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SHORE BREEZE 
|| A WEEKLY JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE BEST INTERESTS OF THE NORTH SHORE |\@) 
Vol. V. No. 50 
MANCHESTER, MASS., SATURDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1907. 
24 Pages ‘Three Cents. 
ON LANDSCAPE GARDENING. 
Well known Landscape Architect and Nursery Man gives Instractive 
Talk at Manchester. Some Interesting Points. 
Half a hundred members of the North 
Shore Horticultural society were in at- 
tendance at Lee’s hall, Manchester, 
Friday evening of last week at the semi- 
monthly meeting of the society. J. 
Woodward Manning was the speaker 
and was introduced by President James 
Mcegregor. Mr. Manning is the pro- 
prietor of the Readville Nurseries and asa 
horticulturist is widely known and a 
recognized authority. For over an hour 
he held the attention of his audience by 
an instructive, interesting and practical 
talk on ‘‘ Landscape Gardening.’’ The 
treatment of the subject was most com- 
prehensive, yet brief, as the subject cov- 
ered a very wide range for discussion. 
The underlying theme of the whole talk 
was the distinction between the two 
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schools’’ of landscape architecture, 
namely the formal, or artificial, and the 
informal or naturalesque, and their most 
effective and practical application to the 
varying conditions of different estates. 
Another salient feature was a discussion 
of the relations existing between the 
landscape architect and the landscape 
gardener; the particular duties of each, 
and the much-to-be-deplored friction and 
lack of harmony between them by a mis- 
understanding of the limitations of these 
duties. 
‘“ American estates,’’ the speaker 
said, “‘ suffer bycomparison with English 
estates because the former are too much 
of the mushroom growth. Estates in 
this country recently acquired by new 
owners do not get the opportunity. of 
finished effect possessed by the old es- 
tates of foreign countries. ‘The treat- 
ment of formal gardening in itself is ex- 
pensive and generally the owner does 
not take an active personal imerest in 
the matter, but employs the services of 
a professional landscape architect with 
college education and the experience of 
much travel to make the plans for the 
grounds. When the work laid out by 
the landscape architect is completed 
the services of the caretaker or gard- 
ener is employed and the estate 
suffers by the conflict of ideas between: 
the architect and the gardener. ‘The 
qualifications of the landscape architect 
do not constitute a gardener. He rarely 
has a knowledge by practical experience 
of horticulture, floriculture, etc., but 
the gardener must know the _ plants. 
However, the latter is too often placed 
subordinate to the former. Finally the 
novelty wears off and the gardener is re- 
quired to practice economics, with 
the results in the end that the American 
estates lack the grandeur of the foreign 
estates.”’ ; 
The history of landscape architecture 
in England was next touched upon 
briefly, the speaker reciting the eras in 
which formal and informal architecture, 
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MUNICIPAL CLUB. 
Members Listen to Interesting talk by W. W. 
Coolidge on Government by Commission, 
at Beverly Farms. 
That Beverly Farms citizens are inter- 
ested in the new movement for municipal 
government by commission was well at- 
tested by the large number who were out 
Monday evening to hear the talk by 
William W. Coolidge of Salem on this 
subject, and by the enthusiasm in which 
Mr. Coolidge’s remarks were received. 
The meeting was held under the aus- 
pices of the Municipal club, in Marshall’s 
hall, Beverly Farms. Mr. Coolidge’s 
remarks were substantially as follows: 
The man who pays the highest taxes 
should not have any more interest in the 
affairs of his.city than the man who pays 
the $2 poll tax. The poll tax payer is 
‘taxed in other ways to pay the running 
expenses of the city, in ways he too 
often loses sight of. The rich man 
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: ANOTHER STEP FORWARD. 
The Breeze is Now Printed in Manchester. 
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With this issue the BREEZE is entering upon a new era of life. | 
paper today is printed in Manchester,—an event toward which we have been | ; 
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looking for many weeks, the realization of a desire which has been the editor’s 
since the birth of the paper almost four years ago. 
The Breeze is the first paper to be printed in the town of Manchester, — 
a fact of which we are proud; a pride which we feel the many friends of the 
paper, who have followed it since its start, share with us. 
Heretofore the BREEZE has been printed in Beverly, though the greater 
part of the paper has been 
**set up’’ in Manchester the past year. In 
This office has been carefully developed and the plant enlarged. 
one object in view of making a permanent home for the Breeze, for we be- 
lieve that we can produce a better paper working under one roof than under 
two. 
Any discrepancies in the paper today, we feel, will be overlooked, for 
our readers must realize the difficulties under which, this, the first issue thus 
published, is produced. 
| August of last year Mr. Lodge, the editor, bought a small printing office. 
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