THE GARDENERS' CHRONICLE OF AMERICA. 



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THE 



GARDENERS' CHRONICLE 



OF AMERICA. 



MARTIN C. EBEL, Managing Editor, 



Madison, N. J. 



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TRUSTEES FOR 1913. 

 Peter Duff. Orange. N. T.; William Kleinheinz, Ogontz, Pa.; William 

 Duckham. Madison, .N. J.; .\le.xander .MacKenzie, Glen Cove, N. Y. ; John 11. 



Dodds, Wyncote. Pa. 



DIRECTORS. 



To serve until 1914— Robert Angus, Tarrytown, N. Y. ; Robert Bottomlev, 



New Canaan, Conn.: Carl Schaeffer, Tu.xedo Park, N. Y. ; E. Wetterlow, 



West Manchester, Mass.: T. J. Kempton. Baychester, N. \'.; E. Trethewey, 



Tarrytown, N. Y.; Alexander Fraser, Newport, R. I. 



To serve until 1915— Tohn Shore. Harrison, N. Y.; Thomas Proctor, 

 Lenox, Mass.; William N. Craig, North Easton. Mass.; Frank E. Witney, 

 Fishkiil, N. Y.; Robert Williamson. Greenwich, Conn.; F. Kirk, Bar 

 Harbor, Me.: Tames Bell, New York, N. Y. 



To serve until 1916 — Thomas W. Logan, Jenkintown, Pa.; Tohn F. Huss, 

 Hartford, Conn.; John W. Everett, Glen Cove, N. Y. ; .A? Bauer, Deal 

 Beach, N. J.: John W. Tones, Pittsburgh, Pa.; .Alexander McPherson, 

 Washington, D. C: Tames 'C. Shield, Monticello, III. 



Vol. X\"III. 



JANUARY, 1913. 



No. 3. 



As the time is again approaching for the setting of 

 dates for the fall shows, we suggest that the local so- 

 cieties around New York get together to arrange 

 a date schedule which will avoid having more than one 

 show in this vicinity opening on the same day. Such 

 an arrangement would create greater competition at 

 the various shows, would arouse greater interest — 

 would denote progress in floriculture. 



When you have read your Chronicle, do not con- 

 sign it to the waste pile, but pass it along to an inter- 

 ested neighbor. Better still, commence with this issue 

 to file your Chronicle as a future reference guide, 

 sending us the name of your neighbor, and we will 

 send him a Chronicle. 



Recent reports in some of the dailies have quoted 

 several of our prominent men and women who have 

 reached a good old age, as owing their long lives to 

 the onion. A prosperous year is predicted for this 

 vegetable, which is claimed to prolong life, fight oflf 

 disease germs, and purify everything e.xcejn the at- 

 mosphere in subway trains. Oh, if the onion lovers 

 who have acquired the "onion habit" could but see 

 some of the ])rize-\vinning varieties at the sliows, they 

 might even imagine that they have discovered the secret 

 to perpetual vigor of youth. 



The head of a foundation for the advancement of 

 teaching, created by one of our multi-millionaires, was 

 recently quoted as saying that after fifty years' experi- 

 ence with agricultural colleges "there is now the op- 

 portunity to build an agricultural school which will 

 really minister to agriculture." The person to whom 

 this statement was attributed was invited to con- 

 tribute an article to these columns, on what he might 

 consider would meet the requirements of a school such 

 as he contemplates. His reply was that by study and 

 visits to agricultural colleges he is now trying to learn 

 the present situation in agricultural training, and 

 that he does not yet feel ready to write an article as 

 suggested. Then why, if only still learning what our 

 agricultural colleges are doing in the way of training, 

 and not yet qualified to speak as an authority, criti- 

 cize the present systems, which are accomplishing so 

 much good, until prepared to suggest remedial meas- 

 ures? Most of us realize that there is room for im- 

 provement in everything we undertake, and no one 

 can justly say that our agricultural colleges have not 

 been awake to this fact. There is no exception that in 

 all public institutions some laxity exists, but agricul- 

 ture has been wonderfully benefited by our colleges 

 during the past decade. But progress in our country- 

 is, and has for some time past, been greatly hindered 

 by too many theorists advocating imaginary needed 

 reforms, with too few of them sufficiently practical to 

 offer a solution of the problems they delight to con- 

 front us with. 



In results of experiments made by a physician, 

 published in one of the medical journals, he blames the 

 earthworms for cancers and tumors which develop in 

 the human system, and advocates a wholesa'le massa- 

 cre of the creatures. He claims that the parasites of 

 the earthworms left in cabbages, celery, lettuce, etc., by 

 the worms, while feeding on these vegetables, find 

 their way into our stomachs and cause disease. We 

 are afraid, however, that the good doctor has over- 

 looked the fact that when the worms get through with 

 cabbages, carrots, etc., there is usually not enough left 

 of the plants to innoculate germs into anything. 



When you want a favor done, don't ask the idle man, 

 but ask the busy man ; he will find time to do it, while 

 the idle man gets busy finding an excuse for not doing 

 it. '^ ' 



THE TWO SEEKERS. 



Into the Garden Life was tending 



Two eager pilgrims came. 

 One with eyes and manner gentle. 



One with glance and lips of flame. 

 Said he of the flaming glances: 



"Seek I for a Rose, O Life, 

 The Rose of Love for my adorning! 



Give ! or I shall seek with strife !" 

 Cold the voice of Life made answer: 



"Love I give to all who ask. 

 Take the Rose, yet would I warn thee — 



Love shall perish in your grasp I" 

 To the one of gentle spirit 



Life a Rose no fairer gave. 

 Saying, "Take and be ye cheerful — 



"This shall bloom on earth's last grave !" 

 Outward from the Garden hasting. 



Each went on his further way : 

 One to find his rose was dying. 



The other, blooming bright each day ! 



—A. W. Peach. 



