tree Warden — and the street 
trees were placed in his care. But he 
had no control over planting, nor 
could the city appropriate funds for 
planting. Our Chamber of Commerce 
interested itself and raised a fund for 
planting, which it placed in the hands 
of the Tree Warden. By some spe- 
cial effort interest was aroused and 
property owners quite generally con- 
sented to the Tree Warden’s advice 
as to planting, and uniform planting 
was gradually secured, some sixty 
blocks having been lined with uniform 
varieties during the planting season 
just closed. The public sentiment fa- 
voring systematic street tree planting 
and care, enabled us to have embodied 
in a new charter just adopted, the 
right of the city to control all street 
tree management, including planting. 
While to secure permanent success, 
this authority will need to be judi- 
ciously used, since public sentiment 
must be behind all such movements, I 
am convinced that the ornamentation 
of our American cities will never be 
satisfactory till the tree margins are 
as effectively under the control of a 
city official as are the roadbeds and 
sidewalks of all of the city’s streets. 
“In securing this the lack of suita- 
bly trained men available for Tree 
Wardens or Foresters will prove a 
serious obstacle. In a recent tour 
through the middle west and eastern 
cities for the purpose of studying 
parks and street ornamentation, I was 
much surprised to find so few towns 
with satisfactory street tree supervi- 
sion. The lack of available trained 
men doubtless has much to do with 
this condition. It seems to me that 
the importance of street tree manage- 
ment in our rapidly growing towns 
would justify a department for spe- 
cial training for this purpose, in some 
of our colleges and universities. The 
The eighteenth annual banquet giv- 
en by the trustees of the Missouri 
Botanical Garden, under the will of 
Henry Shaw, to the Gardeners, Flor- 
ists and Nurserymen of St. Louis, was 
held August 14 at the Southern Ho- 
tel. In addition to the guests from 
the Garden, and prominent gardeners 
and florists, were many of the mem- 
bers of the “American Apple Grow- 
ers’ Congress,” who were special 
guests. The banquet opened at 8 p. 
m. with over 150 persons at the ta- 
bles. At the close of the dinner the 
speakers of the evening were intro- 
training in ordinary forestry as pro- 
vided for in one or two institutions, 
does not meet the needs. In the 
meantime I see no better way to 
meet the demands than for patriotic, 
public-spirited citizens, with some fit- 
ness for the work, to give time and 
effort to systematic beautifying of 
their home towns, even at the expense 
of their money making or other oc- 
cupations. I’m sure it would be as 
creditable to be the means of secur- 
ing a permanent foundation for beau- 
tifying a young growing city, by gen- 
eral and suitable street parkings, as 
to leave to it money for an expens- 
ive monument, or grand memorial 
building.” 
duced by Dr. William Trelease, Di- 
rector of the Missouri Botanical Gar- 
den. H. M. Dunlap of Illinois, Presi- 
dent of the American Apple Growers 
Congress, talked on the subject, “The 
Practical IVjan,” giving an outline of 
the work of the American Apple 
Growers Congress. The chairman 
called on P. C. Scanlan, Park Com- 
missioner of St. Louis, who spoke of 
the value of parks to a large city, in 
response to a toast, “The Park and 
the Citizen.” “Gardening as a Study” 
was responded to by Walther Retcher 
(Continued on page VIIO 
THE SHAW BANQUET IN ST. LOUIS 
