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with a violin and bow strung with 
ribbon over a rustic wood support 
near a sheet of music, entitled “Roses 
Bring Dreams of You.” Besides the 
usual flowers displayed, the section 
given over to roses was one of great 
merit. One especially was designed 
as an enclosed rose garden with 
graveled walks leading about the 
beds. Inside a well designed fence, over 
which the roses climbed in a natural 
manner, and at the rear a rose arbor 
displayed to advantage the various 
climbing types. In another section 
the kinds of roses commonly used 
by landscape architects, such as Lady 
Gay, Dorothy Perkins, Hiawatha, 
etc., trained in a trellis in large pots, 
displayed the, power the expert has 
with the aid of a hothouse over the 
summer blooming plants and the 
natural order of nature. 
Entering the grand hall, one passed 
through the evergreens massed 
about the outside of the hall to give 
a background for the exhibits. The 
arrangement of the whole floor space 
was in the form of a formal garden 
with the walks of gravel over which 
the visitor walked in imitation of the 
real garden. To give a little variety to 
the scene a windmill in action was 
placed upon the platform and the 
various plants arranged about to form 
a Dutch garden idea. 
As an entrance to the garden on 
one side was a thatched roofed gate- 
way and adjoining a little tiled roofed 
tea house in a bed of conifers; on 
the other side a rustic arbor and 
trellis was arranged that the way- 
farer might rest awhile and contem- 
plate the beauties of the scene. In 
this hall the decorations also of the 
previous show gave added charm to 
the exhibit. 
One of the best features of the show 
was an illustrated lecture given by a 
man thoroughly in line with his sub- 
ject, Mr. John Dunbar, of Rochester, 
N. Y., upon “Trees, Shrubs and Flow- 
ering Plants.” In his talk many of 
the beauties of flowering plants were 
illustrated that were found to be 
perfectly hardy in the northern range 
of states of this country — many that 
were not cultivated or placed upon 
the market by nurserymen. The col- 
lection of native Hawthornes was in- 
teresting, in that many forms and 
species have been discovered and 
brought into proper keeping in both 
the arboretum at Highland Park, 
Rochester, of -which Mr. Dunbar is 
the director, or in the Arnold Ar- 
I'oretum of Boston, and found to be 
both hardy and very ornamental. 
The lumiere colored slides loaned 
by a friend of Mr. Dunbar’s for the 
lecture showed perfectly the colors 
of azealeas and rhododendron in full 
bloom. This is a field of photography 
that will give the most careful rep- 
re<: ntation of the color and character- 
istics of the flowers far superior to any 
that can be painted by hand. The 
National Flower Show has been such 
a success that it is proposed to hold 
another three years hence, in 1914. 
Other cities will need to strive to 
surpass this exhibition from all points 
of view. Herbert J. Kellaway. 
A REPORT ON AMERICAN CITY PLANNING 
We have frequently noted in these pages the rapid 
growth of the new science of city planning and have re- 
viewed from time to time the handsome and compre- 
hensive city plan reports that have been prepared by a 
number of men who have become known as experts in 
this line of work. The growing demand for definite in- 
formation and literature on this subject has led Mr. 
Edward J. Parker, of Quincy, 111., president of the Illinois 
Outdoor Improvement Association, to collect as much 
information as was available from many sources in re- 
sponse to a request from a Chamber of Commerce that 
was contemplating the inauguration of a movement for 
a civic center which is generally one of the chief features 
of the city plan. 
accordance with plans made by me. The post office, public library, 
coliseum and city hall are already grouped on the river front. 
As to civic centers in other cities, you are familiar, of course, 
with the Cleveland project, and with that of Springfield, Massa- 
chusetts. In Providence, as you also doubtless know, a pretty good 
civic center has already been realized. Olmsted and Brunner have 
recently made plans for one In Baltimore, but I do not know with 
what chances of realization. 
The American Civic Association has also given con- 
siderable attention to this subject and at the last con- 
vention of this organization an entire day was devoted 
to the subject of city planning. The association has a 
limited supply of some of the city plan reports that have 
been published and will send information and prices of 
those that may be had from the secretary, Richard B. 
Watrous, Union Trust building, Washington, D. C. 
We have reviewed in these pages a number of fine city 
plan reports by Mr. Charles Mulford Robinson, of Roch- 
ester, N. Y., and Mr. John Nolen, of Cambridge, Mass., 
who have probably done more work of this nature than 
any other men in this country. Mr. Robinson, in his let- 
ter to Mr. Parker, writes as follows as to the steps that 
have geen taken to carry out his recommendations in 
cities for which he has prepared reports; 
Denver — The civic center project has been formally approved by 
action of the people and officials, and Is now in the first stage of 
realization. A full account of this is given in the May number of 
“'The American City” magazine. 
Los Angeles — The city has purchased as a site for its new city 
hall most of the land which I recommended for that purpose in 
order to consummate grouping of the public buildings. 
Honolulu — A very vigorous campaign to locate the new post office 
on the site I proposed in order to group the buildings in a civic 
center has recently failed. 
Cedar Rapids, Iowa — The city, in accordance with my suggestion, 
has sold its old city hall and has purchased a neglected island In 
the river where a temporary city hall is already in use. All this 
Is in accordance with my recommendations for the creation of a 
civic center on the island. 
Des Moines — A civic center is exceptionally far advanced here, in 
Mr. John Nolen furnishes the following list of the cities 
for which he has prepared reports and also an approxi- 
mately complete list of other cities that have had reports: 
BOOKS AND REPORTS BY JOHN NOLEN. 
Harvard Square, Cambridge, Massachusetts. 
“Remodeling Roanoke.” 97 pp. Illustrated. Boards 1907. 
Price, $1.00 net. 
“San Diego: A Comprehensive Plan for its Improvement.” 109 pp. 
Illustrated. Boards 1908. Price, $1.00 net. 
“State Parks for Wisconsin.” 94 pp. Illustrated. Cloth 1909. 
Price, $1.00 net. 
“Replanning Reading: An Industrial City of a Hundred Thou- 
sand.” 100 pp. Illustrated. Board 1910. Price, $1.00 net. 
“Montclair: The Preservation of Its Natural Beauty and Its Im- 
provement as a Residence Town.” 101 pp. Illustrated. Boards. 
Price, $1.25. 
“Plan for the Borough of Glen Ridge.” 45 pp. Illustrated. Paper 
1910. Price, 50 cents net, 
“Madison, a Model City.” (In preparation.) 
“Repton’s Art of Landscape Gardening.’ 275 pp. Illustrated. 
Boards. Price, $3.00 net. 
Copies can be had through booksellers or from the American Civic 
Association, Union Trust Building, Washington, D. C. 
