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FOR GROWERS AND DEALERS IN NURSERY STOCK 
The National Nurseryman Publishing Co., Incorporated. 
Vol. XVIII. 
ROCHESTER, N. Y., JUNE, 1910 
No. 11 
DENVER AND ITS MAYOR 
It is something over twenty-two 
years since it was our privilege to see 
Denver for the first time. The 
striking features at that time were 
the evidences of rapid growth, 
in the spacious streets, the sparsely 
occupied blocks. It was a city in the 
making. Today it occupies the proud 
position of a city not exhibiting 
crude undeveloped possibilities but 
rather a fine measure of artistic and 
efficient accomplishment. No city 
in the United States has given more 
thought to questions of civic utility 
and civic beauty than has Denver. 
Around these questions great contests 
have waged but though in some cases 
the outcome seemed uncertain and 
the course of beauty and righteousness 
a losing one, yet in the final settle¬ 
ment right has usually prevailed. 
HON. ROBERT W. SPEER 
Mayor of Denver 
Denver has just issued triumph¬ 
antly from a civic campaign mak¬ 
ing for greater civic beauty. Such 
objects are always the most diffi¬ 
cult to attain because the appeal 
is by no means universal. That 
the sentiment in favor of an up- 
to-date city, modern in its sanitary 
and its aesthetic aspects should prevail 
is a matter of more than passing 
moment. It reflects the ideals and 
power of the leaders in civic reform 
and upon no one man does it shed 
more credit than upon the chief exe¬ 
cutive, His Honor, Mayor Speer, 
who has labored unceasingly for the 
improvement of the city. The new 
Denver with its handsome and appro¬ 
priate civic center will stand as a 
splendid monument to the farsighted¬ 
ness of the Speer administration. 
PANORAMIC VIEW OF THE BUSINESS SECTION OF DENVER, COLORADO 
Despite all of the objects of interest in Denver and vicinity to occupy the attention of visitors their eyes are ^ Wmed Wwarcl into pictures that only 
is a fascination in the great snowy range, with its foreground of purple foothills, which the shifting clousdeothfhave been 
an artist of rare genius could reproduce on canvas. Small wonder that the tounst is charmed, and not satisfied until the m>stenous deptns nave Deen 
explored. 
