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THE GARDENERS' CHRONICLE OF AMERICA. 



THE 



GARDENERS' CHRONICLE 



OP AMERICA. 



MARTIN C. EB EL, 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., under Act of Congress of March 3. 1879. 



Published on the 15th of each month. 



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ADOPTED AS THE OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE 

 NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF GARDENERS 



President, Vice-President. Treasurer, 



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



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



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



TRUSTEES FOR 1914. 

 ge, N. J.; William Kleinhe 



Peter Duff, O 



Duckham, Madison, N. T.; Alexand' 

 John H. Dodds, Wyncote, Pa. 



, Ogonti. Pa.: William 

 Highland Falls. N. Y.: 



DIRECTORS. 



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

 Lenox, Mass.; William N. Craig. Brookline, 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.: las. MacMachan. TuNcdo Park, N. Y.; A. Bauer, Deal 

 Beach, N. J.; Joiin 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 Bottomley, New Canaan, Conn.; Alex. Eraser, 

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



Vol. XVII. 



APRIL. 1914. 



Xo. 6. 



ousies antl personal gain made it possible to simplify 

 operations, distribute responsibilities and enforce econo- 

 mies, all of which aided to the success of the management. 

 The usual confusion attendent the larger Bower show 

 was entirely removed. It must not be overlooked how- 

 ever that the 1914 Flower Show Committee possessed a 

 most valuable asset in the experience gained by some of 

 its members serving on the committee of a year ago. 



As usual, trade support, in which wholesalers and 

 retailers and the various allied trades participated most 

 liberally made the financial success possible. 



The private interest in horticulture probably did more 

 for the show of 1914 than it has ever done for a flower 

 sliow before and no more energetic workers were to 

 be found in the management of the show than Messrs. 

 Havermeyer and Xewbold. They have established a 

 new diversion for societv. \\'atch l''l.~. 



.\gain Xew "i'ork has demonstrated that its people are 

 sufficiently interested in horticulture to loyally support a 

 flower show. While opinions were divided among the 

 visiting public at the 1914 show, as to its comparison 

 with the show of a year ago — due to the absence of the 

 more massive groups which were a feature of the former 

 show — there was no conflict of opinion, iiowever, among 

 the "experts." It was conceded by them all that the 

 quality of the exhibits this year was even better than 

 that of a year ago and that from all points of view the 

 show must be pronounced a grand success. 



Much of its success, so far as attendance was con- 

 cerned, was due to the interest Xew \'ork society mani- 

 fested in it this year. A movement is already afoot to 

 have an annual spring flower show in New York, to be 

 financed by some of New York's wealthy residents. 



We have always been firm believers that a flower show 

 in New York could be made as popular among society 

 as the horse show, but when expressing such convictions 

 we were usually told to "wake up." W'e are not given 

 to proj)hesying but we will venture the prediction that 

 Dl.^ will see our dream realized. 



What co-operation will do was shown in the successful 

 management of the recent flower show in Xew York. 

 Many interests were identified with it. but good team 

 work with the elimination of self ambitions, pettv jeal- 



Elsewhere in these columns we print the resolution 

 adopted bv the executive board of the National Associa- 

 tion of Gardeners, at a recent meeting. It proposes to 

 inaugurate a co-operative movement between it and the 

 local horticultural societies which may be interested in 

 such action. The proposed movement is an excellent one 

 and, so far as outlined, should prove helpful to all local 

 societies which will adopt the plan. Individual efifort is 

 materially aided, divided efifort becomes more available, 

 and united efifort is made most eiifective through co- 

 operation. Organization is he!]iful in developing a cause, 

 but it requires co-operation to thoroughly establish one. 



LOST CARES. 



'i"hc little cares that fretted me. 



1 lost them yesterday 

 Among the fields above the sea, 



.Among the winds at play. 

 Among the lowing of the herds. 



The rustling of the trees, 

 .\mong the singing of the birds, 



The humming of the bees ; 

 The foolish fears of wdiat might come, 



I cast them all away 

 Among the clover-scented grass. 



Among the new-mown hay, 

 Among the hushing of the corn 



Where drowsy poppies nod. 

 Where ill thoughts die and good are born, 



( )ut in the fields with God. 



Anon. 



Flowers are the sweetest things that God ever made and 

 forgot to put a soul into. Henkv Ward Beecher. 



The Field Studies and De- 

 NEED EACH nion-tration idea is not com- 



OTHER'S HELP. plete without the idea of ac- 

 tive and mutually helpful co- 

 oi)erati(in between the farmers themselves and all of the 

 public agencies intended to promote agriculture and 

 agricultural education. The farmer needs the facts and 

 the explanations which the scientists can furnish, and the 

 scientists and teachers are no less in need of the facts 

 and the point of view of the farmers: thev need to learn 

 the superscience which farmers call common sense, that 

 wholesome wisdom that is the essence of the thought and 

 experience of generations of men who have made good 

 through work and thought and thrift and unconscious 

 adai)tation to circumstances. — Department of Ag^ricitlture. 



