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THE GARDENERS' CHRONICLE OF AMERICA. 



THE 



GARDENERS' CHRONICLE 



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OFFICIAL ORGAN OF 

 NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF GARDENERS 



President, Vice-President, Treasurer, 



J. W. EVERITT, 

 Glen Cove, N. Y. 



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



VV. S. RENNIE, 

 Ross. Cal. 



JAMES STU.\RT. 

 Mamaroneck, N. Y. 



TRUSTEES FOR 1914. 

 Peter Duff, Orange, N. J.; William Kleinheinz, Ogontr. Pa.; Wm. Tur- 

 ner, Mendham, N. J.; Geo. W. Hess, Washington, D. C. ; John H. Dodds, 

 Wyncote. Pa. 



DIRECTORS. 



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.; .\lcitander 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. L; Arthur Smith, Reading, Pa. 



To serve as directors for three years, until January 1. 1918 — William H. 

 Waite Yonkers. N. Y.; William N. Craip. Brookline. Mass.; Erward Kirk. 

 Bar Harbor, Me.; John W. Johnston, Glen Cove, N. Y. ; Carl N. Fohn, 

 Colorado Springs, Colo.; Peter Johnsen, Dallas, Tex.; Thomas Proctor, 

 Lenox. Mass. 



AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PARK SUPERINTENDENTS 



PrP-tident Secretar\<-Treasurer. 



GUSTAVE \. AMRllYX. ROLAND W. COTTERILL, 



New Haven, Conn. Seattle, Wash. 



Vice-Presidents, 

 JOHN McLAREN. CARL W. FOHN, JOHN HENDERSON. 



San Francisco, Cal. Colorado Springs, Colo. Montreal, Canada. 



HERMAN MERKEL, CHARLES HAIBLE, I. H. PROST. 

 New York, N. Y. Newburgh, N. Y. Chicago, 111. 



Vol. XIX. 



]^IAY, 1915. 



Xo. 5. 



The May number ushers in two new departments to 

 our publication — one on native bird protection, a subject 

 in which garden enthusiasts and all nature lovers are 

 showing -keen interest: the other on ornamental fowl for 

 parks and gardens, a new phase entering into the devel- 

 opment of the modern garden. Our readers are cordially 

 invited to contribute their experience or criticisms to 

 these departments. 



We call attention to the proposed campaign of the Com- 

 mittee on Bird Protection, of the X^'ational Association of 

 Gardeners, published on the page following. The co- 

 operation of all societies interested in ornithology, directly 

 or indirectlv, and civic bodies is sought by this committee 

 in its work,' which it is desirous to make nation wide, for 

 the protection of our native birds. 



The report, appearing in another column, of the com- 

 pleteness and beauty o"f the San Francisco Exposition, 

 sent to us by Chas. H. Totty, should stir the enthusiasm 

 of every horticulturist and lead those so situated to do so 

 to take advantage of the favorable opportunity to visit the 

 Pacific Coast this year. The educational value of such 

 a trip will well warrant the expenditure. 



CLEVELAND'S FALL FLOWER SHOW. 



Judging from the activities of The Ohio Horticultural 

 Society, The Cleveland Garden Club and The Cleveland 

 Florists' Club, during the past few weeks the Cleveland 

 Flower Show, which will be held under their auspices 

 Xovember 10 to 14, 1915, is sure to develop into one of 

 national interest and scope. 



It has alreadv been announced that the annual exhibi- 

 tion of the Chrysanthemum Society of America will be 

 held in Cleveland and we are informed that the American 

 Rose Society and also the American Carnation Society 

 have been invited to conduct a Fall E.xhibition in Cleve- 

 land in connection with the Cleveland Show. The invita- 

 tion extended to the Xational Association of Gardeners 

 will be acted on at the ne.xt meeting of the directors. 



Mr. \\'illiam Kleinheinz, president of the Chrys- 

 anthemum Society of America, states "the e.xhibition of 

 our society, fo he held in Cleveland this fall, will, no 

 doubt, be the largest one we have held in recent years. 

 From the standpoint of attendance we expect to break all 

 records because of the central location of Cleveland." 



The following executive committee will have charge of 

 the show : Mr. S. P. Baldwin, representing the Ohio 

 Horticultural Society: Mrs. L. Dean Holden, Mrs. A. S. 

 Ingalls, Mrs. John E. Xewell, representing the Cleveland 

 (iarden Clubi Mr. Frank A. Friedley and Mr. H. P. 

 Knoble, members of the Cleveland Florists' Club: Air. S. 

 Prentiss Baldwin is chairman ; Mr. F. A. Friedley, secre- 

 tary, and H. P. Knoble, general chairman of the show 

 committee. 



THE GROWER OF FLOWERS. 



C)bviously, the man who raises flowers is a better man 

 than one who raises Cain, though he may be no better 

 than one who raises cane. But, it seems to us, the man 

 who raises flowers should be the happy man ; a happier 

 man than many a one who is engaged in other vocations. 

 It should contribute to one's happiness to daily potter 

 among plants and growing things : to pot and plant, and 

 graft — in the only way that grafting is reputable — and 

 to see his work continually glorified in endless reproduc- 

 tions. He can say, with truth : "Yes, Nature is the au- 

 thor, but I am Nature's servant and assistant ; and, be- 

 hold, what miracles we have together wrought!" 



The man who raises flowers should be a good as \\ell 

 as a haiipy man ; for the happy man cannot be other than 

 good. He lives with innocence and beauty. He saturates 

 his soul with such colorings as no artist can place upon 

 his palette ; and he lives in an atmosphere of fragrance 

 as sweet as the incense which rises before holy altars; 

 more sweet, indeed, for it is fragrance fresh from the 

 hands of God. 



This man, who spends his days urging the soil to join 

 witli the sun and the breeze in the creation of beauty, 

 must rejoice in the pure chastity of the lily and thrill, at 

 times, in sympathy with the passion of the rose. He is 

 so closelv in touch with the microscopic tides of life, 

 with the ardor of Nature's chemistry, that he cannot es- 

 cape their influence if he would ! and he would not if he 

 could. If he be something of a poet, he may at times, in 

 imagination at least, hear the tiny ripplings of the vital 

 streams as thev go singing along the mx'sterious avenues 

 of leaf and stalk and liough. 



It is a wonderful vocation, this flower culturing. There 

 nuist be vastly more to it than the money one gets out of 

 it. If ever there was a labor that one could easily love, 

 and ought to love, it must be this labor which enables a 

 man to conjure forth buds and blossoms of beauty. 

 — American Florist. 



