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Excerpt from The Awakening of Harrisburg: Some Account of the Improvement Movement Begun in 1902; With the Progress of the Work to the End of 1906 To promote knowledge amongst the people as to the advisability of the large increase in the public debt proposed, an additional fund of was raised, the total of both funds, indeed, amounting to of which 90 per cent was contributed by the sixty citizens who pay nearly one-eighth of the taxes in the city. This, as previously mentioned, is equ1valent to a subscription of over in New York city. The preliminary organization was now made permanent, with the name of the Municipal League of Harrisburg, under a simple but model constitution. Surely Harrisburg might now lay claim to having awakened! About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Getting Acquainted with the Trees by J. Horace (John Horace) McFarland This is not a botanical disquisition; it is not a complete account of all the members of the important tree family of maples. I am not a botanist, nor a true scientific observer, but only a plain tree-lover, and I have been watching some trees bloom and bud and grow and fruit for a few years, using a camera now and then to record what I see—and much more than I see, usually! In the sweet springtime, when the rising of the sap incites some to poetry, some to making maple sugar, and some to watching for the first flowers, it is well to look at a few tree-blooms, and to consider the possibilities and the pleasures of a peaceful hunt that can be made with profit in city street or park, as well as along country roadsides and in the meadows and the woods. We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience.
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conservationist horticulturist
McFarland who consistently used only the first initial of his first name was born in McAlisterville, Pa. His parents, Col. George F. McFarland and Adeline D. (Griesemer) McFarland, were newspaper publishers and provided the comfortable financial situation that made reform and philanthropic involvement appealing.
John McFarland was privately tutored but self-taught in the printing business, and his only college degree was an honorary doctorate from Dickinson College in 1924.
As president of the American Civic Association (1904 - 1924), vice-president of the National Municipal League (1912 - 1928), and secretary of the Harrisburg Municipal League (1907 - 1945), he supported candidates and programs dedicated to cleaning up the graft-filled courthouse rings that his contemporary Lincoln Steffens labeled "the shame of the cities. " From 1904, when he began writing the "Beautiful America" column in the Ladies' Home Journal, McFarland took an increasingly active role in the burgeoning conservation movement. But in contrast to Chief Forester Gifford Pinchot, who made "conservation" a household word during Theodore Roosevelt's administration, McFarland stressed the aesthetic dimension of concern for the environment. In the 1908 Governors' Conference on Conservation at the White House, he made one of the few pleas for conservation's aesthetic dimension. Whereas Pinchot argued on economic grounds that conservation was important to ensure future supplies of raw materials, McFarland contended that conservation should be equally concerned with beauty and spiritual nourishment in an increasingly urbanized and industrialized nation. In 1909 he pleaded with Pinchot: "Somehow we must get you to see that the preservation of forests, water powers, minerals, and other items of national prosperity must be associated with the pleasure to the eye and the mind and the generation of the spirit of man". The issue came to a head over the future of the Hetch Hetchy Valley in Yosemite National Park. The city of San Francisco wanted to dam the Tuolumne River and create a municipal reservoir and a hydropower generating facility. Pinchot, with his wise-use conservation philosophy, favored such development, but McFarland could not support such a utilitarian definition of the function of national parks.
With John Muir, president of the Sierra Club, he helped wage a protracted struggle against the Hetch Hetchy dam and, symbolically, against needless sacrifice of scenic beauty to profit and growth. In 1913 the Woodrow Wilson administration decided in favor of the Hetch Hetchy dam. McFarland could nevertheless take considerable satisfaction from his role in having helped make Hetch Hetchy a national issue. He also lent a degree of badly needed objectivity to the aesthetic conservationist cause. Muir and his colleagues defined their struggles in somewhat hysterical terms of good and evil, but McFarland was calm, cautious, and open-minded. Particularly in his dealings with politicians and bureaucrats he took the kind of frank, fair position that bred credibility. He was not lukewarm about the cause of natural beauty, but he understood the realities of the compromise tradition in American politics. Thus it was easy for him to look beyond the Hetch Hetchy defeat and work effectively for the establishment of the National Park Service in 1916. McFarland regarded his role in the establishment of organized supervision of the national parks as his single greatest accomplishment. He died in Harrisburg, in the ninetieth year of a busy life.
McFarland was a skilled illustrator of botanical subjects, printed over 200 annual catalogs for gardening firms, and in time became a contributor to periodicals and editor of the American Rose Annual and American Rose Magazine. He became an international authority on roses, receiving the Arthur Hoyt Scott Garden and Horticultural Award in 1939 and the highest award of the National Rose Society of England, the Dean Hole Memorial Medal, in 1942. Toward the end of his life he had the satisfaction of seeing his early causes, such as the preservation of Niagara Falls, highway beautification, playgrounds and city parks, increasingly gain public and political favor. His rose garden in Harrisburg contained 800 varieties and achieved world fame. Although the national publicity accorded to some of his conservationist colleagues did not come to McFarland, he was among the most important members of the chorus of secondary leaders who defined and advanced aesthetic conservation during its inchoate period in American environmental history.
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Quotations: "It is the love of country that has lighted and that keeps glowing the holy fire of patriotism. "
McFarland's diverse interests, from horticulture to the preservation of scenic beauty and the reform of urban government, stemmed from his printing of journals espousing these interests (he was a master printer for seventy years). His ideals and zeal mark McFarland a Progressive; he typifies the Progressive reformer. Urbane, wealthy, and refined, he was uncomfortable with the rise of big business and big labor during the nineteenth century. He sought to redress the balance of power in favor of the people, their government, and cultural amenities. McFarland also represented progressivism by espousing efficient planning. He frequently used metaphors from architecture and construction to describe the role of America's civic leaders. Their responsibility was to sketch for the nation a plan providing for a beautiful, healthful, and habitable civilization that was also morally sound and culturally refined. McFarland saw himself as such a designer, charged with the duty that superiority always connoted for the Progressive mind: to lead the people to have respect for "the finer things of life. " Good government was a primary target of Progressive reform, and on the level of city politics McFarland was a significant national force.
McFarland's appearance was neat and brisk; a well-trimmed moustache and thin-rimmed gold glasses characterized his face. He was known as a kindly, gentle man who stiffened only when justice or beauty was at stake.
On May 22, 1884, McFarland married Lydia S. Walters. The couple had three children: Helen Louise, Robert Bruce, and Katherine Sieg (who died prematurely).
