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referred to, the horticulturists can give most effect- 
ive assistance by aiding to awaken that interest so 
essential to its progressive development. And, 
moreover, it is one in which they perhaps more than 
any other class, are materially interested. The dis- 
cussion of topics pertinent to village and country 
improvements, wherein the cultivation of shrubbery 
and trees may form the principal feature of the dis- 
cussion would be of great help. It would afford a 
valuable fund of information if every horticultural 
society would discuss and determine the kinds of 
trees and planting material particularly adapted to 
certain localities within its influence, with the best 
systems of cultivation and care; and such societies 
are eminently capable, by their composition and 
experience, of determining just such information 
and presenting it in an available form for the com- 
mon understanding of the community. It is by the 
intelligent and widespread effort of all interested that 
an era of art out-of-doors improvement can be inaug- 
urated and encouraged, and those materially inter- 
ested in its promotion should avail themselves ot 
every suggestion to this end. During the meeting of 
the East Tennessee Horticultural Society, to be held 
in Knoxville, September 6-8, the following papers 
are to be read: “The Use of Bulbs in Beautifying 
the Home,” “Hints on the Cultivation of Flowers,’’ 
“How to Make an Attractive Lawn,” “Some Valu- 
able Shrubs,” and “Gardening on a City Lot.” The 
whole program is of general excellence. Apropos 
of the work ot Horticultural societies in the general 
question, at a recent meeting of the Massachusetts 
Horticultural Society, an amendment to the con- 
stitution was adopted, establishing a standing com- 
mittee on forestry and roadside improvement, and 
a fund was appropriated for its use. This is in line 
with the suggestions above made and is very grati- 
fying. 
O NE of the most important projects now under 
consideration, and in which the combined 
genius of the architect and landscape 
architect must be brought into exercise if the best 
results are to be secured, is the reconstruction cun 
an ideal plan of the University of California at 
Berkeley. For this, as has been before reported 
in these columns, a program has been prepared, 
and the architects of the world have been invited 
to enter a competition for an architectural plan. In 
a recent issue of The American Architect , Mr. War- 
ren H. Manning, landscape architect, discusses the 
landscape phase of the project in quite a compre- 
hensive manner, and clearly shows that the problem 
before the designers is not only a complex one, but 
one requiring profound study to ensure result's 
likely to prove thoroughly satisfactory in the future. 
When the plan is secured, Mr. Manning says: “it 
is to be hoped that they will also be able to fix the 
plan, and a consistent policy regarding it, so firmly 
that their successors will not depart from it. The 
authorities of nearly all of our important educa- 
tional institutions have, in the beginning, or at 
different periods of the growth of these institu- 
tions, adopted a more or less comprehensive plan 
of grounds, or a style of architecture, with the 
intention that future additions should conform to 
it, but such preconceived plans have, for various 
reasons, been radically departed from or only par- 
tially realized.” Th® program provided by those 
in charge of the competition does not appear to be 
framed so as to invite landscape architects to offer 
plans, and on this feature of the work, Mr. Man- 
ning says: “The landscape problems presented by 
the site in question are so unusually intricate that 
the advice of a skilled landscape designer would 
have been of much assistance in the preliminary 
stages of the undertaking to determine in advance 
the areas required for each department, the prac- 
ticability of providing for all of these on the site 
selected, and to consider in conjunction with the 
architects, the character and disposition of build- 
ings and means of communication, and their asso- 
ciation with existing and proposed plantations, all 
these to be considered as elements of and related 
to the landscape of the chosen site.” It can to-day 
safely be asserted that no great architectural scheme, 
involving landscape accessories, can be properly 
designed without the co-operation of the landscape 
architect, — to such an important position has that 
profession risen in this country, — and without such 
co operation in perfect harmony the successful 
carrying out of such a project as is contemplated, 
cannot be expected. Mr. Manning examined the 
grounds and found that the present total area 
amounts to some 350 acres, of which the possibly 
available ground for the requirements of the pro- 
gram is an area^of 225 acres, and of this only some 
60 acres are flat 5 sites for buildings, etc. He then 
discusses the program in regard to proposed build- 
ings, areas of approaches, etc., comparing them 
with similar details of the other leading institutions 
of the country, and elaborating upon them. After 
a comprehensive review of the practical features of 
the scheme, he concludes that it rs impracticable to 
provide adequately for all the program calls for. 
If all the buildings are provided for, with future 
extensions, on this site, it will be necessary to 
crowd the buildings on rugged and irregular land. 
“This will result m picturesque grouping and 
treatment, much more in keeping with the character 
of the topography and landscape than if anything ap- 
proaching a rectangular arrangement is attempted.” 
