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amount of useful information through 
bulletins and catalogues to those that 
j'ou reach directly. 
There is need in the promotion of 
the work of civic horticulturis'ts a bet- 
ter class of material for plantations. 
We need pedigree trees of various 
species. I need not describe to you 
the numerous forms of the American 
elm. Some with upright trunks and 
branches and a graceful canopy of 
foliage form ideal street trees. Others 
are round and symmetrical ; oth- 
ers drooping to the ground. These 
forms of the American elm are not 
cultivated. We only have forms of 
European trees propagated at high 
cost by grafting and offered in small 
quantities. 
We need a'lso the various marked 
forms of the Red Cedar, some very 
narrowly fastigiate, others broad and 
spreading, for our formal gardens. 
Those who know how many of the 
nursery purple beeches and Weir’s 
cut leaf maple are raised from seed 
and who have noted the predomi- 
nance of a special form of native 
trees about the parent will recognize 
the practicability of raising pedigree 
trees. 
More care is needed to secure 
hardy forms of native trees. For ex- 
ample trees of the Douglas spruce 
from the Oregon and California coast 
range are not hardy in the East, 
whereas those from the Rocky Moun- 
tains are. Back walnuts, red buds, 
calycanthus and other Southern 
plants from Southern seed are ten- 
der, whereas seedlings from plants 
The splendid success attending the 
distribution of flower seeds through 
the public schools in the spring has 
encouraged the Civic Improvement 
League of Denison, Tex., to undertake 
a similar work in the interest of trees 
during the winter. Plans have not 
been fully matured, but Secretary T. 
W. Larkin is figuring on the purchase 
of several thousand trees which he 
hopes to buy at a very low figure and 
in a general way the plan will be to 
furnish these trees to the school chil- 
dren at actual cost and to arouse them 
to an understanding of the value of 
trees. About a year ago the Board 
of Trade, of which Mr. Larkin is also 
secretary, and the Civic Improvement 
further north are found quite hardy. 
There is need of a more general 
knowledge of the value of native col- 
lected plants in artificial plantations 
and the success which attends the 
collection of many species if done in 
a proper manner. It opens the way 
for pleasure outings in which the 
family may secure material for the 
decoration of their home grounds and 
wild gardens. When you know that 
practically all the trees, shrubs and 
hardy perennials planted upon these 
Exposition Grounds are natives col- 
lected on or near these grounds, that 
many of the ground cover plants 
were collected in the beginning at the 
cost of thirty cents per thousand, the 
deciduous shrubs, collected and plant- 
ed as low as $20 per thousand, you 
will recognize that the natives may 
fill a place both as regards cost and 
immediate effect that nursery plants 
cannot fill. 
Nurserymen should grow more well 
furnished specimens of shrubs and 
trees, more large .and well trained 
vines, more formally trained shrubs 
and trees for gardens and pots and 
they should recognize that there is a 
growing demand for the healthy vig- 
orous forms that are easily propa- 
gated and can be sold at a low rate 
in large quantities and a declining 
demand for abnormal horticultural 
forms that are difficult to. propagate 
and expensive. 
In closing let me call attention to 
the statement of the morning’s ses- 
sion regarding the need of a greater 
unity bf action of all the various oc- 
cupations represented by this congress. 
League of Denison united in an ef- 
fort to improve civic conditions in 
that busy town and the results have 
been highly gratifying and the effects 
far-reaching. There has been a won- 
derful awakening among the people 
and young and old have been stimu- 
lated to action in the improvement of 
the streets and home grounds. 
Last year Mr. Geo. R. Plimpton, 
proprietor of “Lewis Farm” of Wal- 
pole, Mass., made a gift to his town 
of a beautiful 20 acres tract of land 
to be used for high school purposes. 
A new brick building costing upwards 
of $40,000 is nearly ready for occu- 
pancy, and a field of about acres 
has been graded nearly level for ath- 
letics, the cost of the latter being con- 
tributed by Mr. Chas. S. Bird. The 
town’s superintendent of schools, Mr. 
Kingman, is in hearty sympathy with 
the movement for school gardens and 
more nature studies. 
* * 
Justice John W. Linck, of Ta- 
coma, Wash., recently took militant 
action against some billboards that 
had been erected on vacant propert}' 
owned by him. When the board was 
erected he promptly notified the ad- 
vertising firm to take it away as un- 
sightly. The firm paid no attention 
to his protests and the judge armed 
himself with an ax, cut down the 
board and smashed it to pieces. The 
next day the owners of the board 
carted away the debris. 
if: ^ 
The Street and Sewer Committee of 
Wilmington, Del., has put into effect 
the following ordinance to prevent the 
littering of streets: 
Section 1. If any person shall cast 
or place or cause to be cast or placed 
in any street, highway, lane or alley 
of the city of Wilmington, or on the 
sidev/alks or footways thereof, or up- 
on the porches or steps of any dwell- 
ing or other building within the limits 
of the said city, any paper, advertise- 
ment, handbill, circular or waste pa- 
per, such person or persons shall be 
deemed guilty of a common nuisance 
and shall forfeit and pay a fine not 
exceeding ten dollars nor less than 
two dollars. 
Provided that nothing herein con- 
tained shall be held to apply to the 
distribution of the latest issue of 
newspapers, addressed envelopes, or 
regularly published periodicals. 
Section 2. If any person shall place 
or cause to be placed on any public 
street in this city any ashes, dirt, rub- 
bish, offal or other thing, except, as 
prescribed and allowed by the ordi- 
nances of the city, feuch person or 
persons shall be deemed guilty of a 
common nuisance and shall forfeit and 
pay a fine not exceeding five dollars 
and an additional fine not exceeding 
five dollars for every twenty-four 
hours that such nuisance is continued,, 
provided, that persons in removing an 
article or substance from their prem- 
ises may place the same on the street 
between the curb lines, temporarily,, 
if such article or substance be not of- 
fensive, and shall remove it therefrom 
before night of the same day on 
which it was placed on the street; pro- 
vided further, that this resolution does 
not alter or affect the ordinances con- 
rerning nuisances affecting health. 
iriPROlMTASSOClfflONS 
