April 1, 1916 



H R T I C U L T U E E 



453 



A FIELD OF PACHYSANDRA TERMINALS AT OLD TOWN 

 NTRSERIES. 



Evergreens, Shrubs and 

 Perennial Plants 



Headquarters for 



PACHYSANDRA 

 TERMINALIS 



OLD TOWN NURSERIES 



SOUTH NATICK, MASS. 



welcome him, do we not also need the 

 matured conclusions of the worker 

 whose experiences are an end to them- 

 selves? It was largely by his contri- 

 butions that the garden craft of the 

 past was enriched; it is his writings 

 we need now, and which future stu- 

 dents will need in order to understand 

 and measure up the conditions of to- 

 day, just as we ourselves try to recon- 

 struct the past by studying the writ- 

 ings of the old-timers." 



The lecturer said of writings of 

 record, description and imagination 

 they are "the book of the future; yet 

 that it will come is certain." He looks 

 here to the highest type of work both 

 as regards subject matter and method 

 of presentation; literary quality, not 

 mere manufacturing perfection. Of 

 this class he said: 



"Books of record carefully written 

 in the light of all contemporary avail- 

 able knowledge, yet inspirational and 

 practical, are the ideals that we set 

 before us. 



"Just as real, permanent progress in 

 our widespread American horticulture 

 tof the garden) must rest on the de- 

 velopment of the amateur as distin- 

 guished from the mere trader, so too, 

 must we look to a literature of enthu- 

 siasm based on the amateur's keen in- 

 terest in others of the same class to 

 develop and at the same time to reilect 

 the present day condition. Authorita- 

 tive gardening writings come to us 

 from England today even as in the 

 earlier times. But as yet we send 

 very few thither. 



"A canvass of the publications of 

 the last 10 years reveals that out of 

 about 200 different titles issued and 

 classified in the publishers' trade lists, 

 within the class and group headings 

 of gardening and horticulture, 47, or 

 about 25 per cent, are devoted to fruit 

 growing, which evidently still claims a 

 large share of attention; but various 

 phases of pleasure gardening, apart 

 from landscape work, claim a slightly 

 greater proportion, being represented 

 by 50 titles. Others are: Landscape 

 11, vegetables and truck gardening 31, 

 literary 13, children's garden work 9. 



"A comparison of the contents of 

 the earlier and present day periodicals 

 is illuminating, though it practically 

 parallels what has already been dis- 

 covered in regard to garden books. I 



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Sturdy, choice stock th^t can be 



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 hardy 

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 dendrons— transplanted and 

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have heard it held as an indictment 

 against the contents of the periodicals 

 today that the garden writings now be- 

 ing offered in their columns are, on 

 the one hand, too amateurish, catering 

 too much to the uniformed: and at 

 other times that they are too technical 

 and erudite, catering too much to the 

 technician." 



Mr. Barron held that this depends on 

 the individual's point of view, and as- 

 serted that the periodical is at once 

 teacher, educator, reporter and ideal- 

 ist, and that it is the public in large 

 measure that edits the periodicals. 

 He urged that writers come forward 

 and avail themselves of the offers of 

 the editors for the expression of all 

 phases of thought and differing view- 

 points of all interests. 



.Mr. Barron is a graduate of Chis- 

 wick, Eng. He was assistant editor of 



ROBBINK & ATKINS 



Nurserymen, Florists 

 ana Planters 



RUTHERFORD, NEW JERSEY 



HOLLAND NURSERIES 



ItKST II.VKDY KIIODODKXUKONS, 

 .\Z.VLE.VS, CONIFKRS, CLKM.ATIS, 

 II. 1'. ROSES, SIIRI'BS AND HER- 

 It.XfKOI S ri..VNTS. 



p. OUWERKERK, 



216 line St. Waebiwlin Hilftls 

 P. 0. Ng. I. HoUku N. 1. 



till' Gardener's Chronicle, London, 

 from 1885 to 1893, and since 1911 has 

 been editor of the Garden Magazine, 

 and horticultural editor of Country 

 Life in America. 



