PARK AND CEMETERY 
and Landscape Gardening. 
VOL. XIII CHICAGO. JULY, 1003 No. 5 
American ParK and Outdoor Art Association 
Seventh Annual Convention. 
The American Park and Outdoor Art Association 
is exceptionally fortunate in its selection of dates and 
locations for its annual conventions. It would have 
been difficult if not impossible to find more favorable 
conditions for holding a convention than those which 
existed at Buffalo from July 7th to 9th inclusive. Buf- 
falo presents a strong contrast with Boston. Last year 
the members of the association were shown the work 
of the pioneers of park work in America ; this year 
at Buffalo they saw the culmination of that work. 
The parks and 1 public places of Boston are associated 
with the somewhat ancient history of that city, while 
those of Buffalo are modern in every respect, the older 
of the larger parks being scarcely over thirty years 
old. 
The entertainment of the delegates fully sustained 
the enviable reputation of the Queen City of the Lakes 
for unstinted hospitality. In fact, if there was any 
part of the program of the convention which was 
open to criticism it was the very large proportion of 
time which was devoted to lunches and sight-seeing. 
One excellent feature of the convention was the 
brevity of the papers. The doing away with parallel 
sessions was a decided improvement. The president 
of the association, Mr. Clinton Rogers Woodruff, 
made an excellent presiding officer, and much of the 
success of the convention was due to his admirable 
management and to the able assistance of Airs. Her- 
man J. Hall, of the Auxiliary society, and Charles 
Mulford Robinson, secretary. 
The exhibition of drawings, photographs, etc., in a 
room in the basement of the hotel was visited by 
MEMBERS OF AMERICAN PARK AND OUTDOOR ART ASSOCIATION IN CONVENTION AT BUFFALO. 
