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hospitality of the city of St. Paul, The afternoon 
was passed in visiting Como Park, partaking of 
luncheon, at which the city officials and the asso- 
ciation exchanged compliments, driving through St. 
Paul’s park domain, and bringing the excursion to 
a close at Indian Mounds Park, a locality bound up 
in tradition and reminiscence. The party returned 
to Minneapolis in the evening delighted with their 
experiences. 
Saturday morning a visit was made to the Agri- 
cultural Experiment Farm, on the occasion of the 
annual meeting of the Minnesota Horticultural So- 
ciety. This station is in charge of Prof. S. B. Green, 
and is allied to the Minnesota State University. 
Saturday afternoon was spent most delightfully 
by a large number of remaining members and in- 
vited guests, in participating in the invitation ex- 
tended by Mr. F. H. Peavey to make a steamer ex- 
cursion on Lake Minnetonka and visit his residence, 
Highcroft, on that beautiful lake. The day was fine 
and the lake trip invigorating in everyway, but the 
charm lay in Mr, Peavev’s palatial home and its 
surroundings. The grounds occupying a knoll-like 
elevation of considerable extent, command a mag- 
nificent panorama of scenery, and are laid out to be 
artistically beautiful; broad lawns flanked and em- 
bellished by appropriate plantings, and the Italian 
garden, unobtrusive in a general sense, arranged 
to present its best features to the household, all 
combine to offer an example of the highest form of 
outdoor art in connection with a residence estate. 
Mr. Peavey’s hospitality was a fitting climax to the 
Minneapolis convention of the American Park and 
Outdoor Art Association. 
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DELEGATES AND MEMBERS PRESENT. 
L. E. Holden, Cleveland, Ohio; Lewis Johnson and wife, 
Sheldon W. Clarke and wife, New Orleans; Chas. Campbell, 
S. B. Armour, Geo. E. Kessler, August R. Meyer, Adriance 
Van Brunt, Kansas City, Mo.; Emil Durr, D. Erdman, Chas. 
Manegold, Christian Wahl, Mr Reben, Milwaukee, Wis.; O. 
C. Simonds, E. A. Kanst, W. A. Peterson, C. J. Stromback, 
John W. Weston, Park and Cemetery, Chicago, 111 .; Phil. H. 
A. Balsley, M. P. Hurlbut, Detroit, Mich.; Warren H. Manning, 
Boston, Mass.; John C. Olmsted, Brookline, Mass ; M. L. Moore, 
W. R. Hodge, Toledo, Ohio; Fredk. W. Kelsey, Chas. N. Low- 
lie, New York; J. W. Manning, Reading, Mass.; Frank H. Nut- 
Lr, W. G. Nye, Hon. Robt. Pratt, J. A. Ridgeway, C. J. Rock- 
wood, Fred L. Smith. J. Staft, Chas. H. Wood, Wm. M. Berry, 
Harry W. Jones, Chas. M. Loring, William W. Folwell, Arthur 
W. Hubert, Minneapolis, Minn.; Geo. H. Hnzzard, Fred Nuss- 
baumer, R. M. Newport, J. A. Wheelock, St. Paul, Minn.; Geo. 
E. Blake, Mankato, Minn; J. C. Doughty, Lake City, Minn.; 
E. J. Cornish, Omaha, Neb.; Edward J. Parker, Quincy. 111 .; 
E. L. Shuey, Dayton, Ohio; R. H. Warder, Cincinnati, Ohio; 
E. J. Fairall, Des Moines, la ; Cyrus Peck, Newark, N. J.; C. F. 
Pilot, Sing Sing, N. Y. ; C. B. Waldron, Fargo, N. D. 
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One of the interesting episodes of the convention 
week was a hurried trip to the interstate park about 
the Dalles of the St. Croix River. The natural 
beauties and phenomena about this tract, render it 
of marked public interest, and amply justify the 
states of Minnesota and Wisconsin in providing lib- 
erally for a proper development and care of the 
scenery for the future benefit of their citizens. To 
Mr. George M. Hazzard the Minnesota Commis- 
sioner, whose guests we were, is due the credit for 
work so far done, and it is surprising that with the 
moderate appropriations at his disposal he has ac- 
complished so much towards developing the salient 
beauties of this interstate park. It is well worthy 
of a special description in the near future. 
ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS, KEW, SURREY, 
ENGLAND, III. 
Sir Wm. Hooker assumed the directorship April 1, 
i84r,the Garden then occupying about 11 acres. Suc- 
cessive additions were made, and in 1847, "hat was 
known as the “Pleasure Ground,” containing 250 acres, 
was added. Throughout the 25 years term of Sir Wm. 
Hooker’s office, the gardens’ activity proved of utmost 
material beneficence, and gained for it a powerful in 
fiuence. 
The building of the large Palm House in 1848, was 
on the situation staked out 14 years before in the 
presence of King William IV; the Economic Botany 
Museums; the Herbarium virtually, and the Temperate 
House were siarted. In 1841 the visitors to Kew were 
9,174, and in 1855 over 300,000 entered. In 1851, the 
year of the Great Exhibition, there were 327,900. 
The desire to popularize the science of botany was 
aptly conducted, and that it was encouraged is incident- 
ally seen by the sale of descriptive Guides to the 
Garden, having passed through 13 editions of 2,500 
each, within a comparatively few years. Donations 
were received from scientists, travelers, and others in 
all parts of the universe, and to properly care for these, 
new green houses were continually being erected. In 
1855, the Succulent House (No. 5), an even span, 200 
feet long, 30 feet wide and 15 feet high structure, was 
completed and even then the need of space specially 
adapted for tree ferns and conifers of the South Tem- 
perate zone was felt. 
The museums were started in 1848, and within 6 
years no less than 6,000 square feet of glazed cabinets 
were available for exhibiting the vegetable products 
serviceable to mankind. The timely provision of this 
museum was demonstrated by the interest manufac- 
turers, druggists and merchants had shown in it. In 
1855, another building with 13,000 square feet of mural 
glazed cabinets was added. Nothing of this character 
was ever attempted on such a comprehensive scale, and 
since its inauguration Kew stood unrivalled in this 
branch of science as it has ever since; the nearest 
approach at that time was the museums principally 
devoted to woods and various products connected with 
Physiology and pure Botany at the Jardin des Plantes at 
Paris. The Kew Herbarium was founded by the private 
collection of Sir Wm. Hooker, brought from Glasgow, 
and to this the private herbarium and library of Mr. G. 
Bentham, that required nearly 35 years for collection, 
was added. At the death of Sir William, the Her- 
barium was estimated to contain one million specimens, 
counting all of the same plant from one locality as one. 
