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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. 



Office of Publicarion 



1 Montgomery Street, Jersey City, N. J. 



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Entered as second class matter February 18, 1905, at the Post Offic« at 

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



Published on the 15th of each month. 



Advertising forms close on the 10th preceding publication. 

 For information regarding advertising rates, etc, address Adrertising 

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



ADOPTED AS THE OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE 

 NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF GARDENERS 



President, Vice-President. Treasurer, 



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



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



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



TRUSTEES FOR 1914. 

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

 Duckham, Madison, N. J.; .-Mexander 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 N. Craig, Brookline, Mass.; Frank E. Witney. 

 Fishkill, N. Y. ; Robert Williamson, Lircenwich, Conn.; F. ICirk, 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, Tuxedo Park, N. Y.; A. 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.; Wm. Hetrick, San Gabriel, Cal.; Robert Angus, 

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

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



Vol. XVIII. 



JUNE, 1914. 



No. 2. 



In August next we will witness what will probably be 

 the greatest gathering of floricultural and horticultural 

 interests ever brought together at a convention in this 

 country. Boston, which today many regard as the hot- 

 bed of horticulture in America, will be the meeting place. 

 The convention will be that of the Society of American 

 Florists and Ornamental Horticulturists. The published 

 reports of the preparations under way give every evi- 

 dence that not alone the usual trade exhibits, but the out- 

 door garden plantings will surpass anything of their 

 nature ever attempted heretofore. 



The National Association of Gardeners will meet in 

 Boston at the time of the convention, its sister society 

 having graciously included the meeting of the gardeners' 

 association in its general program. 



Attendance at Boston during the S. A. F. convention 

 offers a trip both for pleasure and profit, and the gar- 

 deners should not miss it. Pleasure, in meeting with the 

 men who have been instrumental in the upbuilding of 

 horticulture in the past decade ; profitable, in the knowl- 

 edge you will glean from a visit to the outdoor garden, 

 studying what has been accomplished in this competitive 



planting; and from a visit to the convention's general 

 trade exhibition. 



Make Boston during the week of .\ugust 16 a part 

 of your 1914 outing. You will not regret it. 



Co-operation between the gardeners' societies is no 

 longer an advocated theory ; it has become an established 

 fact. Action has been taken by some of the prominent 

 local gardeners' societies to bring this about, the moving 

 spirit behind the plan being the gardeners' national asso- 

 ciation. The prime motive of the co-operative plan is to 

 create a more intimate knowledge as to what constitutes 

 the ability of the gardener who is thoroughly proficient 

 in his profession — to disabuse the public mind of the mis- 

 taken notion that simply because a man knows how to 

 mow a lawn and dig potatoes he is entitled to the title of 

 gardener ; and to promote a greater appreciation, on the 

 part of those who employ them, of the value of the serv- 

 ices gardeners render ; to arouse a keener general interest 

 in what the gardener produces ; and, finally, to provide 

 for the gardener, not so situated as to be able to acquire 

 scientific knowledge through a college course, oppor- 

 tunities through their own societies to obtain this educa- 

 tion to apply to their practical experience. 



The gardeners' co-operative movement is entitled not 

 only to the support of the gardeners, but of all interests 

 allied with the gardening profession. Its sponsors rec- 

 ognize that the plan is no small undertaking and that it 

 needs the boosts of the friends of the profession, as well 

 as the "knocks" of its critics, to bring to it the publicity 

 it desires and deserves. 



THE IMPORTANT MAN. 



You are important if you put yourself in the way ol 

 important things to be done — and do them. 



The years, since history began, have produced dreamers 

 and air castle builders, whose imaginary achievements 

 would have astounded the world had they actually put 

 their mind pictures into reality. But all along, such have 

 breathed out their span and died ordinary and unknown. 



The Important RIan is he who puts his dreams and 

 great imaginations into works. 



The men who pave our streets and plough our soil, 

 and run our machines, and write our iDooks — and who 

 do whatsoever useful things that come to hand — are im- 

 portant men. The task is not always indicative of the 

 importance of the man. But the man is always indicative 

 of the importance of the task. 



Your future importance depends upon the importance 

 you place in the things you now do. — Philadelphia 

 Bulletin. 



THE ONLY WAY. 



There's onlv one method of meeting life's test, 



Jes' keep on a strivin' and hope for the best. 



Don't give up the game and retire in dismay, 



'Cause hammers are thrown when you like a bouquet. 



This world would be tiresome ; we'd all get the blues, 



If all the folks in it held just the same views. 



So finish your work, show the best of your skill. 



Some folks won't like it. but other folks will. 



If you're leading an army, or building a fence. 

 Do the most that you can with your own common sense. 

 One small word of praise in this journey of tears, 

 Outweighs in the balance 'gainst a cart load of sneers. 

 The plants that we're passin' as common place weeds 

 Oft prove to be jes' what some suff'erer needs. 

 So keep on agoin', don't stay standin' still. 

 Some people won't like it. but other folk? will. 



— Philosophy of William F. Gude. 



