PARK AND CEMETERY 
AND LANDSCAPE GARDENING. 
Vol. XXI Chicago, May, 1911 No. 3 
The Late Boston Flower Show 
The very successful second National Flower Show, re- 
cently held at Boston, Mass., has given rise to the ques- 
tion of organizing an association for the purpose of hold- 
ing a national show annually. The idea is a good one, 
which should not be permitted to be laid away with the 
many other good things that are shelved merely for the 
want of an organizer to interest the public. Flower 
shows are educational for the masses and indirectly of 
great pecuniary benefit from a commercial standpoint. 
But such interests must not be allowed to dominate an 
organization of this kind. There are non-professional 
flower lovers in every city and town in the country who 
would be glad to co-operate with the professionals in 
an organization of this kind, and, as Mr. Burpee says in 
“The Florists’ Exchange,” there would be no difficulty 
in obtaining “sufficient underwriters” to insure raising an 
adequate guarantee fund. 
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Memorial Day 
“No feller can tell” anything about the weather, but 
unless an unexpected setback comes, the approaching Me- 
morial Day will witness a wealth of blossoming seldom 
surpassed. The predicted low temperature with its train 
of disaster was not as general as was feared, although in 
some localities the damage was discouragingly severe. 
While the temperature has been low and frost frequent 
up to this middle of May, they have only tended to retard 
bud development in both fruit trees and ornamentals. 
The spring show in the parks and cemeteries is one of 
unusual beauty, which will naturally deepen the ever- 
increasing interest in nature and its benign influences. 
And it is as refreshing as ever to watch the children 
eagerly hunting for the little spring blossoms which never 
elude their prying search. 
Save Niagara Falls 
The American Civic Association is again urging the Ameri- 
can people to insist upon the preservation of those wonder- 
ful Falls of Niagara, the practical destruction of which cer- 
tain interests seem determined to carry out. All the dollar 
bill interests of the world, as a fact, decry sentiment, and 
the American section declares that sentiment alone is de- 
manding the perpetuation of Niagara. The people must 
never allow such a despicably senseless idea to influence 
them ; for every thinker of the human race today knows full 
well that sentiment has been the progressive force in the 
world’s development. It is involved in every good as well as 
patriotic movement and cannot be separated therefrom. 
Hence there is no weakness at all represented in the people’s 
demand that Niagara shall be preserved. But the interests 
interested, and their thoughtless advisers, are quite powerful 
at this stage of our history, so that the appeal of the Ameri- 
can Civic Association that every reader of this should make 
an urgent and immediate demand upon his representatives 
in both Houses of Congress to give every possible assist- 
ance towards the passage, unamended, of Mr. Burton’s Sen- 
ate Joint Resolution 3, continuing, during the life of the 
Waterways Treaty, the provisions of the Burton Bill. We 
ask our readers to write their representatives at Washington 
and to advise their friends to do likewise. 
A Great Scheme for New York’s River Frontage 
The Commissioners of Parks and Docks, of New York 
City, are considering a scheme, which has in times past been 
suggested in a general way, to fill in a strip of the Hudson 
River foreshore, 200 feet wide and two and a half miles 
long, between 81st and 129th streets ; to build thereon docks, 
platforms, and railway tracks for steamship freight traffic; 
roof the tract over, and lay out on it a park for public use. 
“The Scientific American” of May 6 has an illustration of 
the project which is startling in its magnitude. The port 
of New York is actually suffering from lack of modern 
dock accommodations, while the surface railroads along the 
river front are an offense to a metropolitan city ; so that 
the officials above have united in presenting to the city 
authorities a gigantic scheme, feasible withal, which would 
further enhance the value and beauty of Riverside Drive 
and Park, and provide a considerable addition to New York’s 
dockage area and facilities. The commissioners have given 
the project long and earnest consideration and are present- 
ing it as a valuable and practicable plan for meeting grow- 
ing requirements. 
Fraudulent Spraying Liquids 
Michigan is to be highly commended, and its example 
followed by other fruit-growing states, for its legislation to 
protect the fruit growers against the frauds so frequently 
attempted, and often perpetrated, in the spray material busi- 
ness. Prof. L. R. Taft, state inspector of nurseries and 
orchards, has found it necessary, once more, to warn the 
fruit growers of the state, and the warning may well be 
heeded in other parts of the country, against fraudulent 
spraying materials now on the market. As a rule, this class 
of materials is generally heralded as cure-alls for all insects 
and diseases to which fruit trees are subject, which are 
claims extravagant enough to invite immediate suspicion. 
Prof. Taft would be glad to obtain the names and addresses 
of the manufacturers of all insecticides and fungicides, of 
which any farmer or fruit grower in Michigan may be in 
doubt, as well as the names of agents or dealers handling 
them. 
First American City Plan Exhibit 
The first American Municipal City Planning Exhibition 
will be held in the City Hall, Philadelphia, May 15 to 
June 15, and it will be open free to the public. Mayor John 
E. Reyburn has been particularly active in bringing this about. 
This exhibition will consist of models, perspectives, photo- 
graphs, plans, maps, etc., illustrating the growth of city plan- 
ning in America and Europe, and visitors will have the op- 
portunity of studying the development of the modern Conti- 
nental city, the marvelous growth of the boulevard system 
of Paris, the garden cities of England, the municipal hous- 
ing enterprises of Ulm, the famous docks of Liverpool, Ant- 
werp, Rotterdam and Bremen, etc., as well as what has 
been accomplished in our own United States. The exhi- 
bition will undoubtedly mark an epoch in the work in 
this country. 
Apropos of the above, mention must not be omitted of 
the Convention of the American Federation of Arts, which 
will be held in Washington, D. C., from May 16 to 18, and 
which will be fraught with great possibilities in the develop- 
ment and application of art generally in all its varying out- 
look. The most prominent men in the country will take 
part. 
