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THE GARDENERS' CHRONICLE OF AMERICA. 



THE 



GARDENERS' CHRONICLE 



OF AMERICA. 



MARTIN C. EBEL, Managing Editor, 



Published by 



CHRONICLE PRESS 



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., under 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 Advertising 

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



ADOPTED AS THE OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE 

 NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF GARDENERS 



President, Vice-President. Treasurer, 



WM. H. WAITE, T. W. EVERETT, JAMES STUART, 



Yonkers, N. Y. Glen Cove, N. Y. Mamaroneck. N. Y. 



Secretar\; MARTIN C. EBEL. Madison, N. J. 



TRUSTEES FOR 1914. 

 Peter Duff, Orange, N. J.; William Kleinheinz, Ogontx. Pa.; Willian 

 Duckham, Madison, N. T.; .Mex.Tiider MacKenzie, Highland Falls. N. Y. 

 John H. Dodds, Wyncote. Pa. 



DIRECTORS. 



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

 Lenox, Mass.; William .\. Craig, Erookline. 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.; Jas. MacMachan, Tuxedo Park. N. Y.; A. Bauer, Deal 

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

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



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

 Minneapolis, Minn.; Wm. Hetrick, San Gabriel, Cal.; Robert Angus, 

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

 Newport, R. I.; Arthur Smith. Read'ing, Pa. 



Vol. XVII 



MARCH, 1914. 



No. 5. 



The laudatory commendation of the profession of gar- 

 dening by many of the contributors to our special edition 

 must make every man who is following the calling of 

 gardener, and who is entitled to such calling, proud of 

 his vocation. 



This is not the first time that gardening has been upheld 

 in these columns as a profession of the highest standard 

 and it is only emphasized by what we read in these pages. 

 As we have pointed out in the past, gardening is not a 

 vocation which brings liberal mercenary remuneration to 

 its followers, though we are still hopeful that the world 

 will some day recognize the important part the gardener 

 plays in the uplift of mankind and will reward him ac- 

 cordingly. In the meantime he must rest content to ac- 

 cept as part compensation for his efforts in aiding nature 

 to produce all that is beautiful, the delight and love he 

 derives in doing this. 



The man who engages in the profession of gardening, 

 caters to a want of the people that no other profession 

 can supply. The physician caters to the sick, the minis- 

 ter to the sorrowful, the counsellor to the troubled. But 

 all who have burdens to bear still look to the productions 

 of the gardener to alleviate their sorrows, pains or cares. 

 The gardener who works faithfully with Nature works 

 with the Creator. 



.Vnnouncement has just been made of the formation of 

 a horticultural society on the lines of the Royal Horti- 

 cultural Society of Great Britain. The names of men 

 and women prominent in society and country life and 

 others prominently identified with the horticultural world 

 are linked with this proposed organization. It is re- 

 ported that a famous homestead and its grounds have 

 been acquired from the city of New York where the new 

 horticultural society is to be housed and its gardens 

 planted. An alliance for working purposes with the 

 Royal Horticultural Society is claimed to have been 

 formed. The aim of the society is to promote American 

 gardening, professional as well as amateur, to place it 

 on the same high plane that gardening has obtained 

 abroad. 



THOSE WHO WORK IN GARDENS. 



Ev M. O. B. Wilkinson. 



How strong they become who work in gardens, for 

 the sheer love of it ! 



They are always learning, loving, seeking to under- 

 stand and to utilize. 



They foster the beloved weak and fight the inimical 

 strong. 



They root out the fulness which is a fault and fill the 

 emptiness that cries for more. 



They are able to beget and breed beauty. 



Those who work in gardens plant other things than 

 seeds and bulbs, tubers and cuttings. They plant hope 

 and faith and love. 



They gather in more than crisp vegetables, lucent 

 fruits, and flushed flowers, for they gather hardihood and 

 health and a rich fulfillment. 



Having planted according to the law, they expect ger- 

 mination according to the law, and the flower and the 

 perfect fruit. They do not worry lest what ought to 

 be will not be. They have the confidence of seers,- where- 

 fore they are seldom disappointed. 



Those who work in gardens work in the laborator\- of 

 life. They know as much as any one of its coming and 

 its going ; and far more do they know, than most of us, 

 of its growing and striving, fighting, winning, blossom- 

 ing, becoming and being. They see many meanings un- 

 intelligible to others. 



God has given into their hands a book of secrets. 



As they press the earth with kindly hands they smile 

 inscrutably, and the earth yields up her smiling strength 

 as their reward. 



In a garden there is as much chance for self-expression 

 as in any art, if only the soul of the gardener be free of a 

 money bond. 



For a garden may be compact enough to reveal the 

 careful soul, whimsical enough to show the dreamer, 

 stately for the proud, homelike for the hearth-lover, fra- 

 grant for the serenely religious. The variety is endless. 

 The combinations can not be counted. 



But always, those who work in gardens, make them, 

 in something, like themselves. 



And there is in a garden as great a chance for altruism 

 as in any philanthropy. 



The sick of soul will lag beside a sloping lawn, or un- 

 der the generous, shade-bestowing tree. The weary of 

 heart can find a bit of peace in benevolent arbors, or in 

 bowers of friendly shrubbery. The poor can forget their 

 debts for a space while they watch bewitching poppies 

 nodding to each other. And are there not a few con- 

 victs who would be gentler with their arms full of roses ? 



How natural it is that those who work in gardens 

 should be strong. They are very close to the heart of 

 life. Perhaps, also, they are close to God ! 



