Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 January 1915 — TRIBUTE PAID TO SOCIETIES [ARTICLE]

TRIBUTE PAID TO SOCIETIES

Co-Operative Work Acknowledged to Bo Best Method of Advancing City's Interests. In looking over an oljtl work of Peter Henderson, written about forty years ago, we find this beautiful "slam" on New York pity: “In New; York and its suburbs the taste la much lower than it is in either Boston or Philadelphia. In those places, no doubt their excellent horticultural' societies have done much to refine the tastes of the people, and it is to be regretted that neither New York nor its adjacent cities, with probably over two million people, have a single horticultural or florlcultural society.” At tne present day, this distinction is none the less deaf, and where these societies best flourish the highest appreciation of plant life is shown. There are better gardens, better gardeners, more varied plant life and more rare and costly plants in Pasadena than in any other city on the Pacific coast; also less crime and a higher standard of citizenship.—Los Angeles Times.