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THE GARDENERS' CHRONICLE OF AMERICA. 



THE 



GARDENERS' CHRONICLE 



OF AMERICA. 



Published by 



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 1 Montgomery St., Jersey City, N. J. 



MARTIN C. EBEL, Managing Editor. 



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Entered as second class matter February 18, 1905. at the Post Office at 

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 For information regarding advertising rates, etc., address Advertising 

 Department. Gardeners' Chronicle, Madison. N. T. 



OFFICIAL ORGAN OF 



NAT lONAL ASSOCIATION OF GARDENERS 



President, 



WM. H. WATTE. 



Yorkers, N. Y. 



J 'ice-P resident, 

 J. W. EVERETT, 

 (_ilen Cove, N. Y. 



7 leasurcr, 

 JAMES STUART. 

 Mamaroneck, N. Y. 



Secretary, MARTIN C. EBEL, Madisun, N. T. 



TRUSTEES FOR 1914. 

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

 Dnckham, Madison, N. J. ; Alexander MacKenzie, Highland Falls, N. Y. ; 

 John H. Dodds, Wyncote, Pa. 



DIRECTORS. 



To serve until 191 5 — John Shore, Harrison, N. Y. ; Thomas Proctor, 

 Lenox, Mass. ; William N. Craig, IJrookline, Mass. ; Frank E. Witney, 

 Fishkiil. N. Y. ; Robert Williamson, Greenwich, Conn. ; F. Kirk, Bar 

 Harbor, Me.; James Bell, New York, N. Y. 



To serve until 1916 — Thomas W. Logan, JenkJntown, Pa.: John F. Huss, 

 Hartford, Conn. ; Jas. MacMachan, Tu.Kedo 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.; .-\lex. Eraser, 

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



AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PARK SUPERINTENDENTS 



President. Scetctary-Treasurer, 



GUSTAVE H. AMRHYN. ROLAND W. COTTERILL, 



New Haven. Conn. Seattle. Wash. 



J'icc-Presidents, 

 JOHN McLAREN, CARL W. FOHN, JOHN HENDERSON, 



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



HERMAN MERKEL, CHARLES HAIBLE. T- H. PROST, 

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



Vol. XVIII. 



SEPTEMBER, I9I4. 



X. 



The incomparable op]jortuiiity which now cuii fronts the 

 American business man, in almost every line of ef¥ort. 

 should act as a tremendous stimulant to our national pros- 

 IJerity. says Col. George Pope, jjresident of the .Xational 

 Association of iManufacturers, the most important body 

 of its kind in the United States, in the Xevv York Times. 



There are the markets which Europe has sujjplied and 

 there is the market in Europe itself left vacant b}- the 

 withdrawal from industry of millions of men and billions 

 of capital. If we accept the gift of fate we can l)e 

 prosperous beyond our dreams. Why not welcome it in- 

 stead of fearing shadows? he asks. 



The first thing to be done must be the mission of the 

 press, lay and technical, to call the attentior of the public 

 to the fact that the United States is the only nation in 

 the world today which has no excuse for business 

 pessimism. 



We must become optimists at a time when everything 

 justifies it. We must do away with public worry. There 

 is no excuse for it. We have been frightened by the other 



fellow's peril. I'hat is not good judgment. It is the 

 worst of judgment. 



The alleged excuses for it are hard to discover and 

 difficult of definition, says Col. Pope. They may be sum- 

 med up in the words, poor business. That is, the public 

 are not buying goods. With a public afraid to buy the 

 merchant is afraid to lay in stocks, and the manufacturer 

 is afraid to manufacture goods. Each one of these fears 

 results in unemployment and thus unfortunately tends to 

 transform the imaginary into fact. 



Xo general depressiim can exist as the result of a dis- 

 turbance liical to one section or one line of activity. Xo 

 unfavorable conditions which are general in any industry 

 can fail to react in snme measure upon other industries. 

 Xothing is more cnntagious than doubt, nothing is so 

 enervating as fear. 



We must be careful to be cheerful and hopeful if we 

 want to be happy, and our own happiness will react upon 

 unfavorable surroundings, tending to make them favor- 

 able. In other words, happiness will lieget cause for hap- 

 piness, and this is truer in business than in anything else. 



Only when we are happy do we feel like spending 

 money upon ourselves and families ; only when we are 

 happy does our happiness react on other people and make 

 tliem feel like spending money. And unhappiness is a 

 tremendous bar to man's efficiency in earning money. 

 When we are not nationally happy we are not natiunally 

 prosperous, for we are not doin business one with ancither. 



\\'e are confronted with the certainty of a tremendously 

 enlarged and highly profitable European tra^le, Asiatic 

 trade is beckoning to us, there is every logical reason why 

 we should assume control nf South .American trade. In 

 the meantime, at home we have a year of bumper crops, 

 we are the one great nation of the world not involved in 

 the great war. 



Eor us at this moment, when we are logically called 

 upon to put forth our best ettorts. and when we can gain 

 much from so doing, to hang back, sulking and frightened 

 by a bugaboo conjured up in our own imaginations and 

 n(jt elsewhere existent, would be for us to commit a 

 national foolishness of unprecedented proportions and 

 seriousness. 



At the >nmmcr meeting <if the Xational Association 

 III ( iardeners, helil in IJoston, .\ugust 1*^^ 1914, a com- 

 mittee was appointed to draft a resolution conveying 

 the sympathies of the members of the organization to 

 the European horticulturists on the terrible calamity 

 which has befallen them. 



The committee reports its resolution as follovys : 



"Whereas, Our felloivmcii engaged in the pursuit of 

 horticulture in its -rorioiis phases in the European coun- 

 tries are nozt.' surrounded b\' the horrors of a terrible 

 ■z^'ar. many of whom max be suffering from sorrowing 

 anguish for loss of kin on the battlefields. 



"Be it Resohrd. That the members of the Xational 

 .-Issociation of Gardeners convey to their brother horti- 

 culturists in Europe afflicted by the war, their heartfelt 

 sympathies on the catastrophe which has so suddenly 

 overtaken them : and that our prayer be that the Almighty 

 God in His infinite wisdom i^ill guide the instigators of 

 the appalling conflict now raging to a speedy termina- 

 tion of it and to everlasting peace. 



"Be it Further Resolved. That copies of these resolu- 

 tions be foncarded to the z-arions national horticultural 

 bodies in the sez'eral countries nozc at war, and spread- 

 on the records of the Xational .issociation of Gardeners." 



Ji'illiam X. Craig. 

 Duncan Finlayson, 

 Martin C. Ebel. 



