THE GARDENERS' CHRONICLE OF AMERICA. 



789 



THE 



GARDENERS' CHRONICLE 



OF AMERICA. 



MARTIN C. EBEL, Managing Editor, 



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President, Vice-President. Treasurer, 



WM. H. WAITE, 1. \V. i;\ KKI'.TT. JAMES STUART. 



Yonkers, N. Y. Gltii ( ..vl-, X. Y. Mamaroneck, N. Y. 



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



TRUSTEES FOR 1913. 



Peter DufiF, Orange, N. J.; William Kleinheinz, Ogontz, Pa.; William 

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



Dodds, Wyncote, Pa. 



DIRECTORS. 



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

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

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

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



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

 Hartford. Conn.: las. MacALichan. Tuxerio Park, N. Y.; .-\. Bauer, Deal 

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

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



To serve until 1917— -A. J. Smith. Lake Geneva, Wis.: Theodore Wirth. 



Minneapolis, Minn.; Hertrick. San Gabriel, Cal.; Robert Angus, 



Tarrytown, N. Y. ; Robert Bottomlev, New Canaan, Conn. ; Alex. Fraser, 

 Newport, R. I.; Albert Smith, Reading, Pa. 



\'ol. XVII 



January, 1914. 



Xo. 



The action of the executive board of the Xational .As- 

 sociation of Gardeners to bring the Service Bureau of 

 the association, through a conservatively conducted ad- 

 vertising campaign, to the notice of estate owners and 

 others who may require the services of gardeners, in their 

 various capacities, is a commendable one. It will serve 

 the interest of the employer and employee. 



Properly conducted, it will fill a long felt want ; a 

 source to which those reciuiring gardeners may look to 

 obtain efficient and trustworthy men. To the gardeners 

 it furnishes a source through which some of tliem will 

 find opportunity for advancement. We say "some of 

 them" advisedly, for it must not be e.xpected that the 

 Service Bureau of any a.ssociation, professional or other- 

 wise, can provide for all affiliated with it. If it can pro- 

 vide for but only a few it is doing a great service to the 

 profession as a whole. 



W lien will the men and women who deem it necessary 

 to depend on landscape architects when some improve- 

 ment work is contemplated, though employing an efti- 

 cicnt and practical gardener, begin to realize that their 

 own gardener is probably more capable to perform such 

 work than the average outsider who is called in. 



We have no desire to reflect on the ability of the profi- 

 cient landscaper, but when conditions are brought to our 

 attention as the one in mind, where a reputable gardener 

 is forced to acce])t the responsibility of the incapableness 



of a so-called "landscape architect," we raise our voice 

 in protest. The reputation of the able landscaper is no 

 less at stake than is that of the practical gardener in such 

 an instance and we cannot understand why he does not 

 raise a hand in an effort to stamp out the flagrant abuse 

 practiced by some men under the guise of landscape 

 architects. 



W e refer to the work of a "landscaper" who commands 

 a reputation for the high cost of his services, which is 

 accepted by some people as a credential of ability. He 

 last summer completed the jjlanting of a large number of 

 ornamental trees and shrubs on an estate not many miles 

 away, but it soon became evident that most of his work 

 would prove a failure. The owner in disgust has turned 

 to his gardener and now expects him to develop some 

 sort of harmony out of chaos — but without incurring 

 further expenses in endeavoring to undo the mischief 

 done by the "expert" at great expense. 



\\e contend that if the owner regards his gardener 

 sufficiently capable to overcome the "harm done bv the 

 "e.xpert," why then employ an "expert" at all? Give the 

 gardener the opportunity due him to demonstrate his 

 efficiencv. 



Courtesy is itself a form of service. Bv gentleness of 

 manner, by an unobtrusive sympathy, by thoughtfulness 

 for others in little things, we may smooth the roughness 

 of life for those with whom we live, soothe their vexa- 

 tion, and contribute more to their real happiness than by 

 great and signal acts of generositv. — R. IV. Dale. 



WITHOUT FLOWERS. 



How bleak and drear the earth would seem 



Were there no flowers' faces 

 To give the hills, the woods and fields 



Their pleasing charms and graces I 

 Could spring be spring without a flower 



To smile at .April's weeping? 

 \A'ould robins trill so gay a song. 



Or May day be worth keeping? 



.\ii(l only think how bare the hedge 



Would look without its posies! — 

 1 low queer 'twould be to have a June 



That did not smell like roses ! 

 Xo dandelions on the sward 



For childhood's busy fingers : 

 Xo morning-glories, drinking dew. 



While golden sunrise lingers ! 



Xo violets, with hoods of blue. 



To nod at mild spring's coming: 

 Xo clover blossoms — would we hear 



The busy bees' soft humming? 

 .And were there no forget-me-nots. 



Xo Iniftcrciips or daisies. 

 The children would be lost for sports. 



The poets lost for phrases. 



Xo flowers, with their refining power 



Xo wafts from yon sweet heaven — 

 Xo tokens of a love divine 



To erring mortals given ! 

 .Ah. flowers your smiling faces prove 



The -Source of all our pleasures 

 ^^'nuld pronounce creation good 



^^'ithout thee, floral treasures ! 



— Selected. 



