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THE GARDENERS' CHRONICLE 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 



Jersey City, N. J., un der Act of Congress of March 3. 1879. 



Published on the 15th of each month. 



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 For information regarding advertising rates, etc., address Adrertising 

 Department, Gardeners' Chr onicle. 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. 



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



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



TRUSTEES FOR 1913. 

 Peter Duff, Orange, N. T.; Williain Kleinheiiiz, OgonU,_Pa.; Willi; 



Who says that the gardener can gain no recognition 

 in this country for work well and faithfully done? He 

 who does is belied by the honor bestowed on Theodore 

 Wirth in his election as president of the Society of Amer- 

 ican Florists and Ornamental Horticulturists without an 

 opposing vote. Recognition has come to him through his 

 efforts to faithfully perform what had been entrusted to 

 him to accomplish. The mayor of the city, of which he 

 is superintendent of parks, in lauding Mr. Wirth's 

 achievements in the beautifying of the Minneapolis 

 parks, said that while the city has much need of its 

 park superintendent's services, nevertheless it is willing 

 that he should devote some of them in aiding to accom- 

 plish elsewhere what he has succeeded in doing in his 

 own city. There he has created public enthusiasm in 

 garden work and a general interest towards horticulture 

 and floriculture. The services of I\Ir. Wirth are openly 

 appreciated by the people whom he serves, but he mani- 

 fests no ponderosity over the many praises which have 

 come to him. After his election to the high office of the 

 Society of American Florists and Ornamental Horti- 

 culturists Mr. Wirth declared that he regards himself 

 to be a private gardener, and that he will always con- 

 sider himself as such while following his profession. 



Ducicham, Madison, N. J.; Alexander MacKe 

 Dodds. Wyncote, Pa. 



Glen Cove, N. Y.; John H. 



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 Fraser, 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, III. 



Vol. XVII. 



SEPTEMBER, 1913. 



No. 11. 



WHAT IS SUCCESS? 



The willingness of the public to interest itself in what 

 na*ture can produce when guided by human in- 

 genuity was conclusively demonstrated at the out-door 

 exhibit held in connection with the S. A. F. & O. H. con- 

 vention at Minneapolis last month. Too much credit 

 cannot be given to the management which materialized 

 this out-door planting scheme, and which has produced 

 marvelous results in showing what may be achieved in 

 a very few months in garden making. It appealed to the 

 rich and poor alike, and will undoubtedly accomplish 

 what was aimed at in the undertaking, to develop a 

 lasting interest in horticulture among those who were 

 attracted to this out-door feature of the convention. In 

 fact, leading citizens of Minneapolis are urging that the 

 out-door garden created for the S. A. F. convention be 

 made a permanent one in that city for educational pur- 

 poses. 



The convention comes to Boston next year, and it is 

 safe to predict that Boston, with its great horticultural 

 interests, will take advantage of the valuable lesson 

 taught in Minneapolis and create an expansive 

 grand out-door di.splay. At Minneapolis the out-door 

 planting was practically a trade exhibit, excepting that 

 ■ part of it which was furnished by the park department. 

 We trust that provision will be made at Boston next 

 year to give the gardeners of the eastern states an op- 

 portunity to participate in the out-door exhibit, for we 

 believe that they can — and will — help to make the Bos- 

 ton out-door display in 1914 one of the finest ever seen 

 anvwhere. 



The following answer to the question ; "What is suc- 

 cess?" received a prize of $250: 



"He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed 

 often and loved much ; who has gained the respect of 

 intelligent men and the love of little children ; who has 

 filled his niche and accomplished his task ; who has left 

 the world better than he found it, whether by an im- 

 proved poppy, a perfect poem or a rescued soul ; who has 

 never lacked appreciation of earth's beauty or failed to 

 express it; who has always looked for the best in others 

 and given the best he had ; whose life was an inspiration ; 

 whose memory was a benediction." — Exchange. 



FROST. 



I remember, I remember. 



With a sense of something lost, 

 How, one day in late September, 



Came the first cruel touch of frost. 

 In the garden all the flowers 



That had smiled in glad array. 

 Bowed their heads before the powers 



Of the frost — and passed away. 

 Where there had been laughing faces, 



Nodded ruins in dead, stiff rows. 

 Bleak, and shorn of all their graces ; 



Gone, as all that's mortal goes. 



I remember, I remember. 



Sullen under Fate's decree. 

 That one day of last September 



Taught me death's philosophy. 

 All the things we love are lent us — 

 . Flowers but for shorter time — 

 But the having won't content us, 



We would keep them past their prime. 

 In the poignancy of losing, 



We forget the joy we've had 

 While we loved them, and, accusing, 



Doubt God's wisdom — and are sad. 



— Herbert S. Richland. 



