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JAMES B. SHEA. Bcton. Ma«. 
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WM. R. ADAMS. Omaha. Neb. 
Supt. of Parks 
J. W. THOMPSON. Seattle. Waah, 
Supt. of Parks 
NEXT MEETING. BOSTON. MASS.. AUGUST. 1912 
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F. L. MULFORD. WuWo., D. C. 
Landscape Gardener, Dep’t 
of Agriculture 
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G. CHAMPION. Wiimipe*. Cat. 
Supt. of Parks 
CHAS. E. KEITH. Bridgeport. Conn. 
Supt. of Parks 
FRED C. GREEN. Pr«*ide*». R. !. 
Supt. of Parks 
May 3, l'Jia. 
PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD OF PARK COMMISSIONERS; 
Dear Sir: The American Association of Park Superintendents is an 
organization of park executive officials whose qualifications shall be certain 
training and experience in park work. There is an active membership at 
present of one hundred and fifty members representing the principal cities 
of the United States and Canada. The purpose of the organization is to 
promote the acquirement and dissemination of knowledge, theoretical and 
practical, relating to the development and maintenance of parks and more 
especially with planning, improvement and upkeep of municipal parks. 
The organization holds annual meetings in the different cities which 
have been attended with increasing interest and great benefit accrues to the 
official attending the annual meeting as well as to the city he represents 
from the discussion and interchange of ideas and the opportunity to learn 
something of what the other fellow is doing. 
The annual dues are nominal, $5 per year, and the officers of the 
Association urge upon your Honorable Board, your assistance and approval 
of the objects and aims of the organization by an application for member- 
ship from a representative in your Department. 
Our Constitution also provides for Sustaining Memberships to Boards 
of Park Commissioners and we have already the membership of quite a 
number of Boards of Park Commissioners in different cities. The annual 
dues for this Sustaining Membership is $10 per year. 
Our next annual meeting will be held in Boston, August 13, 14 and 15, 
1912, and will without question be the most interesting meeting of the 
thirteen annual meetings that have heretofore been held. The Boston 
Park System is well termed “The Father of American Municipal Park 
Systems.” In Boston our park officials will be able to study a comprehen- 
sive park system more nearly matured and completed than in any of the 
other cities, which will be of great benefit to all of us — in fact an oppor- 
tunity that should not be overlooked. 
A three days program of importance and interest is being arranged for 
this meeting and will be forwarded to our membership list and to all park 
departments in advance of the date of the annual meeting and the purpose 
of this letter to you is to urge upon your Board a good representation 
at this annual meeting. 
Kansas City, Mo. 
Very truly yours, 
W. H. Dunn, 
President. 
BOSTON CONVENTION PLANS 
Progress is being made in the ar- 
rangements for the annual meeting 
in Boston. The following invitation 
has been received from the Massa- 
chusetts’ Horticultural Society: 
“At a meeting of the board of 
trustees of the Massachusetts’ Horti- 
cultural Society, held April 6th, it was 
voted to invite the American. Asso- 
ciation of Park Superintendents to 
hold its Fourteenth Annual Conven- 
tion at Horticultural Hall, Boston, on 
August 12th, 13th and 14th, 1912, as 
guests of this society. 
“The lecture hall is reserved for 
this purpose on these dates.” 
The invitation has been accepted 
with thanks. 
Mr. John K. M. L. Farquhar, the 
special commissioner to the Royal In- 
ternational Horticultural Exhibition 
in England, held early this month, 
will give an illustrated talk including 
an account of the exhibition and what 
he saw in Europe. Mr. E. H. Wil- 
son, who has traveled extensively 
in many foreign countries in the 
interest of the Arnold Arboretum of 
Boston, and kindred associations in 
England, in the interest of horti- 
culture, will give an illustrated talk 
on Chinese plants. 
Mr. Wilson has just received the 
gold medal from the Royal Horti- 
cultural Society in England, the only 
one ever granted in America. His 
talk will furnish much of interest to 
the members of the association. 
Mr. W. H. Wight, of the Depart- 
ment of Agriculture, Washington, D. 
C., has been sent abroad on depart- 
ment business so that it will be im- 
possible to have his paper on Botan- 
ical Nomenclature at this convention. 
It is probable there will be an il- 
lustrated lecture on the Seattle, 
Wash., parks, by Mr. Roland Cotte- 
ril, secretary of the Park Commis- 
sion of that city. 
The letter of the president of this 
association, addressed to the Park 
Commission of the country, as pub- 
lished in these columns, is intended 
to bring home to every park commis- 
sion the advantages of co-operation 
and interchange of ideas in our im- 
portant work. If there are any who 
do not receive the letter will they not 
kindly notify the secretary, as it will 
be because we have not your name 
on our list, and we want every one 
whether you join our organization or 
not. 
Any desiring to join the association 
will find an application blank accom- 
panying this. Constitution and by- 
laws will be sent on application to 
the secretary-treasurer. 
The following applications for 
membership have been received 
since the last annual meeting. 
Active Members. 
Bernard M. Rifkin, supt. of parks, 
Wilkes-Barre, Penn. 
James Wait, supt. of parks, Walla- 
Walla, Wash. 
John Allen, asst. supt. of parks, 
Boro of Queens, New York City. 
Colton, supt. of parks, Fitchburg, 
Mass. 
E. M. Brown, Forester. 
Special Members. 
Walter G. Eliot, commissioner of 
parks, Boro of Queens, New York 
City. 
Sustaining Members. 
Essex County Park Commission, 
Newark, N. J. 
Questions that are about park ad- 
ministration are especially courted as 
a subject of discussion in these pages. 
It is hoped that we may be able to 
demonstrate between now and the an- 
nual meeting whether or not such a 
medium of exchange is what we need 
to take the place of the bulletin we 
used to have. Let every one send 
in notes or articles of interest, per- 
