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THE GARDENERS' CHRONICLE OF AMERICA. 



THE 



GARDENERS^ CHRONICLE 



OF AMERICA. 



Published bv 



THE CHRONICLE PRESS, Inc. 



Office of Publication 



286 FIFTH AVE., NEW YORK 



MARTIN C. EBEL, Managing Editor 



EDITORIAL OFFICES— MADISON, N. J. 



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Entered as second class matter Nov. 3. 1914, at the Post Office at Xew 

 York, N. v., under the Act of March 3, 1879. 



Published on the 10th of each month. 



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For advertising rales apitly to 286 Piftli .\ve.. New York, X. Y. .Ml edi- 

 torial matter r-hould be addressed to ^I. C. Ebel, Editor, JIadison, X. J. 



OFFICIAL ORGAN OF 

 ASSOCIATION OF GARDENERS 



NAT I O N A L 



President, 

 J. W. EVERITT, 

 Glen Cove, N. Y. 



i'ice-Prcsidcnt, 



W. S. RENNIE, 



Ross, Cal. 



Treasitrcy, 

 JAMES STUART, 

 Mamaroneck, N. Y. 



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



TRUSTEES FOR 1914. 

 Peter Duff, Orange, N. }. : William Kleinheinz, Ogontz. Pa. ; Win. Tur- 

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

 Wyncote, Pa. 



DIRECTORS. 



To serve until 1916^Tlionias W. Logan, Jenkintuwn, Pa.; John F. Huss. 

 Hartford, Conn.; Jas. 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, HI. 



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. 



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

 Waite. Yonkers. N. Y.; William N. Craig, 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 



President, 



GUST.WE X. .AMRHYN, 



New Haven, Conn. 



JOHN McLaren. 



San Francisco, Cal. 

 HERMAN MERKEL, 

 New Y'ork, N. Y. 



Vice-Presidents, 

 CARL W. FOHN, 



Colorado Springs, Colo. 

 CHARLES HAIBLE, 



Xewburgh, N. Y. 



Secretar v-Trcas u rer, 



ROLA.XD W. COTTERILL, 



Seattle, Wash. 



JOHN HENDERSON, 

 Montreal, Canada. 



J. H. PROST, 

 Chicago, 111. 



Vol. XIX. 



JULY, 1915. 



Xo. 7. 



In her hook. The Well-Considered Garden, Airs, 

 Francis King devotes a chapter on The Question of the 

 Gardener, extracts of which, through the courtesy of 

 the author and her publisher are presented on page 311. 

 She frankly acknowledges the lack of appreciation the 

 average American manifests in the efforts of his 

 gardener, and concedes that a good cook or a speeding 

 chauffeur oftentimes receives greater consideration. Of 

 course, Mrs. King refers to the gardener on the large 

 estate, and not those employed on small home grounds. 

 We agree with her that the compensation of the class 

 she terms the Head Gardener should be at least one 

 hundred dollars per month, with his cottage and privi- 

 leges, while we realize that the compensation of what 

 she terms a "working gardener" must be governed to a 

 certain extent by their responsibilities. .As for the man- 

 ager or superintendent of the country estate, we fear 

 that the owners of these establishments are not as 

 thoughtful of them as they are of the heads of the de- 

 partments of their business enterprises, for many of 

 the latter with far less responsibilities than some of the 



estate managers must assume, are comfortably enough 

 situated through the recompense they receive to employ 

 gardeners. Few vocations call for greater ability than 

 that of the manager of a complete country estate. Os- 

 tensibly a gardener, he must have a knowledge of engi- 

 neering, construction work, farming, cattle, forestrv and 

 much else that is demanded in estate management, be- 

 sides executive ability and an ability to handle men. In 

 many instances he is even provided with a banking ac- 

 count with which to finance the operation of the estate. 

 And we know of gardeners who creditablv fulfill such 

 positions at figures well below the $150 mark. We 

 choose ti) ascribe such e.xisting conditions, first, to the 

 utter thoughtlessness on the part of the average owner 

 of an estate of the value of the service his superintendent 

 renders him as compared with the remuneration he re- 

 ceives for it ; second, that many' an estate owner takes 

 no further interest in his establishment than to have it 

 maintained as lavishly as that of his ne.xt door neighbor's 

 for appearance sake, but continuously begrudges the 

 expenditure involved in doing so. \\'e firmly believe, 

 however, that the gardener's effort is more appreciated 

 in this conntr}- today than it ever has been and that he 

 is gradually gaining the recognition due him. He is 

 indebted to the author of The IV ell-Considered Garden 

 for the attitude she assumed in his behalf in The Ques- 

 tion of the Gardener, and which undoubtedly will pro- 

 voke considerable discussion on this subject. 



The reports appearing in another column of flower 

 shows held recently as business promoters by two 

 progressive banks offer a suggestion that could profit- 

 ably be adopted by other business institutions as a means 

 of securing general publicity, and providing a method 

 for securing some effective advertising on an econom- 

 ical basis, that could not be obtainable from other sources. 

 We commend the holding of flower shows to our busi- 

 ness friends who may be engaged in enterprises catering 

 to the general public. They provide healthy and educa- 

 ticinal entertainment, and will bring patronage to any 

 institution that will provide an interesting show. This 

 applies more to the smaller cities than to our large metro- 

 politan districts, although even in large cities ri busi- 

 ness institution that will properly exploit the holding 

 of a flower show within its walls can draw large crowds 

 to it. 



THE FATHERLAND. 



W'luTe is tlie tiiiu iiiaii\ latlifihiinl? 



Is it where he by chance is born ? 



Doth not the yearning spirit sc<n-n 

 In .snch scant borders to be sijanncil ? 

 Oh, yes! his fatherland nuist he 

 As the liliie heaven wide and free! 



Ts it alnne where freedom is, 



\A'lieie '!od is God and man is man.' 

 Doth he not claim a broader span 



For the soul's love of home than this'.' 



Oh, yes. his fatherland mnst be 



As the bhie heaven wide and free! 



AA"here"er a human heart doth wear 

 Joy's myrtle-wreath or sorrow's gyves, 

 \Vhere'cr a human spirit strives 



After a life more true and fair. 



There is the true man's birthplace grand 



IIi> is a worhl-wide fatherland! 



Where'er a single slave doth pine. 



Where'er one man may help another — 

 Thank God for such a birthrisht. brother — 



That spot of earth is thine and mine! 



There is the true man's birthplace grand. 



His is a world-wide fatherland! 



— Juiiies RiixitcH Luirill. 



