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THE GARDENERS' CHROXICLE OF AMERICA. 



THE 



GARDENERS' CHRONICLE 



OF AMERICA. 



MARTIN C. EBEL, Managing Editor, 



Published by 



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M. E. MAYNARD, President. A. A. FAY, Sec'y- 



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Entered as second class matter February 18, 1905, at the Post Office at 



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Published on the 15th of each month. 



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 Department, Gardeners' Chronicle, Madison, N. J. 



ADOPTED AS THE OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE 

 NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF GARDENERS 



President, Vice-President, Treasurer, 



WM. H. WAITE, A. J. SMITH, JAMES STUART, 



Vonkers, N. Y. Lake Geneva, Wis. Mamaroneck, N. Y. 



Secretary, MARTIN C. EBEL, Madison, N. J. 



TRUSTEES FOR 1913. 



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

 Duckham, Madison, N. J.; Alexander MacKenzie, Glen Cove, N. Y.; John H. 



Dodds, Wyncote, Pa. 



DIRECTORS. 



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

 New Canaan, Conn.; Carl Schaeffer, Tuxedo Park, N. Y.; E. Wetterlow, 

 West Manchester, Mass.; T. J. Kempton, Baychester, N. Y. : E. Trethewey. 

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



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

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

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

 Harbor, Me.; James Bell, New York, N. Y. 



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

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

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

 Washington, D. C; James C. Shield, Monticello, 111. 



Vol. XVII. 



AUGUST, 1913. 



No. 10. 



Again this month we contribute much of interest bear- 

 ing directly on the private gardener. As the official or- 

 gan of the National Association of Gardeners, tlie 

 Chronicle primarily strives to serve the interests of the 

 gardening profession, and to devote its columns to only 

 that which brings the private gardener in closer relation- 

 .ship with horticultural and floricultural progressiveness 

 in its varied phases. Some of the contributions which 

 appear in this number should make every gardener who 

 reads them feel proud of the profession he has adopted 

 as his. The articles illustrate the type of men that are 

 associated with his profession, the ability they possess, 

 and how much their calling enters into the very lives of 

 the people. 



In the life history of Mr. Theodore Wirth we find that 

 he has not done much, and that he contemplates do- 

 ing much more to benefit mankind than he has already 

 accomplished, in his capacity of superintendent of one 

 of the best-organized park systems in this country. And, 

 we ask, where is skill equalled to that Mr. William Her- 

 tuck has displayed, as portrayed in the contribution to 

 these columns, in the laying out of a practically waste 

 land into a beautiful garden in the short period of a very 

 few years ? There are many sciences wonderful for what 

 they produce, but which nf them compares with the inar- 

 velousness of transforming an arid plain into a fertile 

 land of beautiful plants and flowers? These men are 

 representative of a class who toil as quietly as the trees 

 that they plant grow, but \oii may know them bv their 

 fruits. 



The communication published in another column on 

 ''Exhibition Refurnis" should receive the careful atten- 

 tion of all our readers who may at times participate in 

 flower shows, whether as exhibitors, judges or man- 

 agers. The criticism is timely, and — we must confess to 

 believing — a merited one. We all know that what the 

 present system aims to safeguard can be violated with 

 impunity as easily as though absolutely no restrictions 

 were involved in the present custom of judging. The 

 bans should be removed. Open judging is more desirable 

 and is more creditable to the integrity of judges and ex- 

 hibitors alike. There are no better sportsmen to be found 

 anywhere than among the gardeners who exhibit at our 

 flower shows. 



JOSEPH CLARKE. 



The North Shore of Alassachusetts lost its oldest and 

 most venerated member on July 13 in the passing of 

 Joseph Clarke in his seventy-eighth year. Of Irish birth, 

 Mr. Clarke came to America at an early age and followed 

 horticultural pursuits during all the time he lived here. 

 He was for some years employed at Canton, Mass., and 

 later for many years on the estate of H. L. Higginson, 

 Manchester, Mass., which he made one of the beauty 

 spots of New England. Extreme good taste was mani- 

 fest here in all the planting of rare and difficult rock 

 plants, bulbs, etc., which were made a life study. 



For many years ]\Ir. Clarke was a successful exhibitor 

 at the Boston Shows, and he was one of the oldest mem- 

 bers of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society. He was 

 instrumental in founding the virile North Shore Horti- 

 cultural Society, attending all its shows and meetings un- 

 til sickness prevented. He retired from active service 

 several years ago. but kept up his horticultural interests 

 undimmed. 



THE GARDENER. 



It is not mine, this fair domain, 



This lordl}' scene of bold contour ; 

 Though mine the hand, and mine the brain — 



And mine the heart — that did conjure 

 From Nature's orderless grandeur. 



.\nd far-flung wealth of crowing splendors, 

 This well-planned scene with cunning sure 



That beauty doubly lovely renders. 



/ wove those twining paths around 



That steep green slope, faint, self-effacing ; 

 To make those arbors, leafy-crowned, 



/ trained those trees, all interlacing. 

 / led that brook to linger more, 



-As down its winding path it traced ; 

 Those dancing flow'rs that fringe its shore 



By my own thought and hand were placed. 



I did all this, but not for me — 



.\nother owns what I have wrought. 

 I took — and still receive — a fee ; 



M\- skill of mind and hand was bought. 

 -Another comes at times to see 



His land, his flow'rs. his trees above, 

 .\ll his — but in true equity 



They all are mine by bonds of love. 



Can he who owns them take more joys. 



Who cannot half their beauties find. 

 From them than I whom he employs : 



The\- reach my heart, but scarce his mind. 

 He owns by law — and I by love ; 



In whom does truest title lie? 

 In God's great record books above 



Who trul\- owns? I think 'tis J. 



— Herbert S. Richland. 



